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Rh These suffixes, divided into four categories, may be:—


 * 1. Suffixes expressing number.
 * 2.  case.
 * 3.  person.
 * 4.  place and direction.

There are two numbers; a singular and a plural.

The plural is formed by adding -k to nouns ending with a, vowel; or -ak, -ok, -ek, -ök to nouns ending with a consonant. In forming the plural the following rules are to be observed:—

a and e at the end of a noun become lengthened in the plural; as fa (tree), plural fák; eke (plough), plural ekék.

Nouns ending with a consonant preceded by á or é shorten these vowels in the plural; excepting those ending in -ság, -ség, or -gás, -gés; and a few monosyllable nouns—e.g.

While the following remain unaltered:—

If the final consonants of the last two syllables in polysyllabic nouns would admit an easy pronunciation without the