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====Definiteness==== | ====Definiteness==== | ||
Definite forms are used as the vocative. Definiteness is used more often than in English: they are often found with abstract or collective sense. | Definite forms are used as the vocative. Definiteness is used more often than in English: they are often found with abstract or collective sense. | ||
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====First declension==== | =====First declension===== | ||
:''See also [[User: | :''See also [[User:IlL/Themsaran/Nominal subparadigms|tables for declension subparadigms]].'' | ||
The first declension consists primarily of masculine nouns. Nouns ending in a consonant may contain an epenthetic ''y'' to break up forbidden consonant clusters, particularly those ending in resonants. The ''ħ''- and ''q''- stem nouns always end in ''-ā'', and this mutates to ''-aħ-''/''-aq'' before a ending beginning with a vowel, and exhibits the form ''-aC-'' before an ending beginning with any consonant. (Some nouns ending in ''-ng'' are underlyingly (and alternate with) ''nħ-'' or ''nq-'' stems.) The ''h''-stems have a long vowel ending by default, which shortens in front of a consonant ending, along with gemination of any fricative-onset endings. The j-stem nouns, ending in ''-i'', display the ''-i'' before a possessive suffix beginning with a consonant, and a ''-j'' before one beginning with a vowel. | The first declension consists primarily of masculine nouns. Nouns ending in a consonant may contain an epenthetic ''y'' to break up forbidden consonant clusters, particularly those ending in resonants. The ''ħ''- and ''q''- stem nouns always end in ''-ā'', and this mutates to ''-aħ-''/''-aq'' before a ending beginning with a vowel, and exhibits the form ''-aC-'' before an ending beginning with any consonant. (Some nouns ending in ''-ng'' are underlyingly (and alternate with) ''nħ-'' or ''nq-'' stems.) The ''h''-stems have a long vowel ending by default, which shortens in front of a consonant ending, along with gemination of any fricative-onset endings. The j-stem nouns, ending in ''-i'', display the ''-i'' before a possessive suffix beginning with a consonant, and a ''-j'' before one beginning with a vowel. | ||
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====Second declension==== | =====Second declension===== | ||
The second declension consists of mainly feminine nouns. | The second declension consists of mainly feminine nouns. | ||
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====Third declension==== | =====Third declension===== | ||
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