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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/.