Kalmyk/Grammar

Parts of Speech

The main parts of speech in Kalmyk are:

• nouns
• pronouns
• numerals
• postpositions
• adverbs
• verbs
• conjunctions
• particles
• interjections

Nouns

The tag for nouns should be <n>.

Noun Cases

Nouns in Kalmyk have the following cases (corresponding tags indicated to the right):

• genitive <gen>
• accusative <acc>
• dative <dat>
• ablative <abl>
• instrumental
• comitative <com>
• directive

possessive are not cases but series of suffixes occurring after genitive case