Appendix:Garo nouns

This page attempts to uncover nouns and nominals found in Garo, a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Northeast India and Bangladesh. Garo lacks classification of nouns (e.g no gender, countability, or animacy). However, they are modified in many ways.

The rules below apply to collective nouns as well.

Casing
Garo has a rich set of available cases. Nouns can be declined in these cases simply by adding specific suffixes to its nominative form (which is the default form of the word).

Note that suffixes can vary across different dialects. For instance, is sometimes interpreted as  in some dialects.

When the nominative form of a noun ends with a vowel or, the suffixes are most of the time replaced with the intended case suffix to decline. E.g and  decline into  and  respectively.

Plurality
Plurality of a noun in Garo can be indicated with the suffix. For example, can be converted into  when plural. There is hardly any irregularity about pluralising nouns in Garo.

Not adding to a word in Garo does not explicitly state that the noun is singular. When singularity has to be explicit, classifiers have to be used.

Nominalisation
Garo does not support the use of of adjectives. Instead, verbs are nominalised with the suffix to indicate modification of a noun. roughly translates to "the thing that". For instance, "big" can be translated as, because means "be big".