![]() seven cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, locative, instrumental, and vocative. ![]() two numbers: singular and plural singular is unmarked, the plural is marked by the suffix -gɭu, e.g., mane ‘house’ and manegɭu ‘houses’.two genders: rational and irrational rational nouns include men and deities irrational nouns include women, animals, objects, and everthing else.They are inflected for the following categories: This class of words includes common nouns, proper names, pronouns and adjectives. Postpositions are similar in function and meaning to prepositions in other languages. Kannada uses postpositions that are added to the end of noun phrases, usually after a case marker, to indicate time, location, instrumentality, and so forth. ![]() This can result in very long words such as Shivatatvaratnakara, the name of the world’s first encyclopedia. Like other Dravidian languages, it is agglutinative, which means that suffixes are added to stems to derive new words and to express various grammatical relationships. Kannada is a highly inflected language with a grammar that is similar to that of Tamil.
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