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Nouns inflect for number and definiteness. Like in English, proper nouns don't take the definite article. Attributive adjectives agree with nouns in number, but predicate adjectives do not. Knench has lost grammatical gender and the construct state, although animates still have natural gender. | Nouns inflect for number and definiteness. Like in English, proper nouns don't take the definite article. Attributive adjectives agree with nouns in number, but predicate adjectives do not. Knench has lost grammatical gender and the construct state, although animates still have natural gender. | ||
==== Number and definiteness ==== | ==== Number and definiteness ==== | ||
{{PAGENAME}} has regularized all plurals to ''- | {{PAGENAME}} has regularized all plurals to ''-ə'' (from a merger of Ancient Knench ''-īn'' > ''*-ī'' and ''-ūδ''). ''-u'' nouns become ''-lə'' in the plural: ''þebu, þeblə'' 'a world, worlds'. | ||
Nouns inflect for definiteness, as follows: | Nouns inflect for definiteness, as follows: | ||
*Singular: -əs (after C) or - | *Singular: -əs (after C) or -sə (after V), (from haz-ze and haz-zū) | ||
** -u nouns become -wəs: ''abu, abwəs'' 'an apple, the apple' | ** -u nouns become -wəs: ''abu, abwəs'' 'an apple, the apple' | ||
*Plural: -il, replacing the plural suffix ''- | *Plural: -il, replacing the plural suffix ''-ə'' if any (from ha-2ili), -u + -il > -ul | ||
** ''ablr, abul'' 'apples, the apples' | ** ''ablr, abul'' 'apples, the apples' | ||
Words ending in a nasal or R-colored vowel add an intrusive R between the final vowel and the plural suffix | Words ending in a nasal or R-colored vowel add an intrusive R between the final vowel and the plural suffix. | ||
* ''pdą'' 'a tree', '' | * ''pdą'' 'a tree', ''pdąrə'' 'trees' | ||
* ''lú'' 'a god', '' | * ''lú'' 'a god', ''lúwə'' 'gods' | ||
Some irregular plurals: ''penš, plenš'' = human | Some irregular plurals: ''penš, plenš'' = human | ||