Grammatical category in the Bantu language of the Sotho
Sesotho
Phonology
Tonology
Grammar
Parts of speech
Nouns
Concords
Verbs
Deficient verbs
Orthography
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Notes:
The orthography used in this and related articles is that of South Africa, not Lesotho. For a discussion of the differences between the two see the notes on Sesotho orthography.
Sesotho nouns signify concrete or abstract concepts in the language, but are distinct from the Sesotho pronouns.
Bantu languages are often said to have sentences which are "centred around the noun" due to the striking nature of the noun concordance system. In Sesotho, pronouns, verbs, copulatives, adjectives, relatives, enumeratives, and possessives all need to agree with the noun(s) associated with them.
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characteristics of most nouns within their respective classes. Some nouns may be found in several classes. For instance, many class 1 nouns are also found in...
distinguished in English: nouns, determiners, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions. Nouns form the largest word class...
l’Afrique centrale. Mabille, A., Dieterlen, H., and Paroz, R. A. 1950. Southern Sotho-English Dictionary. Morija Sesuto Book Depot. Motingoe, M. M., 2008. Letshwao...
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with verbs, and has historically occurred with some nouns. When forming class 1 or 3 nouns from noun stems beginning with /b/ the middle /ʊ/ is removed...
change to the nouns themselves. It has a complex grammatical gender system, but this does not include natural gender. See Sothonouns. It has head-first...
extensive use of affixes (see Sotho grammar and Ganda noun classes for detailed discussions of these affixes). Each noun belongs to a class, and each language...
with their corresponding nouns in case, number and gender. Finite verbs agreed with their subjects in person and number. Nouns came in numerous declensions...
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number. The Xhosa noun consists of two essential parts, the prefix and the stem. Using the prefixes, nouns can be grouped into noun classes, which are...
a judge') The tones of the noun prefixes of nouns derived from verbs are independent of the tones of the stem. Some nouns derived from verbs have idiomatic...
the Sotho–Tswana languages are nasally permuted. In Sesotho, nngwe is a variant (allomorph) of the adjective stem -ng used only for Class 9 nouns. The...
before suffixes attached to proper nouns.) However, if two nouns are connected, but not by ownership, then the second noun generally takes an ending of possession...
remained a reliable friend." These verbs precede nouns or adjectives in a sentence, which become predicate nouns and predicate adjectives. Copulae are thought...
some inflection with nouns, adjectives, and verbs. It is generally a subject–verb–object (SVO) language with V2 word order. Nouns have one of two grammatical...
modern noun παιδί (paidi). Other neuter nouns end in -α (-a) and -ος (-os) and their declension is similar to the ancient one. Moreover, some nouns in -ιμο...
Bulgarian nouns have the categories: grammatical gender, number, case (only vocative) and definiteness. A noun has one of three specific grammatical genders...
feminine nouns ending in a consonant. ⟨-ich⟩ is only found in a few words. Examples: Feminine nouns can end in a consonant, ⟨-a⟩, and ⟨-o⟩. Feminine nouns ending...
Most nouns have five cases: nominative (subject), accusative (object), genitive ("of"), dative ("to" or "for"), and ablative ("with" or "in"). Nouns for...
¯ ], H stem Doke, C. M., and Mofokeng, S. M. 1974. Textbook of Southern Sotho Grammar. Cape Town: Longman Southern Africa, 3rd. impression. ISBN 0-582-61700-6...
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Greek, all nouns, including proper nouns, are classified according to grammatical gender as masculine, feminine, or neuter. The gender of a noun is shown...
possessable and unpossessable nouns, and the possessable nouns are further divided based on their alienability. The concept of a noun is fairly well defined...