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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 | {{PAGENAME}} has regularized most 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: | ||
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Examples: | Examples: | ||
*'' | *''śadə'' /ɹ̝̊adə/ = an apartment/flat | ||
*''śadrəs'' /ɹ̝̊adrəs/ = the flat | *''śadrəs'' /ɹ̝̊adrəs/ = the flat | ||
*'' | *''śadrə'' /ɹ̝̊adrə/ = flats | ||
*''śadril'' /ɹ̝̊adrɪl/ = the flats | *''śadril'' /ɹ̝̊adrɪl/ = the flats | ||
*'' | *''śadə kruw'' = a big flat | ||
*'' | *''śadrəs kruw'' = the big flat | ||
*'' | *''śadrə krulə'' = big flats | ||
*''śadril | *''śadril krulə'' = the big flats | ||
''-ma'' nouns from Greek become ''-mat'' nouns: ''þemat, þematas, þematr, þematil'' 'topic, theme'. | ''-ma'' nouns from Greek become ''-mat'' nouns: ''þemat, þematas, þematr, þematil'' 'topic, theme'. | ||