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 :''Main article: [[/Nouns|Hantza nouns]]''
-Pronouns and numerals can be included with nouns.
+The category of "noun" (more properly "nominal") in Hadza encompasses what are thought of in English as nouns, pronouns and numerals. Nouns are not marked for case and it is usually only animate nouns that are inflected for plurality.
-Nouns are not marked for case.
+Nouns are inflected for possession by prefixing. Indeed, in some cases this is mandatory (see [[#inalienable possession|inalienable possession]]).
+Some nouns are in fact verb phrases that have been nominalised by way of an enclitic.
 ===Verbs===