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==Pluralisation== | ==Pluralisation== | ||
Nouns do not change for case, that is, they are not marked to indicate whether they are the subject or object of a verb. Many nouns are not marked for the plural either; only grammatically animate nouns are pluralised in Hantza. | |||
Examples grammatically inanimate nouns are: | |||
*''wara'' - "sand" | |||
*''tzan'' - "egg" or "eggs" | |||
*''domo'' - "flower" or "flowers" | |||
Grammatically animate nouns are marked as plural by the suffix ''-it''. This deletes any final vowel and nouns ending in a glottal stop replace it with ''-kat''. | |||
*''tzaka'' and ''tzakit'' - "man, person" and "men, people" | |||
*''ohat'' and ''ohatit'' - "my son" and "my sons" | |||
*''sing'' and ''singit'' - "star" and "stars" | |||
*''mazzà'' and ''mazzakat'' - "fish" (sg) and "fish" (pl) | |||
==Possession== | ==Possession== | ||
Nouns that are not possessed nouns are unmarked while possessed nouns are marked by a prefix for one of the grammatical persons listed below: | Nouns that are not possessed nouns are unmarked while possessed nouns are marked by a prefix for one of the grammatical persons listed below: | ||
*First person singular: ''o-'' | |||
*First person singular | |||
*First person plural | *First person plural | ||
*Second person singular | *Second person singular | ||