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Suffix is called inflectional if it changes grammatical properties of the word without modifying its syntactic/lexical category, word class or part of speech. But many grammatical categories in Nûrlâm are expressed by clitics instead. Finally a table of common inflectional suffixes:
Suffix | Etymology | Meaning | Example |
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-â | Hurrian 3rd person suffix of transitive verb “-a”; compare with HORN suffix “-a” with meaning “one who does” | 3rd person singular verb suffix (only when subject of verb is a noun) | |
-ag | NL, in analogy with -ug — -uga | present passive participle | |
-aga | HG < misprint of EL -uga (see below) in VT 13 | past passive participle | |
-ar | LOS | comparative form of adjectives and adverbs | |
-at | TK, CBS, RI | gerundive | |
-az | LOS | superlative form of adjectives | |
-b | see -ob | genitive case for declension class II | |
-irz | NL < LOS “irzi” (by) | ergative case for declension class I | |
-irzi | LOS “irzi” (by) | instrumental case for declension class I | |
-ish | NL < LOS “izish” (me) | accusative case for declension class I | |
-ob | EL | genitive case for declension class I | |
-rz | see -irz | ergative case for declension class II | |
-rzi | see -irzi | instrumental case for declension class II | |
-sh | see -ish | accusative case for declension class II | |
-sha | TK, DBS, OC | comitative case | |
-si | NL < Quenya “sívë”, Sindarin “sui” (as, like) | essive case | |
-û | rare SV “-û”, LOS “-u” | plural number suffix for declension class I | |
-û | NL < AN “-ut” + rare SV “-û” (plural suffix) | 3rd person plural verb suffix (only when subject of verb is a noun) | |
-ub | AN | future tense suffix | |
-ug | EL, AA < TK DBS OC “pushdug” (stinking) | present active participle | |
-uga | EL, participle II | present passive participle | |
-ûr | EL | dative case for declension class I | |
-ut | NL | infinitive | |
-uz | LOS | past tense suffix | |
-z | EL | plural number suffix for declension class II | |
-zûr | NL < EL “-ûr” | dative case for declension class II |
This table contains only those case suffixes that belongs to grammatical and marginal case. For locative case endings see full chart of case postpositions.