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Nouns and adjectives have a rich morphology, albeit less ornate than verbs. They inflect for number, definiteness and possessedness, but not for case. Nouns have three numbers (singular, dual and plural) and masculine (''rȳ̌thrā qulzáthā'') and feminine (''rȳ̌thrā deiáthā'') genders. In third- and fourth-person possessed forms, Themsaran makes a distinction, realized tonally, between the ''absolute'' possessed form, which indicates a noun possessed by a pronoun, and the ''conjunct'' possessed form, used to indicate a possessive relationship between two nouns and agreeing with the gender of the possessor. | Nouns and adjectives have a rich morphology, albeit less ornate than verbs. They inflect for number (''dūrqé''), definiteness (''thrȳ́zamétīd'' 'remembered-ness') and possessedness (''ránmolíħe'' 'attribution'), but not for case. Nouns have three numbers (singular, dual and plural) and masculine (''rȳ̌thrā qulzáthā'') and feminine (''rȳ̌thrā deiáthā'') genders. In third- and fourth-person possessed forms, Themsaran makes a distinction, realized tonally, between the ''absolute'' possessed form, which indicates a noun possessed by a pronoun, and the ''conjunct'' possessed form, used to indicate a possessive relationship between two nouns and agreeing with the gender of the possessor. | ||
Proper names are indeclinable, i.e. they are always definite, and cannot be possessed. | Proper names are indeclinable, i.e. they are always definite, and cannot be possessed. | ||