Adjective position

## Adjective position

The adjective always precedes the noun it modifies (adjective + noun order, English-style):

> Regola: adjective + noun

Example: gredu arrue = "big house" (not arrue gredu).

## Absence of grammatical gender

The NLS language does not have grammatical gender. This means that inanimate nouns (such as things or abstract concepts) are completely neutral and do not require any arbitrary distinction between masculine and feminine. Consequently:

- Neutral articles: The same definite (*-ne*) and indefinite (*en-*) articles are used for all nouns, without distinctions (e.g., en-arrue = a house; arruene = the house).

- Invariable adjectives: Adjectives are strictly invariable and do not change ending for gender or number (e.g., geru darm = good male; geru darta = good female).

Gender in NLS is exclusively natural or biological and is expressed solely at the lexical level through word pairs with distinct roots when strictly necessary (e.g., lam he / lat she; darm male / darta female; darco son / darca daughter).

If a term refers to a neutral or common role or concept, a single epicene root (valid for both sexes) is used, such as kett (friend). In the rare cases where it is absolutely necessary to specify the biological gender for a neutral noun, the gender terms darm or darta are placed before the noun as a modifier:

- darm kett = a male friend

- darta kett = a female friend