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Three-gender system of Rinap includes masculine, feminine and a peculiar divine. Nouns ending with consonants are in the masculine 'wy'-class while feminine 'wi' nouns end with a vowel. The words are often altered so that they are placed to the 'right' gender class: 'wy mub' for 'a man' and 'wi nidi' for 'a woman'. Divine 'a'-gender indicates that the noun is of divine origin: 'a heran' is 'a god' and 'a ge' means 'a heart'. Fourth gender, 'Krai' or the high Divine, is a definite sub-class of divine and can be used to raise the importance of a word or to express the very essence of the noun: 'Krai Halla' is 'the Sungod Halla', the six elements such as 'Krai Nyraka' meaning 'the Element of Fire' and some essences such as 'Krai Nida' which means 'Femininity'.

===Cases===

Rinap nouns have three cases for different uses similarly to pronouns. All the determiners are also inflected, but especially with objective nouns, some of the determiners are often kept in the nominative form.

*Nominative case is the basic form of a noun, and it is used when the noun is the subject of a clause.

*Objective case, combination of accusative and dative cases, is used when the noun works as verb's object or together with prepositions: 'Neuho mo nyk '''khuolketik''' hokege kfeyk.' 'They are in that distant big '''building'''.'

==Verbs==

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 Three-gender system of Rinap includes masculine, feminine and a peculiar divine. Nouns ending with consonants are in the masculine 'wy'-class while feminine 'wi' nouns end with a vowel. The words are often altered so that they are placed to the 'right' gender class: 'wy mub' for 'a man' and 'wi nidi' for 'a woman'. Divine 'a'-gender indicates that the noun is of divine origin: 'a heran' is 'a god' and 'a ge' means 'a heart'. Fourth gender, 'Krai' or the high Divine, is a definite sub-class of divine and can be used to raise the importance of a word or to express the very essence of the noun: 'Krai Halla' is 'the Sungod Halla', the six elements such as 'Krai Nyraka' meaning 'the Element of Fire' and some essences such as 'Krai Nida' which means 'Femininity'.
+===Cases===
+Rinap nouns have three cases for different uses similarly to pronouns. All the determiners are also inflected, but especially with objective nouns, some of the determiners are often kept in the nominative form.
+*Nominative case is the basic form of a noun, and it is used when the noun is the subject of a clause.
+*Objective case, combination of accusative and dative cases, is used when the noun works as verb's object or together with prepositions: 'Neuho mo nyk '''khuolketik''' hokege kfeyk.' 'They are in that distant big '''building'''.'
 ==Verbs==