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* ''Anzhela'' [Angela], ''Anzhelo'' [Angelo] | * ''Anzhela'' [Angela], ''Anzhelo'' [Angelo] | ||
* ''Thamir'' [Samir], ''Elen'' [Ellen] | * ''Thamir'' [Samir], ''Elen'' [Ellen] | ||
===Adjectives=== | |||
====Verbal attributes==== | |||
Just like nouns, adjectives show a declension for case and number. They are distinguished by the -a ending that follows the root. | |||
* ''Ven''~ [Aspect of victory], ''Ven''-a/ay/an/ayn [Victorious/a] | |||
Adjectives come before the noun they attach to, and always agree with it in case and number. | |||
* ''Bon’homo'' [Good man], Bonay homoy [Good men] | |||
It must be mentioned that adjectives alone are just adnominal forms of the correspondent verb. To derive a more abstract concept or property from the root the suffix -al- is used (cfr. 2.7.3,3). | |||
* ''Viva'' [Who lives], ''Vivala'' [Concerning life] | |||
====Numerals==== | |||
There are nine base numeral roots: un-, du-, thi-, ku-, pin-, es-, et-, ok- and non-, which of course stands for the nine digits. These can be suffixes as normal roots. | |||
* ''Uno'' [One], ''una milo'' [One apple], ''une'' [Only] | |||
Furthermore, there are roots for ten, one hundred, ten thousands and a hundred of millions, which are “dek-“, “then-“, “kil-” and “mun-“. Orthographically, a space is usually placed after a multiple. | |||
* ''Thidek uno'' = 30 + 1 = 31 | |||
* ''Dudek then dek kuo'' = 30 * 100 + 10 + 2 = 2014 | |||
When people count things aloud, usually the suffixation is left out and bare roots are used, instead. | |||
* ''Un, du, thi!'' [One, two, three!] | |||
The ending -a is used to count things, exactly like they are used in English. Numerals are not verbal attributes and therefore they don’t agree with their head noun in case and number. | |||
* ''Thia miloy'' [Three apples] | |||
The suffix -az is used for ordinal numbers. They explain the numerical order or hierarchy of a definite list of elements. | |||
* ''Nonaz'' [Ninth]; Pinaz [Fifth] | |||
The ending -e is used in a similar fashion to the English adjectives “single”, “double”, “triple” and so on. They as well are not verbal attributes. | |||
* ''Thiehomaro'' [Triumvirate] | |||
The ending -il is used to obtain multipliers, similarly to the English adverbs “once” and “twice”, but they are extended to every number. | |||
* ''Kuil'' [Four times] | |||
The suffix -er is used to derive distributes. These rather denote that the number belongs to each of several persons or things. | |||
* ''Kuer'' [Four at four, four per unit] | |||
Dates are listed from general to specific like most East-Asian languages. The formal standard date includes year, month and day. The word for “Month” is “dalo”, the word for year is “yono”, but their endings are left out in the date format. Names of months are capitalized. | |||
* ''Dudek then dek kuyon, Kudal, dudek pin'' [April, 25th 2014] | |||
* ''2014, Kudal 25'' [April, 25th 2014] | |||
===Verbs=== | |||
The verb is the part of the speech used to describe an action performed by a subject or a property held by it. It is conjugated for tense (present, past or future), diathesis and mood. | |||
Finite verbs show the ending -s. There are three time seeds, which are used to specify the tense: -a- for present, -i- for past, -o- for future and -u- for hypothetical. | |||
Present indicative is made up with the root followed by the present time seed and the finite ending. | |||
* ''Mi kalas'' [I am beautiful] | |||
As previously mentioned, past and future tenses are obtained by using the correspondent time seeds. | |||
* ''Mi dokos al ti'' [I will teach you] | |||
The present tense can be used to give information about universal truth or gnomic statements. Some universal truths concerning the initial default state of a being require the past tense. | |||
* ''Ta leo yalas'' [Lions are yellow] (All the lions are yellow) | |||
* ''M’italis'' [I am Italian, lit. I have been Italian] (I am born Italian) | |||
The time seed -u- is used to state hypothetical truths and improbable situations happening in the near future. | |||
* ''Si m’italis m’albus'' [If I were Italian I’d be white] | |||
The finite ending -u is used for the volitive mood. These are not truths but rather expression of wishes, speculative situations or direct orders. | |||
* ''T’iru!'' [Vai!] | |||
The diathesis suffix -nt- is used to create an active participle stem, that can be furthermore conjugated as a finite verb or suffixed as a noun, adverb or adjective. | |||
* ''Edanta homo'' [Man who eats lit. eating man]. | |||
* ''Edinta homo'' [Man who has eaten]. | |||
* ''M’edantas'' [I am eating]. | |||
* ''Edanto'' [The one who eats]. | |||
English past perfect is translated as a past active participle afterwards conjugated in the past tense. | |||
* ''M’edintis'' [I had eaten lit. I was one who has eaten] | |||
The diathesis suffix -t- is used to create passive participles. These can be conjugated or suffixes as well just like their active counterparts. Passives are used way more frequently than they are in English. | |||
* ''Gi dokatas'' [It is taught] | |||
* ''Gi dokitas'' [It was taught] | |||
* ''Dokata matharo'' [The taught discipline] | |||
Eventually, the mood ending -i is used to obtain infinitives. Unlike most languages (but similarly to English), infinitives can be suffixed for diathesis and tense. | |||
* ''Doki'' [Teach]; ''Dokari'' (nor. dokati) [To be taught]; ''Dokanti'' [To be teaching] | |||