Animacy: animacy
Animacy
Animacy in Pomak is an inflectional feature of adjectives, pronouns and participles that mark agreement with masculine nouns in plural number (mainly).
Hum: human
Examples
- mládi afkátje / doktórje / lenǧepére “young lawers / doctors / farmers”
- húbavi / lóši / dívi insán “good / bad / savage people”
- stári lǘdje “old people”
- umaréni ergáte “tired workers”
- sǽ kakví tüǧáre “every kind of merchants”
- náši paznáti / arkadáše “our acquaintances / friends”
- izučéni mástare “ trained craftsmen”
-
itúzešni afčáre “local shepherds”
- strášni kumandáre “terrible comanders”
- kámatni junáci “beautiful lads”
- blízni komšúje “nearby neighbours”
- duléčni müsefíre “distant visitors”
- plástavi šefére “careless drivers”
As explicitly Animate can be considered the masculine accusative forms of the following pronouns:
- kutróga (_nó kutróga, ní kutróga, sǽ kutróga) “whom (somene, no one, every one)”
- annóga / ennóga “a / one / someone”
- bannóga “someone”
- bárennoga “nobody”
- kóga “whom”
Nhum: non-human
Examples
- jódry / húbavy hórehy “big / good walnuts”
- dívy hajváne “wild annimals”
- stáry póteve “old roads”
- sǽ kakvý górmove any kind of trees”
- gulǽmy dükǽnove / mečíteve “big shops / schools”
- čórny óblaky “dark clouds [lit: black clouds]”
- gládny vólkove “hungry wolves”
- nóvy telifónove “new telephones”
- apráty kavádeve “washed shirts”
- vóstry nóžove “sharp knives”
- kalčíšny sakúleve “linen sacks”
- plátneny ameníje “plimsolls [lit: cloth-shoes]”
- tomofílevy nahtáreve “car keys”
Animacy in other languages: [bg] [cs] [hy] [ka] [qpm] [quc] [ru] [sl] [u] [uk] [urb] [xcl]