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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
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The fourth and final case is the '''genitive''', is used to mark a word that modifies a noun. It is comparable to Federation Standard's «of» and «'s». It can be used to express composition (bowl <u>of soup</u>), possession (<u>Captain's</u> orders), origin (people <u>of Denobula</u>) or apposition (Mount <u>Fuji</u>). | The fourth and final case is the '''genitive''', is used to mark a word that modifies a noun. It is comparable to Federation Standard's «of» and «'s». It can be used to express composition (bowl <u>of soup</u>), possession (<u>Captain's</u> orders), origin (people <u>of Denobula</u>) or apposition (Mount <u>Fuji</u>). | ||
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===Nouns=== | |||
In Denobulan, nouns are categorized in a grammatical gender system based on animacy. A noun will always be either animate (<span style="font-variant: small-caps">an</span>) or inanimate (<span style="font-variant: small-caps">inan</span>). Nouns are animate when they relate to (parts of) people, animals, plants or other (things perceived as) living beings. Nouns are inanimate when they relate to concrete or abstract objects, natural forces or ideas. Often though, a noun is found in an unexpected gender. Therefore, a speaker of the language memorizes the gender alongside the meaning of a word. The gender of a word also changes its declension. | |||
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! Singular | |||
! Animate | |||
! Inanimate | |||
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| style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#efefef;" | Ergative | |||
| style="text-align: center;" | -(e)m | |||
| style="text-align: center;" | -(e)t | |||
|- | |||
| style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#efefef;" | Patientive | |||
| style="text-align: center;" | - | |||
| style="text-align: center;" | - | |||
|- | |||
| style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#efefef;" | Genitive | |||
| style="text-align: center;" | -(ch)i | |||
| style="text-align: center;" | -(s)i | |||
|} | |||
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{| class="wikitable" | |||
! Plural | |||
! Animate | |||
! Inanimate | |||
|- | |||
| style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#efefef;" | Ergative | |||
| style="text-align: center;" | -(e)n | |||
| style="text-align: center;" | -(e)k | |||
|- | |||
| style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#efefef;" | Patientive | |||
| style="text-align: center;" | -(a)s | |||
| style="text-align: center;" | -(ah)s | |||
|- | |||
| style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#efefef;" | Genitive | |||
| style="text-align: center;" | -(ch)it | |||
| style="text-align: center;" | -(s)it | |||
|} | |||
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