11. Animate nouns include all biologically animate entities, as well as some items not thought of as biologically animate.12. Generally, the most animate noun in a sentence must occur first while the noun with lesser animacy occurs second. 13. Animate nouns have the accusative case like the genitive, and inanimate nouns have the accusative case like the nominative.14. Also masculine animate nouns have accusative singular equal to the genitive singular ( in "-a " ). 15. The animate oblique is used only for human and animal nouns to mean with or at the animate noun . 16. In the Eastern standard of the Armenian language non-animate nouns take-x?t (-um ) for the locative. 17. Animate nouns include people, animals, heavenly bodies ( sun, moon, stars, but not clouds ), and spirits.18. If the obviated entity is an animate noun , it will be marked with an obviative suffix, typically-o or-�ho. 19. Obviative is marked on animate nouns as the suffix /-a / and on inanimate nouns as the suffix /-iliw /. 20. It's accusative; the form just happens to be identical to the genitive in masculine animate nouns that end with a consonant.
