Wôpanâak/Grammar

Morphological Categories

The tag for a noun should be <n>. Nouns are divided into two classes based on animacy. The tag for an animate noun will be <na> and the tag for an inanimate noun will be <ni>.

Basic Noun Pluralization

There are two numbers: singular and plural. Singular nouns will be tagged <sg> and plural nouns will be tagged <pl>. The plural marker for nouns differs depending whether the noun is animate or inanimate.

Animate plural nouns take the suffix «ak».

• masq<n><na><pl> ↔ masqak

Inanimate plural nouns take the suffix «ash».

• apun<n><ni><pl> ↔ apunash

Possession

Possession is marked on the noun being possessed.