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Nouns
Puchonese has no grammatical number, gender or articles. Thus, Puchonese nouns are non-inflecting. The noun iku can be translated as "dog", "dogs", "a dog", "the dog", "some dogs" and so forth, depending on context. However, as part of the extensive pair of grammatical systems that Puchonese possesses for honorification and politeness, nouns too can be modified. Nouns take politeness prefix a- to produce their respectful forms. A few examples are given in the following table.

Puchonese does not differentiate between count and mass nouns. A small number of nouns have collectives formed by reduplication, for example, oro "person" and orooro  "people". However, reduplication is not productive. Words in Puchonese referring to more than one of something are collectives, not plurals. Orooro, for example, means "a lot of people" or "people in general". It is never used to mean "two people". A phrase like phu'tsin ke orooro would be taken to mean "the people of Puchon", or "the population of Puchon", not "two people from Puchon" or even "a few people from Puchon".

Lacking grammatical number, the noun hapi may refer to a single bird or several birds. Where number is important, it can be indicated by providing a quantity (often with a counter word). For example, hapi ho ik means eight birds.

Demonstratives
Demonstratives occur in the i-, ne-, and ko- series. The i- (proximal) series refers to things closer to the speaker than the hearer, the ne- (mesial) series for things closer to the hearer, and the ko- (distal) series for things distant to both the speaker and the hearer. With ma-, demonstratives turn into the corresponding interrogative form. Demonstratives limit, and therefore precede, nouns; thus i maro for "this stone", ne maro  for "that stone", and ko maro  for "that stone over there".