{"id":101,"date":"2009-12-08T01:12:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T06:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2019-05-07T15:30:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T19:30:27","slug":"inflections-number","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eastcree.org\/cree\/en\/grammar\/northern-dialect\/nouns\/inflections-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Number Inflection"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Nouns inflected for Number<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n
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\u140a\u1427\u140b\u1511\u1525<\/td>\n\"Click<\/td>\nawaashish<\/td>\na child<\/td>\nSINGULAR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u140a\u1427\u140b\u1511\u1511\u14a1<\/td>\n\"Click<\/td>\nawaashishich<\/td>\nchildren<\/td>\nPLURAL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The word above comes in two forms: \u140a\u1427\u140b\u1511\u1525<\/span> awaashish<\/span> and \u140a\u1427\u140b\u1511\u1511\u14a1<\/span> awaashishich<\/span>. The second form is made up of the first form plus an ending: awaashish + ich<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The form \u140a\u1427\u140b\u1511\u1525<\/span> awaashish<\/span> is called the stem of the noun. When the form \u140a\u1427\u140b\u1511\u1525<\/span> awaashish<\/span> is used without any ending, it is called SINGULAR. It means that there is just one. When the second form \u140a\u1427\u140b\u1511\u1511\u14a1<\/span> awaashishich<\/span> is used, with the ending -ich<\/span> , it is called PLURAL, and it means that there is more than one. This appears clearly when you use ‘one’, ‘two’ or ‘three’ with the noun:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u1439\u1528\u1484 \u140a\u1427\u140b\u1511\u1525<\/td>\n\"Click<\/td>\npaayikw awaashish<\/td>\none child<\/td>\n(singular)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u14c3\u1513 \u140a\u1427\u140b\u1511\u1511\u14a1<\/td>\n\"Click<\/td>\nniishu awaashishich<\/strong><\/td>\ntwo children<\/td>\n(plural)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u14c2\u1525\u1450 \u140a\u1427\u140b\u1511\u1511\u14a1<\/td>\n\"Click<\/td>\nnishtu awaashishich<\/strong><\/td>\nthree children<\/td>\n(plural)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This distinction between one and more than one is called NUMBER. Some nouns take another ending for their plural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\u14a5\u1505\u148b\u14ef\u14d0<\/td>\n\"Click<\/td>\nmischisin<\/td>\na shoe<\/td>\n\u140a\u1525\u1450\u144e\u14d0<\/td>\n\"Click<\/td>\nashtutin<\/td>\na hat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u14a5\u1505\u148b\u14ef\u14d0\u1426<\/td>\n\"Click<\/td>\nmischisinh<\/strong><\/td>\nshoes<\/td>\n\u140a\u1525\u1450\u144e\u14d0\u1426<\/td>\n\"Click<\/td>\nashtutinh<\/strong><\/td>\nhats<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Nouns like \u140a\u1427\u140b\u1511\u1525<\/span> awaashish<\/span> are called ANIMATE Nouns and like \u14a5\u1505\u148b\u14d0<\/span> mischin<\/span> are called INANIMATE Nouns (see Gender<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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APA:<\/td>\nJunker, M.-O., Salt, L., & Visitor, F. (2013). East Cree Nouns (Northern Dialect).<\/span> [Revised from 2002 original edition] In The Interactive East Cree Reference Grammar. Retrieved from [URL]<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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MLA:<\/td>\nMarie-Odile Junker, Luci Salt and Frances Visitor. East Cree Nouns (Northern Dialect).<\/span> [Revised from 2002 original edition] In The Interactive East Cree Reference Grammar. 2013. Web. [date]<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Nouns inflected for Number Observation \u140a\u1427\u140b\u1511\u1525 awaashish a child SINGULAR \u140a\u1427\u140b\u1511\u1511\u14a1 awaashishich children PLURAL The word above comes in two forms: \u140a\u1427\u140b\u1511\u1525 awaashish and \u140a\u1427\u140b\u1511\u1511\u14a1 awaashishich. The second form is made up of the first form plus an ending: awaashish + ich. The form \u140a\u1427\u140b\u1511\u1525 awaashish is called the stem of the noun. When the… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":93,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcree.org\/cree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcree.org\/cree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcree.org\/cree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcree.org\/cree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcree.org\/cree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcree.org\/cree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14285,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcree.org\/cree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions\/14285"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcree.org\/cree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastcree.org\/cree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}