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===Nouns and adjectives===
===Nouns and adjectives===
Nouns inflect for number and definiteness. Adjectives agree with nouns in number.
Nouns inflect for number and definiteness. Adjectives agree with nouns in number. Cubrite has lost grammatical gender and the construct state, although animates still have natural gender.


{{PAGENAME}} has regularized all plurals to ''-r'' (from a merger of Ancient Cubrite ''-īm'' > ''*-ī'' and ''-ōδ''). It also lost grammatical gender and the construct state, although animates still have natural gender.
{{PAGENAME}} has regularized all plurals to ''-r'' (from a merger of Ancient Cubrite ''-īm'' > ''*-ī'' and ''-ōδ''). ''-u'' nouns become ''-wr'' in the plural: ''abu, abwr'' 'an apple, apples'.


Words ending in a nasal vowel or an R-colored vowel add an intrusive R between the final vowel and the plural suffix: ''plą'' 'tree', ''pląrør'' 'trees'.
Words ending in a nasal vowel or an R-colored vowel add an intrusive R between the final vowel and the plural suffix: ''plą'' 'tree', ''pląrør'' 'trees'.