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 For other words, the short plural is used as a collective noun. Collective nouns following other patterns also exist and are mostly relics of earlier plural formations.
-====Cases====
+====Case====
-Af Mexee has nominative, absolutive, and genitive cases. Case is indicated primarily by tonation.
+Af Mexee has absolutive, nominative, and genitive cases. Case is indicated primarily by tonation.
 *'''Absolutive''': The default citation form of a noun. If a high tone is present, feminine nouns often have it finally, while masculine nouns tend to have it penultimately. However, this is not a rule but only a general tendency.
 *'''Nominative''': Formed by removing any high tones in the word.
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 ::e.g. ''dhár naagh<b>eéd</b>'' "women's clothes (in general)" vs. ''dhár naág'' "clothes of a (specific) woman"
 *'''Plural''': Any high tones in the singular are removed and replaced by those of the plural suffixes (which follow the same case patterns as the singular).
-*'''Modifiers''': When a noun has a k/t modifier with a tone, only the tone of the modifier is affected. If the modifier does not have its own tone, the word is treated as a unit.
+*'''K/t determiners''': When a noun has a k/t determiner with a tone, only the tone of the determiner is affected. If it has no high tone in the absolutive (for example, the definite article), the word behaves as it would without the determiner.
 ===Particles===