![]() Within personal pronouns and subject agreementinflections on verbs, gender is distinguished in second person as well as third.Most Tigrinya adjectives, like those in Tigre and Ge'ez, have feminine and plural (both genders) forms. Adjectives behave in most ways like nouns.As in Tigre and Ge'ez (as well as Arabic), noun plurals may be formed through internal changes ('broken' plural) as well as through the addition of suffixes. Tigrinya nouns have plural, as well as singular, forms, though the plural is not obligatory when the linguistic or pragmatic context makes the number clear.However, most inanimate nouns do not have a fixed gender. A Tigrinya noun is treated as either masculine or feminine.Grammatically, Tigrinya is a typical Ethiopian Semitic (ES) language in most ways:
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