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===Constituent order===
===Constituent order===


Tsrovesh sentence structure is SVO and head-final, except for complementizer phrases and prepositional phrases (think Chinese). Tsrovesh is not zero-copula; the word for 'to live' is used as a copula. Word order is strict, and topicalization occurs with the suffix ''-eti''.
Tsrovesh sentence structure is SVO and head-final, except for complementizer phrases and prepositional phrases (think Chinese). Word order is strict, and topicalization occurs with the suffix ''-eti''.


===Noun phrase===
===Noun phrase===