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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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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English grammar (redirect from English noun phrase)
the second-largest. Unlike nouns in many other Indo-European languages, English nouns do not have grammatical gender. Noun, verb, adjective, and adverb...
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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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Sesotho grammar (redirect from Sotho grammar)
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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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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Bantu languages (section Noun class)
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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Old English grammar (redirect from Old English nouns)
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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Southern Ndebele language (section Nouns)
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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Sesotho orthography (redirect from Sotho alphabet)
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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Xhosa language (section Nouns)
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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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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Turkish grammar (redirect from Turkish Nouns)
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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Swedish grammar (redirect from Swedish nouns)
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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Modern Greek grammar (redirect from Modern Greek nouns)
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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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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Latin grammar (section Nouns)
Most nouns have five cases: nominative (subject), accusative (object), genitive ("of"), dative ("to" or "for"), and ablative ("with" or "in"). Nouns for...
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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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German grammar (section Nouns)
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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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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¯ ], H stem Doke, C. M., and Mofokeng, S. M. 1974. Textbook of Southern Sotho Grammar. Cape Town: Longman Southern Africa, 3rd. impression. ISBN 0-582-61700-6...
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Northern Ndebele language (section Nouns)
Northern 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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