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Plural 2B: There are a few (~2%) common gender nouns which, like Plural 2A, don’t add a suffix to make the plural. But they do umlaut the stem vowel. This class is notable for including the words for many family members such as '''moder''' (mother), '''fader''' (father), '''broder''' (brother), '''dotter''' (daughter). | Plural 2B: There are a few (~2%) common gender nouns which, like Plural 2A, don’t add a suffix to make the plural. But they do umlaut the stem vowel. This class is notable for including the words for many family members such as '''moder''' (mother), '''fader''' (father), '''broder''' (brother), '''dotter''' (daughter). | ||
The suffixes that mark definiteness, number and genitive case are agglutinated together onto the noun stem, which means that each noun will have a large number of potential endings. For example '''kvinnerns''' ''the womens | The suffixes that mark definiteness, number and genitive case are agglutinated together onto the noun stem, which means that each noun will have a large number of potential endings. For example '''kvinnerns''' ''the womens'' can be analyzed as '''kvinne-r-n-s''' -- made up of '''kvinne''' (stem) plus '''-er''' (plural ending) plus '''-n''' (enclitic definite article) plus '''-s''' (genitive case ending). In all, a noun can have up to 6 forms. | ||