Salute, Jonathan!/Grammar (nouns)
No single obligatory ending for nouns
[edit | edit source]Occidental does not have a single obligatory ending for nouns, as is often the case in constructed languages.
Examples: castelle (castle), benedition (blessing/benediction), nebul (cloud).
The common -e ending
[edit | edit source]The -e neutral final vowel is extremely common and used for many reasons, such as:
- To show that the word is a noun, and not another type of word such as an adjective. Examples: scrit (written) vs. scrite (something written), vocal (vocal) vs. vocale (vowel), mortal (mortal), mortale (a mortal).