---
layout: feature
title: 'Animacy'
shortdef: 'animacy'
---

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation
for `Animacy`.

---
layout: feature
title: 'Animacy'
shortdef: 'animacy'
---

In contrast to some other languages, the Slovenian tagset does not consider `Animacy` to be a lexical feature, as certain types of inanimate nouns, such as institutions, personified objects, brand names etc., often take on both semantic and grammatical features of animate nouns.

Animacy is thus only marked as an inflectional feature of [masculine](Gender) [nouns](NOUN) and [proper nouns](PROPN) to distinguish between animate and inanimate word forms in [accusative](Case) [singular](Number) for , e.g. _Odstrigla si je <b>koder</b>._ "She cut off a curl." (inanimate) vs. _Videla je <b>kodra</b>._ "She saw a poodle." (animate).

#### Anim: animate

`Animate` value is attributed to masculine nouns in accusative singular usually ending in -a:

* _človeka_ "man", _delfina_ "dolphin", _Davida_ "David", _ministra_ "minister"

Note that grammatical animatness can also apply to semantically inanimate nouns, such as car names, personified objects, brand names, card names etc.

* _Renaulta_ "Renault", _pomivalca_ "washing machine", _bordojca_ "Bordeaux wine", _asa_ "ace" etc.


Add content and remove Inanim
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