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Nouns have 8 inflectional cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, locative, ablative, equative, translative), and have several declensions as in Quenya. The accusative is only used for definite objects, as in Tamil. | Nouns have 8 inflectional cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, locative, ablative, equative, translative), and have several declensions as in Quenya. The accusative is only used for definite objects, as in Tamil. | ||
====Consonant nouns==== | ====Consonant nouns==== | ||
Nouns ending in ''-ai'' add ''-y-'' to the stem when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel | Nouns ending in ''-ai'' add ''-y-'' to the stem when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel: ''vezhai'' 'book' > ''vezhaiyai'' 'of a book' | ||
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