ke-va	‘going’
ka-porhe	‘studying’

Agent Noun

The singular agent noun is fomred by adding the agentive abato verbal nouns. Note that tense suffix can be added to the verb root.

kidun aba ‘one who goes’ kidunji aba ‘one who will go’ kecho aba ‘one who is sick, patient’

The plural is formed by adding the plural marker atum to the verbal noun.

kevaatum ‘those who come’

Gender

A two-way distinction of gender is made in human and animate nouns, viz., masculine and feminine. In human nouns, gender is marked in three ways. Among kinship terms gender is marked lexically in most of the terms.

po pey ‘father’   ‘mother’   phu phi ‘grandfather’   ‘grandmother’ ik ni ‘elder brother’   ‘elder sister, etc.’   penan  picho ‘husband’   ‘wife’   pincho  arlocho ‘man, male’ ‘woman, female;

In other kinship terms, gender is marked by adding the attributes -po ‘male and pi ‘female’ to free or bound base nouns.

chopo chopi ‘son’   ‘daughter’   hemepo hemepi ‘widower’   ‘widow’   tepo tepi ‘father’s sister’s   ‘elder brother’s   son (elder) wife, etc.’ korpo   korpi   ‘father’s sister’s ‘wife’s younger son (younger)   sister, etc.’   armopo armopi ‘daughter-in-law’s   ‘daughter-in-law’s mother’   jirpo jirpi ‘boy-friend’   ‘girl-friend’   arnam(po) arnampi ‘God’  ‘Goddess’

In the following example, the word for ‘man, male’ pincho is masculine and the word for ‘woman, female’ arlocho is female.