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 Nouns can belong to three different genders (''jensi'', sg. ''jens''): '''masculine''' (''bátursyás''), '''feminine''' (''ninfasyás''), or '''neuter''' (''udeterás'').
-Nouns can be categorized as following one of six different declensions (''kilisi'', sg. and pl.); in most cases, each declension only contains nouns of a single gender.
+Nouns can be categorized as following one of six different declensions (''kilisi'', sg. and pl.); in most cases, each declension (except the fourth) only contains nouns of a single gender.<br/>
+All declensions are productive, although the majority of contemporary loanwords is assigned to one of the first three. Historically, the termination (and not the noun class) of the original word determines the declension, with original ''-e'' words being mostly assigned to the neuter fifth declension unless explicitely animate (mostly given names or nouns referring to humans borrowed from Ligurian), in which case they are either masculine or feminine fourth declension nouns. Words ending in a back rounded vowel or in a voiced stop in the donor language in most cases end in ''-i'' and are sixth declension nouns; this is again mostly noticeable in the plethora of Ligurian loans (such as e.g. Lig. ''mandillo'' {{IPA|[mãˈdilu]}} borrowed as ''mangdili'' {{IPA|[mæŋˈdili]}} "handkerchief").
 ====1st declension (masculine)====
 The first declension (''kilisi hancás'') of Lifashian contains most masculine nouns, inherited or borrowed. The nominative singular, citation form, ends in ''-as'', ''-s'', ''-sy'', or has no ending.