• them contain nouns which mostly fall into clear categories. For example, all class 1 nouns are humans and verbal agents, most class 1a nouns are proper...
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  • Sotho (/sɛˈsuːtuː/) Sesotho, also known as Southern Sotho or Sesotho sa Borwa is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken...
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    Sesotho sa Leboa is a Sotho-Tswana language group spoken in the northeastern provinces of South Africa, most commonly in Mpumalanga, Gauteng and the Limpopo...
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  • The syntactic occurrence of nouns differs among languages. In English, prototypical nouns are common nouns or proper nouns that can occur with determiners...
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  • In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns. A noun may belong to a given class because of the characteristic features of its referent...
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    Tswana language (category Sotho-Tswana languages)
    characteristics of most nouns within their respective classes. Some nouns may be found in several classes. For instance, many class 1 nouns are also found in...
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    three main categories of English nouns are common nouns, proper nouns, and pronouns. A defining feature of English nouns is their ability to inflect for...
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  • distinguished in English: nouns, determiners, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions. Nouns form the largest word class...
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  • with verbs, and has historically occurred with some nouns. When forming class 1 or 3 nouns from noun stems beginning with /b/ the middle /ʊ/ is removed...
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  • change to the nouns themselves. It has a complex grammatical gender system, but this does not include natural gender. See Sotho nouns. It has head-first...
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  • The nouns of the German language have several properties, some unique. As in many related Indo-European languages, German nouns possess a grammatical...
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    extensive use of affixes (see Sotho grammar and Ganda noun classes for detailed discussions of these affixes). Each noun belongs to a class, and each language...
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  • l’Afrique centrale. Mabille, A., Dieterlen, H., and Paroz, R. A. 1950. Southern Sotho-English Dictionary. Morija Sesuto Book Depot. Motingoe, M. M., 2008. Letshwao...
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    Southern Ndebele noun consists of two essential parts, the prefix and the stem. Using the prefixes, nouns can be grouped into noun classes, which are...
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  • with their corresponding nouns in case, number and gender. Finite verbs agreed with their subjects in person and number. Nouns came in numerous declensions...
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  • before suffixes attached to proper nouns.) However, if two nouns are connected, but not by ownership, then the second noun generally takes an ending of possession...
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    Lesotho (also known as Basutoland until 1966). In Sotho language, Marena is the plural of the common noun Kings, where Morena is the singular for King. The...
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  • a judge') The tones of the noun prefixes of nouns derived from verbs are independent of the tones of the stem. Some nouns derived from verbs have idiomatic...
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  • The orthography of the Sotho language is fairly recent and is based on the Latin script, but, like most languages written using the Latin alphabet, it...
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  • remained a reliable friend." These verbs precede nouns or adjectives in a sentence, which become predicate nouns and predicate adjectives. Copulae are thought...
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  • some inflection with nouns, adjectives, and verbs. It is generally a subject–verb–object (SVO) language with V2 word order. Nouns have one of two grammatical...
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  • the Sotho–Tswana languages are nasally permuted. In Sesotho, nngwe is a variant (allomorph) of the adjective stem -ng used only for Class 9 nouns. The...
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  • Bulgarian nouns have the categories: grammatical gender, number, case (only vocative) and definiteness. A noun has one of three specific grammatical genders...
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  • modern noun παιδί (paidi). Other neuter nouns end in -α (-a) and -ος (-os) and their declension is similar to the ancient one. Moreover, some nouns in -ιμο...
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    number. The Xhosa noun consists of two essential parts, the prefix and the stem. Using the prefixes, nouns can be grouped into noun classes, which are...
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  • learn German nouns with their accompanying definite article, as the definite article of a German noun corresponds to the gender of the noun. However, the...
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    participle. Gerund forms are often used as plain verbal nouns, which function grammatically like common nouns (in particular, by being qualified by adjectives...
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  • specifically, in Romanian, neuter nouns behave in the singular as masculine nouns and in the plural as feminine nouns. As such, all noun determiners and all pronouns...
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  • possessable and unpossessable nouns, and the possessable nouns are further divided based on their alienability. The concept of a noun is fairly well defined...
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  • Greek, all nouns, including proper nouns, are classified according to grammatical gender as masculine, feminine, or neuter. The gender of a noun is shown...
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