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Nouns can be preceded by a definite article ''ein''.
Nouns can be preceded by a definite article ''ein''.
=====Gender=====
=====Gender=====
Nouns have two genders, animate and inanimate. Nouns of each gender take their respective verb endings and pronouns in {{PAGENAME}}.
Nouns have two genders, masculine and feminine. Nouns of each gender take their respective verb endings and pronouns in {{PAGENAME}}.


=====Number=====
=====Number=====
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*Dative: indirect object, some adverbial expressions, possessor after {{PAGENAME}}
*Dative: indirect object, some adverbial expressions, possessor after {{PAGENAME}}
*Genitive: it's your bog-standard genitive case.  
*Genitive: it's your bog-standard genitive case.  
**The genitive is often "hyphenated" to the word it modifies because of its ambiguity. In particular, the genitive noun ''must'' be hyphenated to the head noun whenever the genitive noun is not modified by an adjective. Cf. similar rules for compounds in [[Trây]].
**The genitive is often "hyphenated" to the word it modifies because of its ambiguity.
*Predicative: predicate
 
In Modern Wiobian, there is no number and case inflection (the dative remains in fossilized expressions).


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