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Nouns and grammatical features

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  • Nouns have their distinct suffixes on both gender and cases. Starting with genders, masculine words have the -s or -is endings and the feminine words have the -a or -e endings. When we want to convert them to plural, the masculine suffixes will be changed to -ai and the feminine suffixes will be changed to -as or -es.

  • Note: all words, including foreign words and
    loanwords must comply with the grammar.

  • Depending on the context, each word will have a
    case applied. This also includes the gender with
    it.

  • In summary, here are the suffixes for each case of a masculine word:

    Nominative: -s/-is (Singular) and -ai (Plural)
    Accusative: -i (Singular) and -us (Plural)
    Genitive: -a (Singular) and -u (Plural)
    Dative: -am (Singular) and -iems (Plural)
    Locative: -ā (Singular) and -ōse (Plural)
    Instrumental: -am (Singular) and -iem (Plural)
    Vocative: Removal of -s/-is suffixes (Singular) and -ai (Plural)

  • In summary, here are the suffixes for each case of a feminine word:

    Nominative: -a/-e (Singular) and -as/-es (Plural)
    Accusative: -u/-ju (Singular) and -as/-es (Plural)
    Genitive: -as/-es (Singular) and -u/-ju (Plural)
    Dative: -ai/-ei (Singular) and -āms/-ēms (Plural)
    Locative: -ā/-ē (Singular) and -āse/-ēse (Plural)
    Instrumental: -u/-i (Singular) and -ām/-ēm (Plural)
    Vocative: Not applicable