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Noun Grammar

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Each noun is in one class of nouns. If the demonstrative, article, or possesive is in a category that is not the category of the noun, it changes the meaning of the noun adapting it to the new Noun Class. If a word is of the Person Class but the article is for an Open Location Class, the speaker is reffering to the person as a place, but is not reffering to a place to stay inside.

Noun Classes

  • Class 1: Person Class: General for people, communities, social classes, groups, works (the work and not the worker)

  • Class 2: Masculine: Any life-being with masculine sex and masculine workers

  • Class 3: Feminine: Any life-being with feminine sex and feminine workers

  • Class 4: Animal Class: Any animal that is not human

  • Class 5: Plant Class: Any plant

  • Class 6: Tool Class: Anything that works as a tool

  • Class 7: Food Class: Food as fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, dishes, steaks...

  • Class 8: Closed Location Class: Any place closed, with a floor, "walls" and a roof. As a house, a room, a palace, a building or transports as a car, a train...

  • Class 9: Open Location Class: Any other place, most of them are natural places as volcanoes, forests, squares, the sea, a garden, a planet...

  • Class 10: Component Class: Components of a thing, a portion, a member...

  • Class 11: Soul Class: Anything spiritual, philosophical, ideological, teological or emotional. As gods, spirits, ideologies, monks, thinkers, artists, anger, happiness, the sun, the moon, a star... Any work related to art, philosophy or religion is in this category.

  • Class 12: General Class: Anything that can't fit in any of the previous classes.

Noun Cases

There are some cases that are marked in the noun.
Absolutive: The subject of an intransitive verb and the direct object of a transitive verb. It is the base form of the noun
Ergative: The subject of a transitive verb
Genitive: It can convert a noun in an adjective and it indicates relation or the noun is possesor.
Dative: The indirect object and a reason.

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Noun Sintagms

A noun sintagm is a group of words centered in a noun. The order of word ina noun sintagm has to be this "Preposition - Demonstrative - Adjectives - Noun"

Class Words: Counting, Definiteness and Distance

These words help marking the class of a noun, also marking number of things, distance from the speaker or the definiteness.

A counter word is an auxiliary word for counting nouns with specific quantities. There are also counter words that work to count with unespecific quantities, but these words work as a meaning and not as an auxiliar. Counter words differ depending on the noun class.

An demonstrative is a word that mark distance from the speaker and definiteness. There are three distance categories; close, bit away and away. There are two definiteness categories; definited and undefinited

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