Noun Declension

Nouns fall into two vowel harmony classes based on their final vowel:

- Heavy: -a / -o

- Light: -e

Apart from basic cases and grammatical number, further morphemes in nouns will be agglutinatively attached:

Semantic Cases Suffixes:

• -(d)ot/ öt: up to, about (Terminative)

• -do / -de: for (Benefactive)

• -rull / -rüll: which is (Essive)

• -va / -ve: with (Comitative)

• -gak / -gek: with (Instrumental)

• Locative cases:

  • -ó: Locative

  • -ró: Lative

  • -gó: Ablative

  • After the locative suffixes another suffix could be added to specify the position:

    • -l: down

    • -nj: up

    • -d: next to

    • -b: outside

Possessive Suffixes:

• -k: 1sg

• -sz: 2sg

• -l: 3sg

• -m: 1pl

• -c: 2pl

• -j: 3pl

The noun suffixes will be added in the order: ROOT-CASE-POSSESSIVE-SEMANTIC CASE-LOCATIVE