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-====== Nouns and Articles ======+====== Lessons — Nouns and Articles ======
 The grammar of nouns in [[:Nûrlâm]] may be quite difficult, but we'll start from easy parts of it. Nouns in Nûrlâm do not have distinction in animacy, gender((kinda, you can specify biological gender of living creatures with //feminitive// suffix, but we'll discuss it in later lessons)) and even number! Yes, Nûrlâm do not have plural suffixes for nouns, moreover nouns are plural by default! For example "golug" may refer to one elf or many elves, but probably more than one. But how to specify that we are speaking about one person or object? Articles come to help! The grammar of nouns in [[:Nûrlâm]] may be quite difficult, but we'll start from easy parts of it. Nouns in Nûrlâm do not have distinction in animacy, gender((kinda, you can specify biological gender of living creatures with //feminitive// suffix, but we'll discuss it in later lessons)) and even number! Yes, Nûrlâm do not have plural suffixes for nouns, moreover nouns are plural by default! For example "golug" may refer to one elf or many elves, but probably more than one. But how to specify that we are speaking about one person or object? Articles come to help!
  
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 ===== Countable and uncountable nouns ===== ===== Countable and uncountable nouns =====
-Some nouns are uncountable, they are usually marked in the dictionary of Nûrlâm. You can't use indefinite article "ash" with uncountable nouns. However definite articles may be used with them.+Some nouns are uncountable, they are usually marked in the dictionary of Nûrlâm. You can't use indefinite article "ash" with uncountable nouns. However definite articles may be used with them. Don't worry much about memorizing the distinction between countable and uncountable nouns. If you can add a number before noun in English, than the noun in countable, if the result makes not much sense in English (e.g. "five waters"), than the noun is uncountable.
  
 ==== New words ==== ==== New words ====
 The following words are uncountable: The following words are uncountable:
   * burz (darkness)    * burz (darkness) 
-  * dug (filth)+  * dug (filth, dirt)
   * dush (sorcery, witchcraft)   * dush (sorcery, witchcraft)
   * ghâsh (fire)   * ghâsh (fire)
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