Don't have any grammatical noun gender. DO have lots of pronoun gender.

Nouns will need classes to determine what pronoun they get.

To mark a noun as the subject (nominative case), postfix "s". If the word already ends "...s", make it "...ssh".

Cases

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Nominative (subject)            postfix "...s" or "ës" or "sh"

Accusative (object)            postfix "...t"

Inessive   ("in"):            postfix "...ëdë"

Elative    ("from", or "for what reason (in the sense of 'due to what cause'")            postfix "...st"

Terminative ("to what place, point or end", or "for what reason (in the sense of 'to what end'")   

Comitative ("with, in company with, together with")

Translative ("becoming, changing to")   

Locative ("at or near")           

Essive ("as", "instead of" or "in place of")

Comparative ("like" or "in the manner of")

Instrumental ("Using")

Classification

• spatial relations: location (inclusion, exclusion, proximity), direction (origin, path, endpoint)
• temporal relations
• comparison: equality, opposition, price, rate
• content: source, material, subject matter
• agent
• instrument, means, manner
• cause, purpose
• Reference

Could also classify according to thematic roles or relations:

• Agent: deliberately performs the action (e.g. Bill ate his soup quietly)
• Experiencer: receives sensory or emotional input (e.g. The smell of lilies filled Jennifer's nostrils).
• Theme: undergoes the action but does not change its state (e.g. Bill kissed Mary). (Sometimes used interchangeably with patient)
• Patient: undergoes the action and has its state changed (e.g. The falling rocks crushed the car) (Sometimes used interchangeably with theme)
• Instrument: used to carry out the action (e.g. Jamie cut the ribbon with a pair of scissors).
• Natural Cause: mindlessly performs the action (e.g. An avalanche destroyed the ancient temple).
• Location: where the action occurs (e.g. Johnny and Linda played carelessly in the park).
• Goal: what the action is directed towards (e.g. The caravan continued on toward the distant oasis).
• Recipient: a special kind of goal associated with verbs expressing a change in ownership, possession. (e.g I sent John the letter)
• Source: where the action originated (e.g. The rocket was launched from Central Command).
• Time: the time at which the action occurs (e.g. The rocket was launched yesterday)
• Beneficiary: the entity for whose benefit the action occurs (e.g. I baked Reggie a cake)

A single case marker can assign more than one relation.