Saturday, December 13, 2008

Noun declensions

As in many languages, Draenei words have three types: masculine, feminine and neuter. These should not be mistaken as necessarily referring to the gender of the object itself; a man's name may be inflected as a feminine word.





Masculine
CaseSingularPlural
Nominative-os-u
Genitive-ou-oun
Dative-o-uh
Accusative-ol-ul








Feminine
CaseSingularPlural
Nominative-ar, -a-ei
Genitive-as, -at-is
Dative-a-ih
Accusative-al-il








Neuter
CaseSingularPlural
Nominative-al, -ad, -ath, -or-i
Genitive-as, -ou-is
Dative-a, -o-ih
Accusative-al,-ol-il


The vocative of all forms is a- or an- (in front of vowels) at the beginning of the word.

A full explanation of "case" and "declension" is outside the scope of this page. Wikipedia has a good series of articles on Inflection and related terms.

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