1. The inanimate nouns are further divided into natural and man-made. 2. There is also a locative case, normally used only with inanimate nouns . 3. Number is never marked in inanimate nouns or animals. 4. Vedda inanimate nouns are formed by borrowing Sinhalese adjectives and adding a suffix. 5. Inanimate nouns are never marked as obviative.6. Obviation is only marked on Transitive Animate verbs, and there is no obviative marking on inanimate nouns or verbs. 7. Animate nouns have the accusative case like the genitive, and inanimate nouns have the accusative case like the nominative. 8. Inanimate nouns can be made plural by the suffix "-ha ", which replaces the singular inanimate suffixes listed above.9. Obviative is marked on animate nouns as the suffix /-a / and on inanimate nouns as the suffix /-iliw /. 10. Some inanimate nouns never appear with a suffix classifier; in this case the sense of generality or unit is inferred from the context.
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