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| ===Nouns=== | | ===Nouns=== |
| Nouns (''véliach'') and adjectives (''astūvellách'') have a rich morphology, albeit less ornate than verbs. They inflect for number (''ðūré'') and state and belong to genders, which interact with definiteness in a complex manner. State categories include definiteness (''thrȳ́zamétīd'' 'rememberedness'), possessedness (''ránmolíħe'' 'attribution') and predicative state (''dylvanlíħe''). Nouns have collective, singulative, and plurative numbers, and animate, inanimate, and abstract/honorific 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. | | Nouns are inflected according to the native gender-number-state system. They also fall into several declension patterns. |
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| Proper names are indeclinable, i.e. they are always definite, and cannot be possessed.
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| ====Summary of the gender-number-state system==== | | ====Summary of the gender-number-state system==== |
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| *Honorific nouns: Honorific nouns are essentially abstract nouns made countable, i.e. abstract nouns in singulative and plurative forms, and their morphology generalized to the collective distinction. | | *Honorific nouns: Honorific nouns are essentially abstract nouns made countable, i.e. abstract nouns in singulative and plurative forms, and their morphology generalized to the collective distinction. |
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| ====Number====
| | 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. |
| Dual is used for body parts (e.g. ''timaqā́r'' 'eyes') as well as opposing or complementary concepts. The associative suffix ''-yng-'' may be combined with the dual to form the associative dual (e.g. ''rommyngár'' 'two sides/pages of a paper', ''vōligyngáir'' 'marriage').
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| ====Definiteness====
| | Proper names are indeclinable, i.e. they are always definite, and cannot be possessed. |
| Definiteness is used more often than the English counterpart 'the': they are often found in abstract senses (e.g. ''cullī́dī'' 'arrogance') or collective senses (e.g. ''cárē'' 'the human being', i.e. 'man'). Definite forms are also used as the vocative (e.g. ''hā mā́rḗ'' 'O tree!').
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| It should be noted that noun forms with possessive suffixes are considered definite, as are proper nouns.
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| ====Predicative state====
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| The predicative state has the basic meaning of 'is an X' (the definite state is used for 'is ''the'' X'), and serve as predicative complements of verbs (e.g. of becoming, state of being, perception) as well. Adjectives agree with nouns predicative state.
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| ====Declension==== | | ====Declension==== |