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 Sometimes you want to say something belongs to something else. You turn a noun into a possessive noun to do so. If we have someone named ''Klaid'' (Clyde in English), we make it a possessive by inserting an ''l'' after the last vowel. ''klaid'' becomes ''klaild''. So 'Cylde's tree' is translated as ''geeth klaild''.
+==== Prepositional Phrases ====
+Propositional phrases (i.e. "On the water", "with a duck", etc.) can be appended to modify a noun. See the Prepositional Phrases section.
+==== Relative Clauses ====
+A relative clause is a short clause that describes the noun. In "The tree that burns", the relative clause is "that burns". A relative clause is like a mini-sentence embedded after the noun. In our example, you could visualize it as "The tree (it burns)". In English, we add "that" on the beginning and remove the pronoun that refers to the noun. The noun is called the 'head' and "that" is called the relativizer. The head noun might be the subject or the object of the clause. If I say "The tree that burns", the tree is the thing burning - it's the subject of the burning. However, I can say "The tree that I burn". In that case, the tree is the object, the thing being burned.
+In Brooding, a relative clause starts with the relativizer, followed by the verb, the subject then the object (if any). This seems different than the usual sentence order (SVO) but it adheres to the V2 nature of the language - the verb is always the second constituent (the first in a relative clause is the relativizer).
+There are two relativizers: ''ai'' and ''au''. Which you use depends on how the head fits into the relative clause. If the head noun is the subject of the relative clause, ''ai'' is used. If it is the object, then ''au'' is used.
+So let's take the above example. If I say "The tree that burns down", the head is "tree", and the relative clause is "that burns down", that you can look at as "The tree (it burns down)". In that clause, the tree is the subject (it is what is burning). So it's the subject of the relative clause. When you write the clause, you use the relativizer ai:
+''geeth ai aekhlaat''
+tree REL/SUBJ burns
+"tree that burns"
+(Note: there is no object listed after the verb because there is nothing the tree is doing the burning to)
+If I say "The tree that I burn", the head is the same (tree), but the tree is now the object, the thing being burned. In this case, the relativizer is ''au'' instead of ''ai'':
+''geeth au ootawnaekhlaat leed''
+tree object-relativizer cause-burn I
+"tree that I burn"
+(Note: There is a subject in the relative clause - ''leed'' ("I") - since "I" am doing the burning. It appears after the verb because the verb is always second. Also, the verb is slightly different. ''aekhlaat'' means something is burning. I am making it burn, so the verb is literally "to cause-to-burn." For more on that construction, see the section on
+Verbs).
+One thing to remember is that the relativizer is based off of where the head noun fits into the relative clause, NOT where it fits into the overall sentence. Look at the following sentence:
+''leed ahgehn igeeth ai aekhlaat''
+I see tree-OBJ REL/SUBJ burn
+"I see a tree that burns"
+The tree is an object of the sentence, but is the subject of the clause (it is what I see, but it is what is burning). So ''ai'' is the appropriate relativizer, not ''au''.
+==== Demonstratives ====
+Brooding uses four demonstratives:
+{|
+|-
+| ti || this || (right here, in my hand)
+|-
+| de || this, the || (here)
+|-
+| ga || that, the || (there)
+|-
+| klau || that || (distant)
+|}
 === Denominalization ===