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===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
====Inflection==== | ====Inflection==== | ||
A | A Natalician noun has no gender. | ||
There are eight regular inflectional affixes in Natalician. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|+Inflectional affixes in English | |||
!Affix | |||
!Grammatical category | |||
!Mark | |||
!Part of speech | |||
|- | |||
| -(v)ev/-(v)ov | |||
|Grammatical number|Number | |||
|plural | |||
|nouns | |||
|- | |||
| -'(i)n/ | |||
|[[Grammatical case|Case]] | |||
|[[Genitive case|genitive]] | |||
|[[noun]]s and [[noun phrase]]s, pronouns (marks [[Independent possessive pronoun|independent genitive]]) | |||
|- | |||
| -ing | |||
|[[Grammatical aspect|Aspect]] | |||
|[[Continuous and progressive aspects|progressive]] | |||
|[[gerund]]s or [[participle]]s | |||
|- | |||
| -en/-ed | |||
|[[Grammatical aspect|Aspect]] | |||
|[[Perfect (grammar)|perfect]] | |||
|[[verb]]s | |||
|- | |||
| -ed/-t | |||
|[[Grammatical tense|Tense]] | |||
|[[Past tense|past]] ([[Simple aspect|simple]]) | |||
|[[verb]]s | |||
|- | |||
| -s | |||
|[[Grammatical person|Person]], number, aspect, tense | |||
|[[Grammatical person|3rd person]] singular present [[Indicative mood|indicative]] | |||
|[[verb]]s | |||
|- | |||
| -er | |||
|[[Degree of comparison]] | |||
|[[comparative]] | |||
|[[adjective]]s and [[adverbs]] | |||
|- | |||
| -est | |||
|[[Degree of comparison]] | |||
|[[superlative]] | |||
|[[adjective]]s and [[adverbs]] | |||
|} | |||
Through its presence or absence, the plural ending shows distinctions of [[Grammatical number|number]]. | Through its presence or absence, the plural ending shows distinctions of [[Grammatical number|number]]. | ||