Nouns and Adjectives: An Introduction
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An overview of Parzil's noun gender and adjectival systems
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Nouns in Parzil are divided into two genders, Masculine and Feminine; they are divided as such for both grammatical and semantic reasons, such as specifying a person's sex and determining the correct declension pattern.
Adjectives in Parzil are treated as nouns in their declension patterns. They must agree with nouns in number and case but not gender. While you can treat animate nouns/adjectives of one gender (such as prima and prim) as another (with some exceptions), you do not change an adjective to agree with a noun's gender; that convention has long been lost in the Parnae languages.
Determining Noun Gender
Masculine nouns are nouns which are not feminine; they must both a) end in a consonant and b) have a final vowel other than a.
Feminine nouns are divided into two subcategories, mostly for declension patterns -- Type I and Type II. Type I nouns are simply called "Feminine" while Type II are referred to as "Feminine II" or "Feminine Type II". Type I nouns are those which end in a vowel; Type II nouns are those whose final vowel is a but end in a consonant as well as those nouns whose final and penultimate vowels are a; they may end in a or a consonant. Feminine I nouns can be treated as masculine, and masculine nouns may be treated as feminine, but Feminine II nouns are always feminine; they may not be reinterpreted as a masculine noun. This is because the "default" in Parzil is feminine, while in languages like Bulgrojma, the default is often masculine; this means you must specify that someone is a male by changing a feminine noun to masculine, but a feminine noun can be assumed to be male or female (in Bulgrojma, it is the opposite way).
Here are some examples:
- Klozk - Language (M)
- Šterdwek - Folk Song (M)
- Prima - Woman / Girlfriend (F)
- Note: this word can also mean "person"
- The converted masculine form would be 'Prim'
- Síldawst - Country (F II)
- Brawstwa - Family (F II)
Adjectival declension patterns are the same as nouns in all cases except the instrumental; the distinct adjectival declension patterns of the instrumental case have been retained from Proto-Parnae. Additionally, adjectives in the instrumental case only have one form (as opposed to two, one for singular and one for plural); as such, they only agree in case and not number.
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