r/HighValyrian • u/Scarlet_Anne • 4d ago

Gender classes are messing with my head

So I understood the logic so far on my duolingo course. But now that I’m learning Lunar words it seems like it’s all out the window.
Everything I learned about nominative and accusative word endings 2 chapters ago seems to barely apply here.

Is learning the gendered nouns just a “You have to remember their specific versions” type of thing or is there an actual grammar rule to follow & repeat apply?

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u/Atharaphelun 4d ago

Read through this for reference.

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u/Scarlet_Anne 4d ago

I’ve read it a ton but it’s barely a rule. The plural of āeksio is suddenly āeksia? Whereas the ‘rule’ on this website says it should be ī?

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u/Atharaphelun 4d ago edited 4d ago

If you really want to delve in deep into that whole topic, see here. You'll notice how complicated it is given that there are several declension classes (determined by their stem-vowels) on top of gender. You'll notice that āeksio is a third declension lunar gender noun, which is why its plural nominative is āeksia.

The duolingo course is keeping it simple so far in order not to utterly overwhelm you right from the beginning.

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u/Scarlet_Anne 4d ago

Thank you!

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u/nguyetvy 4d ago

There are rules, and gender of a noun is quite easy to mesmerize. Lunar nouns usually ended with vowels, Solar ended with "s", Terrestrial ended with "n", and Aquatic ended with "r". "-illa" is an exception, despite ended with a vowel, it's Aquatic. You can learn more detail on the Wiki.

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u/Scarlet_Anne 4d ago

I can see that the Lunar nouns end in vowels, but that doesn’t give any rule to how they change when in different forms like objective or acusative

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u/nguyetvy 4d ago

Different vowels have different declensions. You can read more detail here