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The equivalent of the definite article in Tei is a classifier (as in Hmong), but it's placed after the noun and carries the case marker. The noun before a classifier is prescriptively in the genitive case, but it's often dropped. | The equivalent of the definite article in Tei is a classifier (as in Hmong), but it's placed after the noun and carries the case marker. The noun before a classifier is prescriptively in the genitive case, but it's often dropped. | ||
* ''Nßäht koþem'' 'of the tree' | * ''Nßäht koþem'' (presc. and in older Tei ''Nßähtem koþem'') 'of the tree' | ||
* ''Nßähtem'' 'of a tree' | * ''Nßähtem'' 'of a tree' | ||
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