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===Nouns and adjectives=== | ===Nouns and adjectives=== | ||
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. | 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. | ||
==== Number and definiteness ==== | |||
{{PAGENAME}} has regularized all plurals to ''-r'' (from a merger of Ancient Cubrite ''-īm'' > ''*-ī'' and ''-ōδ''). ''-u'' nouns become ''-lr'' in the plural: ''þebu, þeblr'' 'a world, worlds'. | {{PAGENAME}} has regularized all plurals to ''-r'' (from a merger of Ancient Cubrite ''-īm'' > ''*-ī'' and ''-ōδ''). ''-u'' nouns become ''-lr'' in the plural: ''þebu, þeblr'' 'a world, worlds'. | ||
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*''botil grulr'' = the big houses | *''botil grulr'' = the big houses | ||
Degree | ==== Degree ==== | ||
*Equative: ''de-'' = as X as; equally X (~ BH ''day'' 'enough') | *Equative: ''de-'' = as X as; equally X (~ BH ''day'' 'enough') | ||
*Emphatic: ''ro-'' = so X, very X indeed (inherited from Ancient Cubrite, which borrowed it from Celtic) | *Emphatic: ''ro-'' = so X, very X indeed (inherited from Ancient Cubrite, which borrowed it from Celtic) | ||