| To a lesser extent, a noun's animacy or humanness may add another layer of complexity. |
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| The plural of the noun is usually obtained by adding a suffix, according to the noun's declension. |
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| Because French nouns are not inflected for gender, a noun's form cannot specify its gender. |
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| The case marking pattern for each noun being inflected depends on the noun's degree of animacy. |
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| Case is based fundamentally on changes to the noun to indicate the noun's role in the sentence. |
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| Inflection is the process of adding inflectional morphemes that modify a verb's tense or a noun's number, rarely affecting the word's meaning or class. |
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| There are seven Latin noun cases, which also apply to adjectives and pronouns and mark a noun's syntactic role in the sentence by means of inflections. |
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