Plural has three forms according to the type of nouns.

The pupils had been asked to learn a list of collective nouns and were being tested on them.

Only a very small number of nouns remain in this declension.

In Carrier, the great majority of such nouns are either body parts or kinship terms.

The spelling rules given above are also very similar to those for the plural of nouns.

An example in English is the creation of initial-stress-derived nouns.

Under these circumstances the case system aligns with that of most English nouns.

The following is a general classification of most nouns.

It has seven cases that can be used across five classes of nouns:

The majority of true nouns are not inflected for number, and there is no case marking.