| 11. | Animate nouns include all biologically animate entities, as well as some items not thought of as biologically animate.
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| 12. | Generally, the most animate noun in a sentence must occur first while the noun with lesser animacy occurs second.
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| 13. | Animate nouns have the accusative case like the genitive, and inanimate nouns have the accusative case like the nominative.
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| 14. | Also masculine animate nouns have accusative singular equal to the genitive singular ( in "-a " ).
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| 15. | The animate oblique is used only for human and animal nouns to mean with or at the animate noun.
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| 16. | In the Eastern standard of the Armenian language non-animate nouns take-x?t (-um ) for the locative.
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| 17. | Animate nouns include people, animals, heavenly bodies ( sun, moon, stars, but not clouds ), and spirits.
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| 18. | If the obviated entity is an animate noun, it will be marked with an obviative suffix, typically-o or-�ho.
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| 19. | Obviative is marked on animate nouns as the suffix /-a / and on inanimate nouns as the suffix /-iliw /.
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| 20. | It's accusative; the form just happens to be identical to the genitive in masculine animate nouns that end with a consonant.
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