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Noun number
Nouns are inflected with suffixes to be singular or plural, depending on their grammatical gender classifications (animate or inanimate). Examples:

póósa ‘cat’

póósiksi  ‘cats’

í’ksisakoyi  ‘meat’

í’ksisakoistsi  ‘meats’

Possession
To denote possession of a noun, certain prefixes and suffixes are added. Example:

ookóówayi 'home'  →  kookóówayi  'your (singular) home'

Inflection of intransitive verbs
Intransitive verbs in Blackfoot are inflected with prefixes and/or suffixes to distinguish person.

Two first-person plurals exist in Blackfoot: ‘we’ including the addressee, and ‘we’ excluding the addressee (i.e. “us and you” and “us but not you”).

Blackfoot distinguishes between second-person plural and singular. Examples:

áakitapoo’pa ookóówaawayi  ‘we (including you) go to their house’

nitáakitapoohpinnaan ookóówaawayi  ‘we (not including you) go to their house’