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If all nouns in the sentence are inanimate, then the verb must be inflected as having an unspecified subject. Inanimate nouns may use instrumental marker ''-re/-r-'', which is similar to prepositions "with" and "by" in English. Animate nouns can only use the commitative marker ''-va'', but its meaning is different. | *If all nouns in the sentence are inanimate, then the verb must be inflected as having an unspecified subject. Inanimate nouns may use '''instrumental''' marker ''-re/-r-'', which is similar to prepositions "with" and "by" in English. Animate nouns can only use the '''commitative''' marker ''-va'', but its meaning is different. | ||
*'''Possessedness''' is marked by the suffix ''-(i)u'' on the possessed noun, unlike English, which marks the possessor instead: ''Ammi imiru'' "Ammi's flower". These suffixes are added after a number suffix. If a possessed noun is animate, a honorific suffix -ci(n)- is sometimes added, when a speaker wants to show respect to that noun (usually a person: ''emiciri'' "my mother"). The suffix can be used without the possessive marker, but it is uncommon. In Teivo hia and formerly in Teivo qii also an inalienable possessive marker ''-o'' had existed, but it became obsolete nowadays even in Teivo hia. | |||
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! Singular | |||
! Dual | |||
! Paucal</br>Plural | |||
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! 1<sup>st</sup> | |||
| -ri | |||
| -ii | |||
| -cii | |||
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! 2<sup>nd</sup> | |||
| -ru | |||
| -ovi | |||
| -rci | |||
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! 3<sup>rd</sup> proximate | |||
| -iu | |||
| -viu | |||
| -itu | |||
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! 3<sup>rd</sup> obviate | |||
| -u | |||
| -vo | |||
| -to | |||
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===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||