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|'The tea you drank'}} | |'The tea you drank'}} | ||
Word order is much more free for nouns and noun phrases. Adjectives and genitives may either proceed or follow a noun, although they adjectives generally follow, whilst genitives generally proceed. Prepositions always proceed their noun, whilst postpositions, which are far less common, always follow. | Word order is much more free for nouns and noun phrases. Adjectives and genitives may either proceed or follow a noun (e.g. '''''formun cōmus''''' or '''''cōmus formun''''', both 'the warm house;' '''''umae menter''''' or '''''menter umae''''', both 'my mother's sibling'), although they adjectives generally follow, whilst genitives generally proceed. Prepositions always proceed their noun, whilst postpositions, which are far less common, always follow. Due to agreement in gender, case, and number between nouns and adjectives, additional nouns may be inserted between a noun and its adjective without changing the meaning, in what is called [[w:Hyperbaton|hyperbaton]] | ||
{{interlinear | box=yes | style2 = color:DarkMagenta; | top='''''īdē arde tivī iūre''''' | |||
| īd-ē ard-e t-ivī iūr-e | |||
| listen-IMP person-VOC.SG 1SG.PRO-DAT good-T.VOC.SG | |||
|'Listen to me good fellow!'}} | |||
==Nouns== | ==Nouns== | ||