Of course, the quantifier may also directly take a Noun Phrase (NP) as its complement in a simple attributive construction:

The attributive construction never features quantifiers in which nominalisation has been made morphologically visible by the addition of the suffix -n:

The partitive construction occasionally features quantifiers in which nominalisation has been made morphologically visible by the addition of the suffix -n:

Other quantifiers showing the same type of variation include: somlike some, inkelde (a) few. The quantifier ferskate several is never spelled with -n in the partitive construction.

Frisian orthography maintains a fairly strict one-to-one relation between writing the -n and pronouncing it. Dutch features complicated rules for writing the -n (which is generally not pronounced), which are often not adhered to. It is unclear whether variation in writing the -n in Frisian is due to Dutch influence of whether it reflects variation inherent to spoken Frisian, or both. The presence or absence of the -n correlates with at least three factors: the type of construction, the type of denotation (referring to persons or not) and the type of quantifier.