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===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
{{Main|Elasian nouns}} | |||
Nouns are inflected for five cases - nominative ({{sc|nom}}), accusative ({{sc|acc}}), genitive ({{sc|gen}}), dative ({{sc|dat}}) and the instrumental ({{sc|ins}}). In addition to this, they are inflected for grammatical number. All of this is carried out by suffixes to the ''stem'' of the word; this is a predominantly agglutinative process, markers are tacked on after each other. A mild hint of fusion can be detected in certain suffixes — the genitive plural ''-un'' — appears to be related to both the genitive ''-o'' and the pluralisation marker ''-en''. | Nouns are inflected for five cases - nominative ({{sc|nom}}), accusative ({{sc|acc}}), genitive ({{sc|gen}}), dative ({{sc|dat}}) and the instrumental ({{sc|ins}}). In addition to this, they are inflected for grammatical number. All of this is carried out by suffixes to the ''stem'' of the word; this is a predominantly agglutinative process, markers are tacked on after each other. A mild hint of fusion can be detected in certain suffixes — the genitive plural ''-un'' — appears to be related to both the genitive ''-o'' and the pluralisation marker ''-en''. | ||