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Nouns (''véliach'') and adjectives (''astūvellách'') have a rich morphology, albeit less ornate than verbs. They inflect for number (''ðūré'') and state. State categories include definiteness (''thrȳ́zamétīd'' 'rememberedness'), possessedness (''ránmolíħe'' 'attribution') and predicative state (''dylvanlíħe''). Nouns have singular (''cḗminnáth''), dual (''líntáth'') and plural (''ūráth'') numbers, and masculine (''qulzáth'') and feminine ('' | Nouns (''véliach'') and adjectives (''astūvellách'') have a rich morphology, albeit less ornate than verbs. They inflect for number (''ðūré'') and state. State categories include definiteness (''thrȳ́zamétīd'' 'rememberedness'), possessedness (''ránmolíħe'' 'attribution') and predicative state (''dylvanlíħe''). Nouns have singular (''cḗminnáth''), dual (''líntáth'') and plural (''ūráth'') numbers, and masculine (''qulzáth'') and feminine (''dēáth'') genders. In third-person possessed forms, Themsarian 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. | ||