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''Main article:'' [[West Carpathian nouns]] | ''Main article:'' [[West Carpathian nouns]] | ||
Nouns may be declined by '''case''' and '''number'''. Standard West Carpathian has eleven cases and two numbers (singular and plural). There is no gender category in any of the Carpathian languages. The case marker must be added not only to the main noun, but also to its modifiers; e.g. '' | Nouns may be declined by '''case''' and '''number'''. Standard West Carpathian has eleven cases and two numbers (singular and plural). There is no gender category in any of the Carpathian languages. The case marker must be added not only to the main noun, but also to its modifiers; e.g. ''tarha kodu'' "big house" - ''tarhautu kodoutu'' "in a big house", literally "big-in house-in". '''Possession''' can only be marked via a possessive suffix; there are no separate possessive pronouns like English "my" or "yours". Pronouns gain suffixes just as nouns do. | ||
===Adjectives=== | |||
Adjectives are inflected in exactly the same way as nouns, and they must always agree in number and case with the noun they modify. All adjective can possibly have a comparative and superlative forms. The comparative is formed by adding a ''-ij-/-av-'' suffix to the stem, while superlative is formed with a suffix ''-m-'' added to a superlative form. For example, ''kuokku'' "long" - ''kūkkava'' "longer" - ''kūkkauma'' "the longest". | |||
===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||
''Main article:'' [[West Carpathian verbs]] | ''Main article:'' [[West Carpathian verbs]] | ||