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 Some roots exist in two categories, for example the verbal clitic "ni" which can also appear as an independent particle under certain circumstances – see [[#Verbal morphology]].
-Substantive roots are generally treated and used as nouns, and turned into adjectives or verbs using appropriate clitics or affixes.
+Substantive roots are generally treated and used as nouns, and turned into adjectives or verbs using appropriate clitics or affixes, but see [[#Adjectival morphology]] for further detail.
-However, the generic adjectival suffix ''-al'' is generally omitted unless it is needed to disambiguate meaning, because adjectives follow nouns, and a noun following a noun is taken to modify that noun much as an adjective would. This is epitomised in the name of the language, which hypercorrectly would be *''Cân Gertal'', but is instead ''Cân Gert''. This could be variously analysed as "short language" or "language of brevity".
-Thus for example ''sen'' normally means "age, great age", and ''senal'' would mean "old, aged", but it is perfectly acceptable to use just ''sen'' for "old, aged" if the meaning is clear. For example, to say "I am twenty years old", you would normally say ''Mi fît blîn sen'' rather than ''Mi fît blîn senal''.
 ===Proper nouns===