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A guide to Huduflutian gender and class
This public article was written by [Deactivated User], and last updated on 29 Jan 2017, 14:42.
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2. Gender And Class
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Huduflutian gender and class is one of the most confusing aspects of the language. The rest of the grammar is not too bad for an english speaker, if you can figure out what a collective is and which verbs are transitive. There are 2 genders, which nouns and adjectives have. Nouns also have 3 classes, and verbs have 4 classes. Let's start with the genders, which are the hardest. There are only two of them, left and right. Sometimes there is an order to this, but other times they are assigned seemingly randomly. Body parts are distinguished by which side of the body they are on. Implements are distinguished by the hand that wields them. Generally places in the north and west are viewed as left, while the south and east is viewed as right. The genders are used on the article affixes, the adjectives (which have their own gender but change when used of nouns of a different gender), and verbs. There are 3 noun classes, which are probably the easiest. Collective nouns represent a bunch of something, but can be singulative, which sometimes corresponds to a different English word, and plurative, the plural of that. Noncounted class is for anything you can't count, and the rarest of them all. Singular nouns are familiar from English, and they work in number like our nouns. Verb classes are almost as hard as genders. They are the Huduflutian strategy for avoiding pronouns. The first one is first person, used for verbs that generally I or we do. If you want to say another pronoun does that verb, you just have to hope that context works. Second and third person classes work the same way. Second/third person is even more imprecise, just sort of hinting that the verb isn't first person. If you really need to be specific, you can point to yourself or to the person you are talking to. Some verbs switch person when they switch tense, too! ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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