Difference between revisions of "Nouns"

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Okay, so here's the deal.

There are seven different terminals for Chezian nouns: AE, O, E, Y, A, U, and a consonant. Nouns decline (that is, have case) in Chezian, like they do in German, or Latin. In fact, the cases are the same as they are in Latin:

• Nominative [N] — The subject of a sentence, this is the raw dictionary form whose terminal dictates its terminal category.
• Accusative [A] — The direct object of a sentence, that which is directed acted upon by the main verb
• Dative [D] — This is the indirect object of a sentence, but specifically may only answer to whom or for whom (or what) the action of the sentence took place.
• Genitive [G] — This is sometimes used to signal a possesor of a following noun (like the "'s" clitic in English). See also [-orka].
• Ablative [B] — Unlike Latin, this is only used with prepositions concerning movement away.
• Locative [L] — This is a noun telling "where", but implies no movement.
• Vocative [V] — This marks a noun being addressed (e.g., Fred in "Fred, when are you going to write something?")

Below are the endings documented in chezword.

-O -U

  IND  DEF	   IND  DEF	

N o af N u uf A ac ax A uc ux D az or D uz ur G ae am G ae um B io ios B iu ius L e ed L u ud V ir ir V ir ir

-E -CONSONANT ("C")

  IND  DEF	   IND  DEF	

N e ef N C Cef A ec ex A Cec Cex D ez er D Cez Cer G ae em G Cae Cem B ie ies B Co Cos L e ed L Ce Ced V ir ir V Cir Cir

-Y

  IND  DEF	

N y y A e y D iy iy G ie ie B y y L y y V ir ir

half-cases

What's a half-case? Half-cases (some chezian word) or clitics, are suffixed to the nominative form of a noun, and do not themselves agree in terminal declension or number.

• possessive (-orka) ["'s"]
• comitative (-volo) ["with", manner]
• prolative (-ensecon) ["by way of", "according to", "per", "pursuant"]