Number: number
| Values: | Sing | Plur |
This feature typically applies to nouns and other parts of speech that mark agreement with nouns, i.e pronouns, [adjectives] (bm-POS/ADJ) and determiners.
In Bamana, the number marking for non-human is often optional, so the absence of a plural marker does not necessarily mean it is singular.
There are two plural markers: -w and -lù. -lù is less frequent and can be added only to animate nouns.
Sing: singular
In the treebank, Number=Sing is not used with nouns but it occurs with pronouns.
Examples
- Cɛkɔrɔba n’a denw “old.man and his children”
Plur: plural
Examples
- Cɛkɔrɔba n’a denw “old.man and his children”
Number in other languages: [arr] [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [eu] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gn] [gub] [hbo] [hu] [hy] [it] [ka] [ky] [myv] [orv] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj]