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How do these work with other prefixes? With plural prefixes, the possessive suffix is used if there is no article: '''wydo niselivyd''', "[the] truth of concepts." Otherwise: '''paneht ilid niselivy''', "[the] strength of the concepts."
How do these work with other prefixes? With plural prefixes, the possessive suffix is used if there is no article: '''wydo niselivyd''', "[the] truth of concepts." Otherwise: '''paneht ilid niselivy''', "[the] strength of the concepts."
=== Gender===
Teonaht once exhibited a morphology of gender, but that has been effaced by time. Nouns and articles do not reflect gender by themselves, whereas pronouns do. Animals, however, have a whole range of gendered categories expressed in an adjective that follows the noun; these vary according to the type of animal but are far from being consistent. Click here if you want to see that brief list of male and female beasts.


==Syntax==
==Syntax==
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