Verse:Mwail/Old Gloob: Difference between revisions
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Nouns are divided into three classes/genders: | Nouns are divided into three classes/genders: | ||
*Animate nouns: Many animate nouns have all three numbers. Animate nouns include not only humans or animals, but also body parts, some plants, "active" natural processes such as rain, and heavenly bodies. | *Animate nouns: Many animate nouns have all three numbers. Animate nouns include not only humans or animals, but also many body parts, some plants, "active" natural processes such as rain, and heavenly bodies. | ||
*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. | *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 nouns: Singulative and plurative abstract nouns denote specific instantiations or manifestations of the abstract concept. (So a noun meaning 'kindness' in the collective could be rendered as 'act of kindness' in the singulative.) | *Abstract nouns: Singulative and plurative abstract nouns denote specific instantiations or manifestations of the abstract concept. (So a noun meaning 'kindness' in the collective could be rendered as 'act of kindness' in the singulative.) | ||