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In Carpathian, adjectives have two declensions determined by the singular and plural nominative case inflections. Adjectives agree with nouns in number, gender, and case, but adjectives lack vocative and use their nominative forms in those cases. | In Carpathian, adjectives have two declensions determined by the singular and plural nominative case inflections. Adjectives agree with nouns in number, gender, and case, but adjectives lack vocative and use their nominative forms in those cases. | ||
A Carpathian innovation to the inflection of adjectives was the creation of a pronominal inflection by affixing forms of the object pronominal clitics to existing adjective forms. The inflection had a function resembling [[w:Predicate (grammar)|predication]] or [[w:Definiteness|definiteness]]: ''nawas'' “new” — ''nawasis'' “the new one”, “nawasmi” “I am new”. When declining for case, only the adjective changes: ''nawaimi'' “for me being new”. Pronominal forms often indicate something unique, and they are usually used with proper names: ''Kiršanajis mari'' “the Black Sea”, ''Nawājis Zelandijā'' “New Zealand”; as well as in scientific terminology: ''diskas | A Carpathian innovation to the inflection of adjectives was the creation of a pronominal inflection by affixing forms of the object pronominal clitics to existing adjective forms. The inflection had a function resembling [[w:Predicate (grammar)|predication]] or [[w:Definiteness|definiteness]]: ''nawas'' “new” — ''nawasis'' “the new one”, “nawasmi” “I am new”. When declining for case, only the adjective changes: ''nawaimi'' “for me being new”. Pronominal forms often indicate something unique, and they are usually used with proper names: ''Kiršanajis mari'' “the Black Sea”, ''Nawājis Zelandijā'' “New Zealand”; as well as in scientific terminology: ''diskas tvirtasis'' “hard disk”, ''ellis abitisis<sup>W</sup>/allis aukarisis<sup>E</sup>'' “common spruce”. | ||
===Pronouns=== | ===Pronouns=== | ||
Carpathian pronouns has a distinct grammatical category of [[w:Animacy|animacy]]: ''Kan waistai'' “Whom have you seen?” (animate), but ''ki waistai'' “What have you seen?” (inanimate). ''inakan aidaini'' “I have seen something” ''inaki waidaita'' “I have seen something”. | Carpathian pronouns has a distinct grammatical category of [[w:Animacy|animacy]]: ''Kan waistai'' “Whom have you seen?” (animate), but ''ki waistai'' “What have you seen?” (inanimate). ''inakan aidaini'' “I have seen something” ''inaki waidaita'' “I have seen something”. | ||