Number: number
Number is an inflectional feature of nouns and other parts of speech (adjectives, verbs) that mark agreement with nouns.
In Kyrgyz, nouns (NOUN, PROP, PRON) and verbs may have the feature Number.
Note that, the number agreement between a subject noun and the predicate is not straightforward.
Plural nouns agree with predicates with both singular an plural
marking,
but singular nouns disagree with predicates with plural marking.
When subject is present, the singular form of the verb is preferred.
Otherwise, obligatory the person/number agreement marker indicates the Number feature of the subject (as well as Person).
In case plurality is indicated by a modifier, the noun does not get an explicit plural marker (see example 2 for Sing).
We mark Number=Plur only if there is an explicit morphological marker.
The Nuber feature should not be confused with Number[psor],
which indicates the whether possessor of a noun is singular or plural.
Sing: singular number
A single person or thing. There is no morphological marker for singular for nouns and verbs in 3rd person singular form.
Examples
- бир алма ‘one/an apple’
- үч алма ‘three apples’ – note the missing plural marker. *үч алмалар is ungrammatical.
Plur: plural number
More than one person or thing. On nouns plurality is indicated by suffix -лар. Plurality on verbs is indicated by a set of person/number suffixes which vary depending on the previous suffixes.
Examples
- алмалар ‘apples’ Окуучулар
- Окуучулар эртең китеп оку(ша)(й)т . ‘The students will read books tomorrow’ – the plural marker on the verb is optional.
Number in other languages: [ab] [arr] [bej] [bg] [bm] [bor] [cs] [cy] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [eu] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gn] [gub] [hbo] [hu] [hy] [it] [ka] [ky] [myv] [orv] [pcm] [ps] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj] [xcl]