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bethfennar vendar
3.0 nominal morphology

Nominals in ámman îar are inflected for definiteness, number, and case.

Although ámman îar has productive gender formatives -îel and -an, these are not considered inflectional. This is because these formatives are derivational rather than inflectional and are, therefore, discussed in the section dealing with derivational morphology. I make this distinction because these formatives grant clear semantic content to the roots to which they are applied while exhibiting no grammatical or syntactic functions such as agreement

in edhanisse eleth en in edhielis erdulmiraen
(atrasiri inhathlasiri anitumidh )
The boys welcomed the girls.

NOUN INFLECTIONS
in edhanisse
the boys

DETERMINER   STEM  NUMBER  CASE
   in       adhanis  [-i]   -e 
DEF/PLUR      boy    PLUR  ERG
3.0 Nominal Morphology
        3.1 Number
                3.1.2 Singular
                3.1.3 Plural
                3.1.3 Class Plural
        3.2 Noun Cases
                3.2.1 Core Cases
                      3.2.1.1 Ergative
                      3.2.1.2 Absolutive
                3.2.2 Oblique Cases
                      3.2.2.1 Dative
                      3.2.2.2 Instrumental
                      3.2.2.3 Genitive
                      3.2.2.4 Abessive
               3.2.3  Locative Cases
                      3.2.3.1 Illative
                      3.2.3.2 Allative
                      3.2.3.3 Inessive
                      3.2.3.4 Adessive
                      3.2.3.5 Elative
                      3.2.3.6 Ablative
                      3.2.3.7 Comitative