Nominal Structures of Uralic Languages

The verb must be present irrespectively from the semantic properties of the subject. The examples illustrate human, animate, and inanimate subjects. Note, however, that the subject must be non-specific, that is why a definite article, or a specific quantifier cannot appear.

Van	egy/a/minden	bácsi/fa/doboz	a	kert-ben.
be.3SG	a/the/every	old.man/tree/box	the	garden-INE

’There is an old man / tree / box in the garden.’

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