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and verbs with their flexions, and in fact these may be said to
constitute the whole language.
The FLEXION COMPLETES THE PROCESS BY WHICH THE
LANGUAGE IS CAPABLE OF EXPRESSING A COMPARATIVLY LARGE
COMPOUND OF IDEAS IN A FEW WORDS. In general it
comprises:
(1) The number: singular, dual and plural. Plural can be
used instead of dual.
(2) For verbs the person.
(3) As to nouns the relation, and as to verbs the object
of the action is indicated by additions which have been termed
SUFFIXES.
(4) As to nouns whether they are object or subject in the
sentence (objective and subjective, the latter comprising the
genitive).
(5) As to nouns what in other languages is expressed by
prepositions, answering the questions: where, whence, what way,
whither and how, by forms or cases which may be called:
Localis, Ablative, Vialis, Terminalis and Modalis. Their endings
are called appositions.
(6) For verbs 7 moods: indicative, interrogative, optative
(imperative), conjunctive, subjunctive and participle.
But flexion neither comprises sex nor tense. For the latter
affixes can be used.
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