Lesson One: Nouns & Noun Case
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An overview of nouns in Anari and their two cases.
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Welcome to a series of lessons on how to write and speak the Anari language. In this lesson we will teach you how nouns function in Anari.
Anari is a language built with Nominative-Accusative Alignment. All nouns and pronouns in the dictionary are in their default nominative case, and all nouns except for pronouns have only two cases; Nominative and Genitive. Pronouns have a third case, Accusative, which will be covered later in our lesson on Pronouns.
All nouns are found in the dictionary in their nominative case. This form describes te noun when they are acting as the agent in a sentence and the patient; Take for instance the English sentence:
The boy had a cake.
We would gloss it in English as:
The boy-NOMNominative (case)
TRANS subject, INTR argument had a cake-NOMNominative (case)
TRANS subject, INTR argument.
The nouns boy and cake would be in their nominative case in Anari as well.
All nouns in Anari have a case to show possession. In English, this is achieved through the suffix -'s, from the archaic Middle English Genitive Case. In Spanish, nouns have no genitive case; instead, they use the word de, meaning of, to show possession.
An example in English would be:
The boy's-GENGenitive (case)
possessive cake.
Anari forms its genitive case by adding the suffix -ví to singular nouns and -vín to the end of plural nouns. The diacritic mark over the i assists in distinguishing between words ending naturally in vi and words in their genitive case.
The following are some example sentences of case and their Anari counterpart.
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