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| Patient nouns are formed by adding agent suffixes to stative passive or to ''-am-'' passive - e.g. ''arkanaa'' "one who is seen (''m.'')", ''arkameeya'' "those who are seen". The two forms (i.e. stative vs ''-am-'' passive) have slightly different connotations. For example, ''arkanaa'' might refer to someone who is being seen at the moment, while ''arkamaa'' might refer to someone who is regularly seen. | | Patient nouns are formed by adding agent suffixes to stative passive or to ''-am-'' passive - e.g. ''arkanaa'' "one who is seen (''m.'')", ''arkameeya'' "those who are seen". The two forms (i.e. stative vs ''-am-'' passive) have slightly different connotations. For example, ''arkanaa'' might refer to someone who is being seen at the moment, while ''arkamaa'' might refer to someone who is regularly seen. |
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| ===Attributives===
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| Attributives (also called definitives) modify a noun/pronoun and occur at the beginning of the noun phrase. Some agree with the noun in gender/number, but most are invariable. Strictly speaking, words that can occur independently (such as articles) or that are declined forms of nouns/verbs are not attributives, but they are included here for convenience.
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| ====Articles====
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| See [[Qino#Demonstratives|Demonstratives]].
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| ====Numerals====
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| See [[Qino#Numbers|Numbers]].
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| ====Genitives====
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| Nouns/pronouns in the genitive behave as attributives. They must occur with a head noun or pronoun and are accented - e.g. ''<b>kiishi</b> mana'' "'''my''' house", ''<b>Maxammadi</b> ka'' "Mohammad's one".
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| ====Quantifiers====
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| Quantifiers are accented and occur at the beginning of the noun phrase. Some are listed below.
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| *''kulli'': all (can also occur as a pronoun, in which case it declines as a feminine noun)
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| ====Attributive Verbs====
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| Verbs (and there arguments) can occur attributively before a noun. Verbs used like this always occur in the singular. Class 3 verbs may reduplicate when qualifying plural or collective nouns.
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| ====True Attributives====
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| These are words that cannot occur independently and are not a noun/pronoun/verb form. Some are listed below.
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| *''kale'': other
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| *''lab'': male (derived from the noun ''labba'' "man/men")
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| *''dubar'': female (derived from the noun ''dubara'' "woman/women")
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| *''kulli'': all; every
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