Generally, animate masculine nouns take ان -ā́n in plural, and inanimate ones take ونه -úna. Likewise, it may be contraindicated by use of the word for 'one', يو as in 'يو روغتون' - 'a hospital'.Ĭlass 1 Masculine nouns But when necessary, definiteness may be indicated by other means such as demonstratives. Animate nouns' gender agrees with biological gender regardless of the ending. Gender of a noun is indicated by its ending.

There are two genders: masculine and feminine. in ergative construction), and the ablative case is used with certain prepositions and with some numerals. The oblique case is used as prepositional case as well as in the past tense as the subject of transitive verbs (i.e. Pashto inflects nouns into four grammatical cases: direct, oblique, ablative (also known as oblique II) and vocative.

When هر /har, ar/ 'every' precedes the indefinite pronouns, the combination can mean everyone, everything, each one.

In order to distinguish sentences with indefinites from questions, یو /yaw/ 'one' may be added, to yield یو څوک /yaw ʦok/ 'someone' and یو څه /yaw ʦə/ 'something'.

Note: هغه as a demonstrative pronoun (that) has initial stress whereas the personal pronoun (he, she, it) has final stress.

35.1.3.2.2 Negative placement in the perfective verb phrase.

35.1.3.2.1 The verbal group in general Pashto.

28.3 Mixed ablative case and oblique cases.

15.2.1 Compound transitive verbs - split agreement.

14.2 3rd Person Past Singular Masculine.

3.1.3 Class I forms with stem allomorphy.

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