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====Cases==== | ====Cases==== | ||
Af Mexee has nominative, absolutive, and genitive cases. Case is indicated primarily by tonation. | Af Mexee has nominative, absolutive, and genitive cases. Case is indicated primarily by tonation. | ||
*Absolutive: The default citation form of a noun. If a high tone is present, feminine nouns often have it finally, while masculine nouns tend to have it penultimately. However, this is not a rule but only a general tendency. | |||
*Nominative: Formed by removing any high tones in the word. | |||
*Genitive: Any high tones in the word are removed, and a high tone is added to the final syllable. | |||
*Plural: Any high tones in the singular are removed and replaced by those of the plural suffixes (which follow the same case patterns as the singular). | |||
===Particles=== | ===Particles=== | ||