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Nouns inflect for number and definiteness. Adjectives agree with nouns in number. Cubrite has lost grammatical gender and the construct state, although animates still have natural gender.
Nouns inflect for number and definiteness. Adjectives agree with nouns in number. Cubrite has lost grammatical gender and the construct state, although animates still have natural gender.
==== Number and definiteness ====
==== Number and definiteness ====
{{PAGENAME}} has regularized all plurals to ''-r'' (from a merger of Ancient Cubrite ''-īm'' > ''*-ī'' and ''-ōδ''). ''-u'' nouns become ''-lr'' in the plural: ''þebu, þeblr'' 'a world, worlds'.
{{PAGENAME}} has regularized all plurals to ''-r'' (from a merger of Ancient Cubrite ''-īm'' > ''*-ī'' and ''-ūδ''). ''-u'' nouns become ''-lr'' in the plural: ''þebu, þeblr'' 'a world, worlds'.


Words ending in a nasal vowel or an R-colored vowel add an intrusive R between the final vowel and the plural suffix: ''plą'' 'tree', ''pląrør'' 'trees'.
Words ending in a nasal vowel or an R-colored vowel add an intrusive R between the final vowel and the plural suffix: ''plą'' 'tree', ''pląrør'' 'trees'.