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| - | ====== Grammatical number ====== | ||
| - | While category of number exists in majority of languages of the Earth, it is not native to Black Speech. It's believed by some linguists that it was absent in Black Speech. This opinion is based upon using the word " | ||
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| - | ===== In Nûrlâm ===== | ||
| - | Nouns and adjectives do not have category of number. By default they are considered **plural**. Therefore exact numbers (like in //ash nazg//) and quantifier words (i.e. //some//, //few//, //many//) are used more often than in European languages. However, verbs can carry information about number of subject in 3rd person and of object if it's 3rd person [[clitic]] pronoun. | ||
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