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Note that there is no grammatical gender preassigned to a given noun. Certain things will take on a gender based on certain implications and information given, such as a dog known to be biologically female. A dog in general will have no gender, but will be marked with "-e" to show that it has gender/sex but that it is unknown. Nouns always end a plosive. When gender is known, a male noun will end in "-o" and a female noun will end in "-ì." It is important to note that only Class I can be assigned a gender, and all others are gender neutral. Of course, gender is irrelevant with case markings, since they appear on opposite ends of a noun. | Note that there is no grammatical gender preassigned to a given noun. Certain things will take on a gender based on certain implications and information given, such as a dog known to be biologically female. A dog in general will have no gender, but will be marked with "-e" to show that it has gender/sex but that it is unknown. Nouns always end a plosive. When gender is known, a male noun will end in "-o" and a female noun will end in "-ì." It is important to note that only Class I can be assigned a gender, and all others are gender neutral. Of course, gender is irrelevant with case markings, since they appear on opposite ends of a noun. | ||
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Nouns are considered to fall under the seven classes below, which give additional information about what kind of noun it is. | Nouns are considered to fall under the seven classes below, which give additional information about what kind of noun it is. | ||
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* '''Class VI''' Undeniable Concepts (Happiness, ideas, plans, etc.) | * '''Class VI''' Undeniable Concepts (Happiness, ideas, plans, etc.) | ||
* '''Class VII''' Unknowns (Meaning of life, what's inside a black hole, etc.) | * '''Class VII''' Unknowns (Meaning of life, what's inside a black hole, etc.) | ||
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! colspan=22|Noun Class | ! colspan=22|Noun Class | ||
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! colspan=3|Class I | ! colspan=3|Class I | ||
! colspan=3|Class II | ! colspan=3|Class II | ||
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! Paucal | ! Paucal | ||
! Plural | ! Plural | ||
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|} | |} | ||
====Case==== | ====Case==== | ||
There are five main noun cases in Marêngil; Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive and Possessed. All the cases come from pronouns; I, you, it, mine and yours respectively. At one point there were separate prepositions, but since then they have lost their individuality. All cases are based around these prepositions. Note that the shown prefixes are not meant to be added on, but are meant to always be the beginning of a word. | |||
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