User:Ceige/Something Germanic

Grammar

Nouns

Gender

There are 3 genders:

• Male:

Any noun that refers to a male gendered animal, or anything the speaker wishes to emphasis as masculine.

The default gender for participles, adjectives, etc.

And the following suffixes (tentative!):

• -er
• -dum

• Female

Any female gendered animal, anything the speaker wants to add female gender emphasis to, most suffixes (?). Concepts? See neuter?

• Neuter

Animals (in a collective or non-individualistic sense), vehicles (but personified vehicles are typically female), machines (see prev., female gender can act as a respectful familiar diminutive), diminutives suffixes, etc.

Number

Nouns form the plural with:

• -er if they end in a consonant, are unaffixed, and are male,
• -en if they end in a consonant or suffix, and are female,
• and -s if they end in a (phonemic) vowel.

Neuter nouns do not need to mark for plurality.

Or umlaut e.g. fisch but schäf/schäp. Maybe schäfe? Vs schap/schàf egc.

Phrasing

• Do you have a hammer?

S'da n hammer bei di(s)ch?

S'da n hammer av dein('s)?

Bei mi(s)ch('s/'es/_is) n buch.

The -ch here simply stands for a voiceless lenition-prone final velar rather than always /x ç/.