my, your, his, her, etc., which reflects the gender and plurality of the person or persons. This is a synthetic feature found in other Semitic languages and also in unrelated languages such as Finnish (Uralic), Persian (Indo-European) and Turkish (Turkic). Moreover, unlike many other languages, Suret has virtually no means of deriving words by adding prefixes or suffixes to words. Instead, they are formed according to a limited number of templates applied to roots. Modern Assyrian, like Akkadian but unlike Arabic, has only "sound" plurals formed by means of a plural ending (i.e. no broken plurals formed by changing the word stem). As in all Semitic languages, some masculine nouns take the prototypically feminine plural ending (-tā). Possessive suffixes Although possessive suffixes are more convenient and common, they can be optional for some people and seldom used, especially among those with the Tyari and Barwari dialects, which take a more analytic approach regarding possession, just like English possessive determiners. The following are periphrastic ways to express possession, using the word betā ("house") as a base (in Urmian/Iraqi Koine): my house: betā-it dīyī ("house-of mine") your (masc., sing.) house: betā-it dīyux ("house-of yours") your (fem., sing.) house: betā-it dīyax ("house-of yours") your (plural) house: betā-it dīyōxun ("house-of yours") 3rd person (masc., sing.): betā-it dīyū ("house-of his") 3rd person (fem., sing.): betā-it dīyō ("house-of hers") 3rd person (plural): betā-it dīyéh ("house-of theirs") Stress Like English, Suret is a stress-timed language, but would mostly retain unreduced vowels (as in Arabic), although some dialects may be more syllable-timed. An example of stress timing is noticeable in the word "qat", an adverb clause conjunction which translates to "so that" – The 'a' sound in "qat" is unstressed and thus would turn into a schwa if one would place the stress in the next word of the sentence, so; "mīri qat āzekh" becomes "mīri qət āzekh" ("I said that we go"). Another example is observed in teen numerical range (13-19); In some dialects, the words "īštāser" (sixteen) or "arbāser" (fourteen), among other teen numbers, the typically stressed vowel in the middle (long A) is reduced to a schwa, hence "īštəser" and "arbəser", respectively. In native words, Suret almost always stresses the penultimate syllable. Although Suret, like all Semitic languages, is not a tonal language, a tonal stress is made on a plural possessive suffix -éh (i.e. dīyéh; "their") in the final vowel to tonally differentiate it