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===Nominal Morphology=== | ===Nominal Morphology=== | ||
Nouns are formed with the following structure: (1) personal prefix - (2) case prefix - (3) base. | |||
The following examples show how a change of personal prefix can be used to indicate definiteness. | |||
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg" | |||
|- | |||
! Personal Prefix !! Case Prefix !! Base | |||
|- | |||
| '''ng-'''<br />SPECIFIC- || '''-e-'''<br />-ABSOLUTIVE- || '''-mbuda'''<br />-house | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="20" | '''''ngembuda''''' "a house / houses" | |||
|} | |||
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg" | |||
|- | |||
! Personal Prefix !! Case Prefix !! Base | |||
|- | |||
| '''t-'''<br />3E- || '''-e-'''<br />-ABSOLUTIVE- || '''-mbuda'''<br />-house | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="20" | '''''tembuda''''' "the house(s)" | |||
|} | |||
Changing the case prefix results in a noun form with a different role in the sentence, for example: | |||
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg" | |||
|- | |||
! Personal Prefix !! Case Prefix !! Base | |||
|- | |||
| '''t-'''<br />3E.DEFINITE- || '''-ua-'''<br />-DATIVE- || '''-mbuda'''<br />-house | |||
|- | |||
| colspan="20" | '''''tuambuda''''' "to the house(s)" | |||
|} | |||
====Case Prefixes==== | |||
Nouns in {{PAGENAME}} can inflect into four cases grammatical cases. | |||
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="font-weight:bold;" | |||
|- style="font-weight:normal;" | |||
! Case | |||
! Prefix | |||
! Example | |||
! Meaning | |||
|- | |||
| style="font-weight:normal;" | Absolutive | |||
| -e- | |||
| style="font-style:italic;" | tembuda | |||
| style="font-weight:normal;" | "the house(s)" | |||
|- | |||
| style="font-weight:normal;" | Ergative | |||
| -a- | |||
| style="font-style:italic;" | tambuda | |||
| style="font-weight:normal;" | "by the house(s)" | |||
|- | |||
| style="font-weight:normal;" | Dative | |||
| -ua- | |||
| style="font-style:italic;" | tuambuda | |||
| style="font-weight:normal;" | "to the house(s)" | |||
|- | |||
| style="font-weight:normal;" | Genitive | |||
| -o- | |||
| style="font-style:italic;" | tombuda | |||
| style="font-weight:normal;" | "of the house(s)" | |||
|} | |||
===Verbal Morphology=== | ===Verbal Morphology=== | ||
===Morphology of Modifiers=== | ===Morphology of Modifiers=== | ||