Nouns in Vrkhazhian: Difference between revisions
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Revision as of 12:35, 26 October 2021
Vrkhazhian nouns are called ǧimūm (singular ǧimum). They are declined for case, gender, and number. Specifically there are five cases (nominative, vocative, accusative, instrumental, and adpositional) and two numbers (singular and plural). Additionally, Vrkhazhian has two grammatical genders: masculine and feminine. These genders are not strictly based on sex and the gender of non-human nouns is somewhat unpredictable.
Noun inflection
Imperial Vrkhazhian nouns are declined for all five cases. The nominative case indicates the subject or agent of the verb while the accusative case indicates the object or patient of the verb. The instrumental case indicates the theme or instrument of a ditransitive verb, as well as the possessor of another noun.
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Noun states
Nouns are also considered to be placed into what are called "states". There are two states: the governed state, or status rectus, and the construct state, or status constructus. The construct state is used in genitive constructions to mark the head noun (possessed noun), while the oblique case is used to mark the dependent (modifying) noun. The construct state is also used to mark the predicate of a nominal sentence. Nouns that that are not placed in the construct state are considered to be in the governed state, which is the default state of all nouns.
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Noun derivation
Vrkhazhian nouns are mostly derived from verbs and there are numerous ways to derive nouns from them:
