Explore: Noun Formative

are also used for the construct noun form. The letters which form these suffixes (excluding plurals) are called "formative letters" (Hebrew: אוֹתִיּוֹת הַשִּׁמּוּשׁ‎

Modern māku). Other examples include goḍugu, ciluka, eluka, īga. The noun formative was -ambu, later -amu/-am > -aũ, eg. OTe. paṭṭambu ('authority/power')

tense, but not when used here in an adjectival sense. Removing the noun formative -am: This includes words such as സങ്കടം (saṅkaṭaṁ, sadness), മരം (maraṁ

in Proto-Austronesian. In Ilocano, CV-reduplication is used to pluralize nouns. Reduplication patterns include (Blust 2009): Full reduplication Full reduplication

INT=3SG-FM=2SG(-ERG) shoot-PERF 'What did you shoot?' Noun phrases show the order: (Relative Clause)-(Quantifier)-(Possessor)-Noun-(Adjective)-(Plural marker)-(Relative

meaning "father of", "mother of"). They are used as formative elements and require a following inflected noun to be in the annexed state. The plural is formed

Late Latin (and presumably Proto-Romance). Other formative changes include the syncretism of several noun case endings, especially in the plural, as well

of speech, formatives and adjuncts. Formatives functioned both as nouns and as verbs, depending on the morphosemantic context. Formatives were inflected

pronominal subject and object and formatives of state, voice, mood and number. They can also form compounds in three ways: verb+noun tzob-takʼin "to raise money"

(kitty-witty). Chichewa noun class 12 and 13 contain diminutive prefixes. The prefixes are ka (12) for singular nouns and ti (13) for plural nouns. These classes