Morphology
Karaim morphology is suffixing and highly agglutinating. The Karaim language lacks prefixes and uses postpositions. Nouns are inflected for seven cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, locative, and instrumental, which is rare in other Turkic languages). A notable feature of verb conjugation in Karaim is the possibility of abbreviated forms, as shown below for the verb, “to take” (Németh 2003): Long form Short form 1.sg. ał-a-myn ał-a-m 2.sg. ał-a-syn ał-a-s 3.sg. ał-a-dyr ał-a-d ~ ał-a-dy 1.pl. ał-a-byz --- 2.pl. ał-a-syz --- 3.pl. ał-dyr-łar ał-d-łar ~ ał-dy-łar
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