Tevrés: Difference between revisions

Tevrés nouns are divided into three genders, all of which are directly inherited from [[Aeranir]].  These known as the temporary, cyclical, and eternal genders.  The gender of a noun effects the adjectives and verbs that refer to it.

A regular noun in Tevrés belongs to one of three basic declension classes, a group of nouns with similar inflected forms.  These classes are generally typified by the final vowel of the nominative and accusative cases.  Class I is identified by the letter -a, class II by -o, and class III by either an -e or a consonant.  However, there is significant variation within declension classes, and thus these are further divided into subclasses.

# Ablative — used when the noun demonstrates separation or movement from a source, cause, agent or instrument; the cat ran '''from the dog''': ''[[Tevrés#Articles|lla]] {{term|çella}} '''[[Tevrés#Articles|lla]] {{term|çievra}}''' {{term|cotllía}}''

Nouns in class I end in -a in both the nominative and accusative singular cases and are mostly cyclical e.g. ''{{term|llaesta}}'' c.("luck") and ''{{term|pira}}'' c. ("wax"), with a small group of temporary nouns generally referring to occupations, e.g. ''{{term|coxazga}}'' t. ("courier").  

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Nouns in class II generally end in ''-os''/''-o'' in the nominative singular and ''-e'' in the genitive singular, although these endings are often elided in classes II.b., II.c., and II.d., and are mostly temporary and eternal nouns, e.g. ''{{term|comos}}'' t. ("family"), ''{{term|goros}}'' t. ("crow"), ''{{term|miño}}'' e. ("port"), and ''{{term|jozés}}'' e. ("name, title").

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Nouns in class III are the most divergent, and there is great variation in this group and even within its subclasses.  Nouns in Class III may be either temporary, cyclical, or eternal, and it is difficult to discern the gender from the word from alone; they must be memorised individually.  For example, many temporary nouns are identical in both the nominative and accusative singulars.  Words in this category include ''{{term|mientre}}'' t. ("little brother"), ''{{term|salvra}}'' c. ("holy books, cannon"), ''{{term|véral}}'' c. ("sorrow, grief"), and ''{{term|dul}}'' e. ("hill").