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 ===Nouns===
-Nouns in Nayse are divided by gender, but gender, in most cases, doesn't affect how the words are formed. Number also affects nouns, but only in the form of the presence, or lack, of a suffix.
+Nouns in Nayse are affected by definiteness, plurality, and gender.
+====Definiteness====
+Definiteness differentiates between nouns that are specific and identifiable and nouns that are not.
+{| class="bluetable lightbluebg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; width: 700px;"
+! colspan="3"  | Definiteness
+|-
+! style="text-align:center;" |
+! style="text-align:center;" |Prefix
+! style="text-align:center;" |Example
+|-
+! style="" |Indefinite
+| (none)
+| jex (a tree)
+|-
+! style="" |Definite
+| ‘al-’
+| aljex (the tree)
+|-
+! style="" |[[w:Construct_state|Construct]]
+| ‘e-’ (‘eh-’ for words beginning with a vowel)
+| jex esær (the tree of the world)
+|}
 ====Plurality====
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 | 1
 | (none)
-| jæ (I or me)
+| jex (1 tree)
 |-
 ! style="" |Dual
 | 2
-| ‘-z’ (‘-ez’ for words ending in ‘s’ or 'z')
+| ‘-z’ (‘-ez’ for words ending in ‘s’, 'x', or 'z')
-| jæz (we, meaning of me and one other)
+| jexez (2 trees)
 |-
 ! style="" |Paucal
 | 3 - 5
-| ‘-za’ (‘-eza’ for words ending in ‘s’ or 'z')
+| ‘-za’ (‘-eza’ for words ending in ‘s’, 'x' or 'z')
-| jæza (we, meaning of me and two to four others)
+| jexeza (3 - 5 trees)
 |-
 ! style="" |Plural
 | 6+
 | reduplication (the word is repeated)
-| jæjæ (we, meaning of me and five or more others)
+| jexjex (6 or more trees)
 |}
+====Gender====
+When a noun of personal or animate gender becomes, or is referred to as, inanimate, the prefix 'te-' ('teh-', if the word begins with a vowel) is added to the word. If the noun being modified is already modified by definiteness, the gender modifier follows the definiteness modifier.
+*'''Example:''' tejex (a dead tree)
+*'''Example:''' altejex(the dead tree)
+*'''Example:''' tejex esær(the dead tree of the world)
 ===Pronouns===