Nouns:
- There is no grammatical gender.
- There are two grammatical numbers, singular and plural.
- There are no grammatical cases.
Plural:
1 - Collective Plural:
- The Collective Plural is shown by the suffix “-’ni” added to nouns.
- It denotes a group of elements seen as a collective.
- It can also be used generally when not emphasizing the distinction between Collective or Distributive Plurals.
2 - Distributive Plural:
- The Distributive Plural is shown by the suffix “-’yu”. It denotes more than one element seen as independent individuals.
- When using the Distributive Plural in the subject of the sentence, the object does not need to be marked as plural.
Examples:
- The women brought a crown (only one crown)
vrilo ina danyo’ni loyava dadrala
[‘past particle’ the ‘woman-collective plural’ bring crown]
- The women are wearing crowns (each women is wearing a crown)
ina danyo’yu monava dadrala
[the ‘woman-distributive plural’ wear crown]
ina danyo’ni monava dadrala’ni
[the ‘woman-collective plural’ wear ‘crown-collective plural’]