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English 'foliage' vs. 'leaves'.
Singulatives are
featured in some
Semitic and
Slavic languages. In
Arabic grammar, the
singulative is
called اسم الوحدة, "noun...
- (general) gotiiččo - "hyena" (
singulative) In some
languages like Afar, few
nouns have a three-way
contrast of general/
singulative/plurative, but
nouns with...
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single suffix being generally productive. Some
nouns are
marked with a
singulative suffix, some with a
plural suffix, some with both, and a few with irregular...
- The
determiner has two senses:
numerical one (I have one apple) and
singulative one (one day I'll do it). One is also a gender-neutral
pronoun used to...
- the plural, and two
endings to
indicate the
singular (technically the
singulative) of some nouns. In
spoken Welsh,
verbal features are
indicated primarily...
- mutations. In
addition to the singular–plural system, it also has a
singulative–collective system,
similar to Welsh.
Unlike the
other Brittonic languages...
- uta 'bow',
ubavu 'rib', ufa 'crack',
unywele 'a hair' from 'a hair',
singulatives of nouns,
which are
often class 6 ('collectives') in the plural: unyoya...
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hence saben “a pine tree”,
kelyonen “a fly” and
niwlen “a
patch of fog”.
Singulatives can
themselves have
plural forms in -ow,
denoting a
number of individuals...
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while others (-enti, -er, -ez, -ezh, -ezon, -i, -eg, -ell, and the
singulative -enn) are feminine. The
suffix -eg can be
masculine or feminine. There...
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Suffixaufnahme (case stacking) Noun
class Number Singular Dual
Plural Singulative-Collective-Plurative
Specificity Universal grinder Related to
verbs ****ociated...
