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Nouns   Gender   There are two gramatical genders in Limciela: Masculine and Feminine. Words that were Neuter in Latin hace generally become masculine in Limciela. An unusual feature of Limciela is however that usually these neuter words take masculine singular endings in the singular and feminine singular endings in the plural for both the noun itself and its qualifying adjectives and articles, although they still use the plural forms of any verbs they govern. Such nouns are indicated in the table below by the use of the appropriate definite articles.     Number   There are two numbers in Limciela: Singularand Plural. Generally the letter s at the end of the word indicates plurality. This may be preceeded by the letter e in certain words according to which Latin declension the word derives from (see table below). Note that most masculine words of neuter origin indicate plurality with the use of the femenine singular ending a.   Declension and Gender Latin  Singular Latin  Plural Limciela Singular Limciela Plural 1st Feminine terra terrae la terra li terras 1st Feminine lingua linguae la lim li lims 2nd Masculine taurus tauri le taur li taurs 2nd Neuter vinum vina le bin la bina 3rd Masculine pater patres le paic li pacies 3rd Masculine rex reges le rex li rex 3rd Masculine fons fontes le fom li foms 3rd Feminine lex leges la lex li lex 3rd Feminine clavis claves la clab li clabes 3rd Feminine voluntas voluntates la bolonta le bolontes 3rd Feminine ratio rationes la raic le racies 3rd Neuter animal animalia le animal la animala 3rd Neuter nomen nomina le nom la noma 4th Masculine portus portus le portu li portus 4th Feminine dies dies la di li dies Adjectives   Agreement   Adjectives in Limciela agree with the nouns they qualify in both gender and number. As a general rule, adjectives have no special ending in the masculine singular, end in a in the feminine singular, end in es for the masculine plural and in as or es  in the femenine plural, according to whether they are derived from the 2nd or 3rd  Latin declensions. For adjectives qualifying neuter derived nouns the masculine singular form is used in the singular and the feminine singular form for the plural.   Masculine Singular Femenine  Singular Masculine Plural Femenine Plural grand granda grandes grandas vom vona vones vonas dulic dulcia dulcies dulcies felix felix felixes felixes Comparison   In regular adjectives the comparitive and superlative forms are made with the following suffixes attached to the masculine singular form:   Comparative singular: -ior Comparative plural: -iores Superlative singular: -isim (masc.), -isima (fem.) Superlative plural: -isims (masc.), -isimas (fem.)   The superlative forms of adjectives are usually preceeded by the definite article in the appropriate form.   Irregular Comparisons   The following table gives some examples of adjective which have irregular forms.     Masc. Sing. Comp. Sing. Comp. Pl. Sup. Masc. Sing. Sup. Fem. Sing. Sup. Masc. Pl. Sup. Fem. Pl. vom mexor mexores ottim ottima ottims ottimas mal peor peores pessim pessima pessims pessimas grand maior maiores maxim maxima maxims maximas parb minor minores minim minima minims minimas   Adverbs   Adverbs   Regular adverbs are formed by adding the ending mem to the feminine singular form of the adjective. Note that the preceeding a must bear the grave accent for the first m to be pronounced.   Fem. Sing. Adjective Adverb rapida rapidamem dulcia dulciamem lenta lentamem felix felixmem   The following are some irregular adverbs   Latin Limciela bene vem cito cit denique denip etiam eciam