Neuter-nouns are only used to describe inanimate objects and plants without gender. Without additional steps, while biconsonantal Neuter nouns can have a long vowel (-â, -î, -û, -ô, -ê) as their base vowel, triconsonantal neuter nouns never end in a long vowel. The reason is that the long vowels are usually used for markers of gender, though there is the rare case due to compounds (e.g. nimriyê, “elvish language”). If they use a long vowel, it is usually [â] as part of the finally syllable (batân, “road, path, pathway”). Otherwise, they end in a short vowel by default (i.e. Strong-nouns).