Nouns are words that represent things in the universe we are in.
In Kewe nouns are formed from a base and a gender affix forming a root,

Gender in Kewe

Before forming nouns you will have to understand how the gender system in Kewe works
In Kewe there are 5 different genders split into a 2 tier animacy heirarchy

• 1st Tier: Feminine, Masculine, Animate, River

• 2nd Tier: Inanimate

The 1st tier genders are all nouns with a gender suffix on them, these are words who had a classifier attached to them and act as full roots, you cannot remove the affixed gender and change it
The inanimate gender is essentially the base noun form (from proto-kait) without any gender affixed onto it, these you can promote by through gender affixes of the tier 1 genders to form new words.

More on the Gender Hierarchy:
Each gender encompasses words with a specific semtantic meaning to the Weʂɑla people
Feminine contain nouns associated with women
Masculine contain nouns associated with men
Animate contains nouns that are associated with animals aswell as gender neutral terms
River contains nouns that are thought to have some volition to them such as fire, aswell as usually abstract nouns
Inanimate is just everything else

Number

The 2 tier animacy system is not limited to just this as you will see when we get to how number is marked on nouns

First we will talk about how number is marked on the 1st tier genders:
The marker is a separate one from the gender affix
You simply add the suffix:
-t

altho if the animate noun ends in a consonant you add - u

Inanimate Number

Due to proto-kait having a strict animacy heirarchy the inanimate nouns developed a seperate way to mark number
Instead of marking plural and not marking singular, the inanimate nouns have a general-singulative number system

This is also where the distinction between true inanimate nouns and false inanimate nouns is apparent
By this I mean that there are some inanimate nouns that either are countless or actually do have the singular-plural system which is caused by either there being a need to never confuse if its just 1 or multiple, or by the origin of the word. A good example is the word for day: 'do', which has the singular-plural distinction.

True inanimate noun's default form is the General, where it can be assumed that the noun is plural or singular from context
However if a need to point out that it is just 1 single thing then the noun gets the

Singulative ending: -li