Verse:Mwail/Old Gloob: Difference between revisions
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====Summary of the gender-number-state system==== | ====Summary of the gender-number-state system==== | ||
There is no definiteness distinction in the collective. | |||
Nouns are divided into three classes/genders: | |||
*Animate nouns: have all three numbers. | |||
*Inanimate nouns: The countable inanimate nouns have all three numbers. Some inanimate nouns are mass nouns, and thus only have a generic number and a singulative number. | |||
*Abstract/honorific nouns: Honorific nouns are essentially abstract nouns made countable, i.e. abstract nouns in singulative and plurative forms. | |||
====Number==== | ====Number==== | ||