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For non-human things with no clear gender(yes, including animals, grammatical gender in Tũka does not necessarily correspond with sex), the genders '''inanimate''' or '''animate''' are used. Although inanimate and animate technically only mean things that do or do not move naturally, animacy in Tũka is mostly used to refer to alive or dead things, with the animacy of the adjective sometimes semantically affecting the word, e.g. ''lumũ tāt''(lit. ''inanimate leaf'') means "autumn leaf", as autumn leaves are usually categorised by their yellow-orange colour that signifies death. | For non-human things with no clear gender(yes, including animals, grammatical gender in Tũka does not necessarily correspond with sex), the genders '''inanimate''' or '''animate''' are used. Although inanimate and animate technically only mean things that do or do not move naturally, animacy in Tũka is mostly used to refer to alive or dead things, with the animacy of the adjective sometimes semantically affecting the word, e.g. ''lumũ tāt''(lit. ''inanimate leaf'') means "autumn leaf", as autumn leaves are usually categorised by their yellow-orange colour that signifies death. | ||
===Number=== | ===Number=== | ||
Unlike in English, where only | Unlike in English, where only singular and plural declensions exist, Tũka uses three declensions: '''singular''', '''dual''' and '''plural''', in this case "plural" meaning three or more of an item, and all words have to be distinguished by a number particle, such as ''i tũka''("Tũka language"), lit. {{sc|sg}}.{{sc|nom}}, though ''i'' is only in nominative. In accusative, ''u'' is used and in absolutive ''ī'' is used. | ||
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|+ Tũka grammatical number particles | |+ Tũka grammatical number particles | ||