Telehe Nouns

Nouns in Telehe decline for five case Nominative, Accusative, Genitive I, Genitive II and Ablative, with two numbers Singular and Plural, and are categorized into three genders Masculine, Feminine and Neuter.

Gender
There are three genders in Telehe, namely Inanimate, Animate and Human.

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

priest-NOM eat-3sg-CVB sweet_bread-ACC

'The priest is eating sweet bread'yaš yere-č bode-š

1SG.NOM book-ACC read-1SG

'I read the book'

Genitive
Divided into two Genitives, the genitive I is -l it means nominal dependency and possession, while the genitive II means addressee in dedications, composition, origin and apposition with the suffix -su, sometimes Genitive II assumes dative functions, depending on the phrase and the addressee.tērē-su yom

cow-GEN horn

'cow horn'

Ablative
It indicates a location, where, in, on, at and by, marked with -pu.

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.