Nouns are inflected for four categories&colon; the subordinative, possessive, locative and vocative. The contemporative has both coordinative and subordinative functions depending on context. Third person possession of inalienable nouns tends to be conveyed using a subordinative derivational suffix. Complex major sentences can either be coordinative or subordinative. A compound can be "subordinative"&colon; the prefix is in logical connection with the suffix. The definite subordinative suffixes are -ahl, -ihl and ohl. Tafsir al-Baydawi mentions an entire host of angels of death, subordinative to Azrael.