<Tr> <Td> txakur polit - a </Td> <Td> (the / a) pretty dog </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> txakur polit - ak </Td> <Td> (the) pretty dogs </Td> </Tr> <P> The noun phrase is declined for 11 cases: Absolutive, ergative, dative, possessive - genitive, benefactive, comitative, instrumental, inessive, allative, ablative, and local - genitive . These are signaled by suffixes that vary according to the categories of Singular, Plural, Indefinite, and Proper Noun, and many vary depending on whether the stem ends in a consonant or vowel . The Singular and Plural categories are fused with the article, and these endings are used when the noun phrase is not closed by any other determiner . This gives a potential 88 different forms, but the Indefinite and Proper Noun categories are identical in all but the local cases (inessive, allative, ablative, local - genitive), and many other variations in the endings can be accounted for by phonological rules operating to avoid impermissible consonant clusters . Local case endings are not normally added to animate Proper Nouns . The precise meaning of the local cases can be further specified by additional suffixes added after the local case suffixes . </P> <P> Verb forms are extremely complex, agreeing with the subject, direct object, and indirect object; and include forms that agree with a "dative of interest" for intransitive verbs as well as allocutive forms where the verb form is altered if one is speaking to a close acquaintance . These allocutive forms also have different forms depending on whether the addressee is male or female . This is the only area in Basque grammar where gender plays any role at all . Subordination could also plausibly be considered an inflectional category of the Basque verb since subordination is signaled by prefixes and suffixes on the conjugated verb, further multiplying the number of potential forms . </P>

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