Editing Hadza language (section)

===Nouns and pronouns===
Nouns have grammatical gender (masculine and feminine) and number (singular and plural). They are marked by suffixes as follows:

{|class=wikitable
|-
! ||sg.||pl
|-
!m
| ||-bii
|-
!f
| -ko||-bee
|}
The feminine plural is used for mixed natural gender, as in ''Hazabee'' 'the Hadza'. For many animals, the grammatical singular is [[transnumeric]], as in English: ''dongoko'' 'zebra' (either one or a group). The masculine plural may trigger vowel harmony: ''dongobee'' 'zebras' (an individuated number), ''dungubii'' 'zebra bucks'. A couple of kin terms and the diminutive suffix ''-nakwe'' take ''-te'' in the m.sg., which is otherwise unmarked.

Gender is used metaphorically, with ordinarily feminine words made masculine if they are notably thin, and ordinarily masculine words made feminine if they are notably round. Gender also distinguishes such things as vines (m) and their tubers (f), or berry trees (f) and their berries (m). Mass nouns tend to be grammatically plural, such as ''atibii'' 'water' (cf. ''ati'' 'rain', ''atiko'' 'a spring').

The names reported for dead animals do not follow this pattern. Calling attention to a dead zebra, for example, uses the form ''hantayii'' (masculine ''hantayee'', plural (rare) ''hantayetee'' and ''hantayitchii''). This is because these forms are not nouns, but imperative verbs; the morphology is clearer in the imperative plural, when addressing more than one person: ''hantatate, hantâte, hantayetate, hantayitchate'' (substitute ''-si'' for final ''-te'' when addressing only men; see below for the verbal object suffixes ''-ta-, -a-, -eta-, -itcha-'').

====The copula====
The ''-pe'' and ''-pi'' forms of nouns often seen in the anthropological literature (actually ''-phee'' and ''-phii'') are [[Copula (linguistics)|copula]]r: ''dongophee'' 'they are zebras'. The copular suffixes distinguish gender in all persons as well as [[clusivity]] in the 1st person. They are:

{|class=wikitable
|-
! ||m.sg.||f.sg.||f.pl.||m.pl
|-
!1.ex
|rowspan=2|-nee ||rowspan=2|-neko ||-'ophee ||-'uphii
|-
!1.in
| -bebee||-bibii
|-
!2
| -tee||-teko||-tetee||-titii
|-
!3
| -a||-ako||-phee||-phii
|}
Forms with high vowels (''i, u'') tend to raise preceding mid vowels to high, just as ''-bii'' does. The 3.sg copula tends to sound like a ''-ya(ko)'' or ''-wa(ko)'' after high and often mid vowels: {{IPA|/oa, ea/}} ≈ {{IPA|[owa, eja]}}, and transcriptions with ''w'' and ''y'' are common in the literature. 

====Pronouns====
Personal and demonstrative pronouns are:

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Pronouns
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" |
! colspan="2" | singular
! colspan="2" | plural
|-
! {{small|masc}} || {{small|fem}}
! {{small|fem}} || {{small|masc}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | 1st<br>person
! {{small|exclusive}}
| rowspan="2" | ono
| rowspan="2" | onoko
| ôbee
| ûbii
|-
! {{small|inclusive}}
| onebee
| unibii
|-
! colspan="2" | 2nd person
| the
| theko
| ethebee
| ithibii
|-
! rowspan="4" | 3rd<br>person
! {{small|proximal}}
| hama
| hako
| habee
| habii
|-
! {{small|given}}
| bami
| bôko
| bee
| bii
|-
! {{small|distal}}
| naha
| nâko
| nâbee
| nâbii
|-
! {{small|invisible}}
| himiggê
| himiggîko
| himiggêbee
| himiggîbii
|}

There are some additional 3rd-person pronouns, including some compound forms. Adverbs are formed from the 3rd-person forms by adding locative ''-na'': ''hamana'' 'here', ''beena'' 'there', ''naná'' 'over there', ''himiggêna'' 'in/behind there'.