Thank you for this, by the way. Learning languages is one of the most fun activities in the world, and having a friends list full of people who don't mind going into detail about linguistics makes it even better!
And yes, the gender differences are mostly gone from the plural. The definite article suffix is -na for both, and plural adjectives all end in -a. But at least for regular nouns the gender makes some difference in how the plural itself is formed.
Miscellaneous. Eclectic. Random. Perhaps markedly literate, or at least suffering from the compulsion to read any text that presents itself, including cereal boxes.
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Date: 2006-12-17 11:58 pm (UTC)And yes, the gender differences are mostly gone from the plural. The definite article suffix is -na for both, and plural adjectives all end in -a. But at least for regular nouns the gender makes some difference in how the plural itself is formed.