Telehe Nouns

Nouns in Telehe decline for five case Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative and Locative, with two numbers Singular and Plural, and are categorized into two genders Animate and Inanimate.

Gender
There are two genders in Telehe:


 * Inanimate - Non moving and living things: bamu "sand", itē "root".
 * Animate - Moving and living things: tlefe "priest", atta "father".

Cases
Telehe as an inflected language, i.e. the endings of most of its words change depending on their function in a sentence. Features the following cases Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative and Locative.

Nominative
The nominative case is used for the subject of an active or a passive verb:

Asays īčīste asoč = The king drank honey.

Accusative
The accusative case is used for the object of a sentence:

Tlefe glazrē īdenč = The priest pets the dog.

Genitive
Used for possessives, composition, reference and apposition:

Tērēsu yom = Horn of cow.

Dative
The dative case means "to" or "for". It is frequently used with verbs of saying or giving as an indirect object:

Tey ōzdeste myamyal gōve = She gave a flower to mommy.

Locative
The locative case talks about location, equivalent to english "at", "in".

Yaš tiš tlefe īlzazbu = I saw the priest at the temple.

Adjectives

 * -yicu - from the root to be similar, it is an suffix similar to the -ly in English.

Some exceptions
Sometimes when two words connect to form a new one and these words form a long string of vowels an intrusive h is inserted between them.