| 1. | The inanimate nouns are further divided into natural and man-made.
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| 2. | There is also a locative case, normally used only with inanimate nouns.
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| 3. | Number is never marked in inanimate nouns or animals.
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| 4. | Vedda inanimate nouns are formed by borrowing Sinhalese adjectives and adding a suffix.
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| 5. | Inanimate nouns are never marked as obviative.
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| 6. | Obviation is only marked on Transitive Animate verbs, and there is no obviative marking on inanimate nouns or verbs.
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| 7. | Animate nouns have the accusative case like the genitive, and inanimate nouns have the accusative case like the nominative.
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| 8. | Inanimate nouns can be made plural by the suffix "-ha ", which replaces the singular inanimate suffixes listed above.
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| 9. | Obviative is marked on animate nouns as the suffix /-a / and on inanimate nouns as the suffix /-iliw /.
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| 10. | Some inanimate nouns never appear with a suffix classifier; in this case the sense of generality or unit is inferred from the context.
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