Umbrean Lessons/05 Nouns and Pronouns

While you probably by now know how to construct basic sentences there havent been good discussion in depth with the nouns and pronouns, that will be done here =Nouns= Nouns have various subdivision of classes but also forms they can take them on. I shall try describing them here as well as possible.

Definitiveness
Definitiveness often refers to if the object in question have been mentioned earlier or is being brought into the conversation.
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! Definitiveness ! Explination ! Example ! Defined ! Undefined As seen here in english it is seperated by an article, a/an is the indefinite article while the is the defined.
 * The object have been talked about previously
 * The car
 * The object is being brought into the conversation
 * A car an apple
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In umbrean this is marked through a serie of ending that differ on various things.

Gender
Those who are familiar with noun gender from english will think of the romance languages feminine and masculine noun classes, but german have those two along with neuter. Swedish have Common gender and neuter, other languages have even more division. Gender in language is simply a way of dividing nouns up into several groups, english have none of the sort. The gender can determine alot of things, like in german what definite article is done, how adjectives are treated and more.


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! Gender ! Spanish example ! English ! Masculine ! Feminine
 * Gato
 * Cat
 * Casa
 * House
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In these languages the choice is rather arbitrary and reflect in no manner the object in question. In umbrean there are four genders, Magical, Non-Moving, Living and Artificial.

These genders are not arbitrary but reflect a certain property the object have and is subject to a hierarchy of the choice. The nouns contain a root and upon that root the gender vowel is added to mark its gender while in declension it is removed.
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! Hierarchy Number ! Gender ! Defining trait ! Ending ! Example ! 1
 * Living
 * The object in question is alive or related to the living
 * -u
 * Döndiu
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