Quenya/I-stems

Nouns in -ë with plural on -er
This group only contains four nouns: mallë "street",  rotsë "pipe",  tyávë "taste",  tyellë "grade". All nouns have t-duals, no u-duals are possible.

They are declined as follows (we use mallë "street"):

Nouns in -ë without I-stem
These normal nouns as e.g. aurë "day" keep this  –ë in all cases of the singular and in ablative, allative and locative in the plural. In the other cases of the plural this –ë changes into an  –i (we use  aurë "day"):

Nouns in -ë with I-stem
These nouns use –i in all cases except the nominative singular (we use  porë,  pori- "flour"):

Some I-stems have a completely irregular nominative singular:
 * lapattë, lapatsi- "rabbit"


 * mahtë, maxi- "hold, grip"


 * ohtë, oxi- "egg"


 * suhtë, suxi- "resin, gum"

A few remarks:
 * The noun ehtë "spear" can be inflected as an I-stem or as a noun without I-stem.
 * The noun lingwë "fish" has an alternative nominative singular  linwë. All other cases are formed with the stem  lingwi-.
 * The adjectives in –ë also belong to the I-stems, but one can only notice this when the adjective takes case endings (see ../Inflected adjectives/).

Nouns in -i
These nouns mostly denote female persons or animals (we use lopsi "mare"):

Nouns in -ië
All nouns have t-duals, no u-duals are possible (we use tië "path"):

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