Aoma: Difference between revisions
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*feminine '''u''' | *feminine '''u''' | ||
*neuter '''i''' | *neuter '''i''' | ||
There are no articles (fused into prepositions), but definiteness is indicated by lengthening the last vowels: ''tymy'' (a man) → ''tymyy'' (the man). Dative is always thought as definite, but sometimes indefiniteness is emphasized by leaving the second ''e'' off. | |||
====''Declension''==== | ====''Declension''==== | ||
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Genitive forms do not agree with all of their heads' forms, only the gender and number. In older grammar, they would act like adjectives ending in ''i'', but due to confusion with some true adjectives, they are nowadays left more uninflected. | Genitive forms of nouns do not agree with all of their heads' forms, only the gender and number. In older grammar, they would act like adjectives ending in ''i'', but due to confusion with some true adjectives, they are nowadays left more uninflected. | ||
On top of the five basic cases, Aoma has got two partial cases: | |||
*Some locative forms ending in ''xu'' exist: ''ketixu'' (in the town), ''gehixu'' (in the house, at home) | |||
**There is also a form ''ogehixu'' which means "outside the house" | |||
*Divine gender has some time nouns with temporal cases and so many other specialities that they once formed their own gender (something between Div & N). | |||
**Definite temporals ''(h)alaax'' "today" and ''haloox'' "during daytime" | |||
Example ''hal|a'' (day), endings: | |||
{|class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" | |||
|- | |||
! | |||
!NOM | |||
!ACC | |||
!DAT | |||
!GEN | |||
!TEMP | |||
|- | |||
!SG | |||
|a | |||
|ak | |||
|aee | |||
|ang | |||
|ax | |||
|- | |||
!PL | |||
|ol | |||
|ok | |||
|oee | |||
|ong | |||
|ox | |||
|} | |||
===Adjectives=== | ===Adjectives=== | ||