Diminutives are generally constructed with suffixes applied to the noun stem.

With the exception of class 15, noun class prefixes are directly attached to the noun stem.

The second class of nouns consists of free morphemes, and can be broken down into smaller subclasses based on the origin of the noun stem.

Use with a preceding noun stem:

Nouns are generally composed of a noun stem with a following number suffix.

Several noun stem have reduplicated stem material appearing between the stem and the number suffix.

If the noun stem to which this suffix is added happens to ends with a vowel, the stem-final vowel is dropped or changed.

The tones of Gbe nouns are often affected by the consonant of the noun stem.

This prefix is known as a noun-class prefix, and the rest of the word is called the noun stem.

The choice of allomorph for a particular word is determined by the final phoneme of the noun stem.