Bare Form

Nouns do not differentiate singular or plural by default. The bare form indicates any amount larger than zero, which can be specified further with numbers.

Numbers with units and counters are treated as modifiers. The head noun is turned into its genitive form (-e) while the number and units are placed after it.

Specific Numbers

Placing two numbers next to each other results in the value of their sum. Multiplication is done by changing the final -a with an -o and can only be done consecutively to the next larger decimal.

Number Affixes & Operations

Relative Numbers

The quantifiers oliga and miria don't tell you an exact amount, they just give you a vague idea about how many there are relative to the usual or expected amount.

The quantifiers hemi, pan, and amfo are used to convey information about the population.

With hemi, the sentence is highlighting that there exist cats that eat fish and cats that don't eat fish. By using the word pan, this sentence is stating a current fact that every individual cat that currently exists (i.e. each of the 400 million cats on Earth as of 2022) has eaten, is eating, or will eat a more-than-zero amount of fish at some point in their life. However, it might be possible that a new cat born today will never eat fish.

A more robust way of making generalization is by using the indeterminate amfo, 'any', to refer to every possible member of a category.

This statement applies to both real and hypothetical cats. It would mean that the act of eating a fish is inevitable for a cat in this world, i.e. "under current situation, it is impossible to get a cat to never eat fish".

We can add the word persei, 'logically, by definition' or 'it must be that', at the start to make the generalization absolute.

This statement is saying that the act of eating fish is an absolute criteria or essence for our concept or definition of what counts as a cat. I.e. under any situation, if something does not eat fish, then it is not a cat.