Nouns

Nouns are divided into four genders or nominal classes, typically called masculine, feminine, edible, and neuter (abbreviated m., f., e., and n. respectively). Note that abstract nouns almost invariably fall into the "edible" gender.

Nouns have three cases: nominative, genitive, and accusative. Unlike verbs, they are not usually marked for number; while some few nouns have plural counterparts, they are typically properly analyzed as distinct lexemes: for example, the etymologically unrelated tsi (eye, f.) and kjaš (pair of eyes, n.).

Conjugation of dox (dog, m.) Nominative: edox Genitive: kadox Accusative: jidox	Conjugation of tsi (eye, f.) Nominative: itsi Genitive: hatsi Accusative: hetsi
Conjugation of cinog (apple, e.) Nominative: jacinog Genitive: hacinog Accusative: acinog	Conjugation of vook (eating-utensil), n. Nominative: vook Genitive: xavook Accusative: vook

Note that in casual speech, the masculine nominative prefix e-, like the third-person-singular verb prefix, is typically elided.

Some texts distinguish a fourth case, the comitative case, which is identically the zero-form for all genders. This case did exist as a separate case with actual case markers until a few hundred years ago, but is now typically seen as an elision of the case markers from the latter words of a conjunction.

e-Tevli	Kjaxa	ŋa-sere.
NOM-Tevli	∅-Kjaxa	3pl-to be present
Tevli	and Kjasa	are here.

(Male and female speakers formerly used different case markers for masculine and feminine nouns; however, this is no longer considered correct usage.)

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