Dakelh has multiple systems of noun classification, several of which are realized on the verb. One of these, the system of absolutive or "gender" classifiers, consists of the prefixes , , and , which indicate that the absolutive argument (the subject of an intransitive verb or the object of a transitive verb) is round, stick-like, or areal/spatial, respectively. Some verbs can take any or none of these prefixes. Others can take only a subset or none at all. For example, the verb "to be white" has the forms: