Adûnaic Noun Inflections
What they are and how they work.
While Adûnaic noun inflections work much like normal noun cases, they carry nuances unique to Tolkien’s languages and Adûnaic in particular.
There is a total of seven inflections:
Nominative.
The nominative is just the base word itself. It is used when the noun is not the subject or part of a verbal compound.
Subjective.
Used when the noun is the subject of the sentence. Not needed if the verb of the sentence has a prenominal prefix indicating the subject noun.
Objective.
Used only when the noun is part of a verbal compound. As a result, it is the rarest of the inflections.
Plural.
The plural of the base word.
Plural Subjective.
The Plural of a noun when it is the subject.
Dual
Used when indicating a pair of objects denoted by the noun, represented by the -at suffix.
Dual Subjective
Used when the noun indicating a pair of objects is the sentence. Uses the -ât suffix, which is the normal dual suffix but A-fortified.