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=== Adjectives === | === Adjectives === | ||
The adjectives give qualities or defects to the subject (an animal, a person or an object). It deflects in number, degree and politness. There are three types of adjectives in Popoma: | |||
==== Qualifying Adjectives ==== | |||
The only subclass of adjectives that varies on degree and politness, they can appear before or after the noun. This is also the only subclass that antonym-synonym relations. Some examples: | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! Adjective | |||
! IPA | |||
|- | |||
| q̇orra <small>''"fat"''</small> | |||
| /{{IPA|go.ʁa}}/ | |||
|- | |||
| tolici <small>''"sweet"''</small> | |||
| /{{IPA|to.li.tʃi}}/ | |||
|- | |||
| kalhai <small>''"cute"''</small> | |||
| /{{IPA|ka.ʎai}}/ | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
==== Numeral Adjectives ==== | |||
Gives the numeral part of a subject. It’s the numeral quantifier + -shia suffix | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! Digit !! Cardinal !! Adjective | |||
|- | |||
! 1 | |||
| unho || unhoshia | |||
|- | |||
!2 | |||
| duo || duoshia | |||
|- | |||
! 3 | |||
| tri || trishia | |||
|- | |||
! 4 | |||
| qatoro || qatoroshia | |||
|- | |||
! 5 | |||
| k̇inoh || k̇inoshia | |||
|- | |||
! 6 | |||
| siza || sizashia | |||
|- | |||
! 7 | |||
| sita || sitashia | |||
|- | |||
! 8 | |||
| ohita || ohitashia | |||
|- | |||
! 9 | |||
| nu̇pho || nu̇phoshia | |||
|- | |||
! 10 | |||
| daż || dażishia | |||
|} | |||
==== Relative Adjectives ==== | |||
Gives the origin, property, goal relations of a subject. There’s no a specific rule for change the subject into an adjective. They appear after the noun. | |||
=== Pronouns & Determinants === | === Pronouns & Determinants === | ||
==== Personal Pronouns ==== | ==== Personal Pronouns ==== | ||
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| sonhani <small>''"much"''</small> || sonhanis <small>''"many"''</small> | | sonhani <small>''"much"''</small> || sonhanis <small>''"many"''</small> | ||
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| ''(doesn't exist)'' || | | ''(doesn't exist)'' || paruci <small>''"various"''</small> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| kanari <small>''"quite/plenty"''</small> || kanaris <small>''"quite/plenty"''</small> | | kanari <small>''"quite/plenty"''</small> || kanaris <small>''"quite/plenty"''</small> | ||
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=== Prepositions === | === Prepositions === | ||
Prepositions are one of the easiest things that the language offer, location of something is normally given by the demonstrative (pronoun or determinant). Like the mentioned class of words, prepositions inflect in distance, number and formality. | |||
Propositions also follow a different way of creation from other words. | |||
There are the "prepositional prefixes" those are the beginning of each preposition. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! Root Words !! Meaning | |||
|- | |||
| zo || area/place | |||
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| ha || altitude | |||
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| luro || related to a place | |||
|- | |||
| oi || abstract prepositions | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! Prefixes !! Meaning | |||
|- | |||
| ma- || close/near</br>under</br>low | |||
|- | |||
| na- || far</br>high | |||
|- | |||
| a- || in</br>to | |||
|- | |||
| i- || out</br>without | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
=== Conjunctions === | === Conjunctions === | ||