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==== Number ==== | ==== Number ==== | ||
Unlike Minhast and Nankôre, Nahónda explicitly marks number on nouns with the affix ''-pi''. This affix is a borrowing from Lakota. To indicate collectives, particularly of animals, reduplication is employed, e.g. ''dagozloba'' "elk" → ''dagogozloba'' "a herd of elk". Collectives can be further pluralized, e.g. ''dagogozloba'' → ''dagogozloba<u>pi</u>'' "elk herds". | |||
==== Case ==== | ==== Case ==== | ||
Nahónda distinguishes two core cases, agent and patient, and one oblique case, the genitive. The Patient case is unmarked and serves as the direct object of most transitive verbs, and the subject of stative verbs. The Genitive serves not only to mark possessors, but as the recipient with donor verbs, e.g. ''wíkha Džalo-da nitsátačeyo'' "Give Dzhalo the rope", the hearer of speech verbs, e.g. ''Enane-da kelómatačeyelo'' "Speak to Mother!", as well as the direct or indirect object of transitive verbs belonging to other semantic types, e.g. Goal, Experiencer, etc. | Nahónda distinguishes two core cases, agent and patient, and one oblique case, the genitive. The Patient case is unmarked and serves as the direct object of most transitive verbs, and the subject of stative verbs. The Genitive serves not only to mark possessors, but as the recipient with donor verbs, e.g. ''wíkha Džalo-da nitsátačeyo'' "Give Dzhalo the rope", the hearer of speech verbs, e.g. ''Enane-da kelómatačeyelo'' "Speak to Mother!", as well as the direct or indirect object of transitive verbs belonging to other semantic types, e.g. Goal, Experiencer, etc. | ||