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If all nouns in the sentence are inanimate, then the verb must be inflected as having an unspecified subject. Inanimate nouns may use instrumental marker ''-re/-r-'', which is similar to prepositions "with" and "by" in English. Animate nouns can only use the commitative marker ''-va'', but its meaning is different.
*If all nouns in the sentence are inanimate, then the verb must be inflected as having an unspecified subject. Inanimate nouns may use '''instrumental''' marker ''-re/-r-'', which is similar to prepositions "with" and "by" in English. Animate nouns can only use the '''commitative''' marker ''-va'', but its meaning is different.
*'''Possessedness''' is marked by the suffix ''-(i)u'' on the possessed noun, unlike English, which marks the possessor instead: ''Ammi imiru'' "Ammi's flower". These suffixes are added after a number suffix. If a possessed noun is animate, a honorific suffix -ci(n)- is sometimes added, when a speaker wants to show respect to that noun (usually a person: ''emiciri'' "my mother"). The suffix can be used without the possessive marker, but it is uncommon. In Teivo hia and formerly in Teivo qii also an inalienable possessive marker ''-o'' had existed, but it became obsolete nowadays even in Teivo hia.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Possessive suffixes
|-
!
! Singular
! Dual
! Paucal</br>Plural
|-
! 1<sup>st</sup>
| -ri
| -ii
| -cii
|-
! 2<sup>nd</sup>
| -ru
| -ovi
| -rci
|-
! 3<sup>rd</sup> proximate
| -iu
| -viu
| -itu
|-
! 3<sup>rd</sup> obviate
| -u
| -vo
| -to
|-
|}


===Verbs===
===Verbs===
There are four main types of verbs: impersonal (no determinate subject), intransitive (one subject only), transitive (both subject and direct object), ditransitive (one subject and two objects). Not every verb can belong to all types, some (like ''unuara'' "to sleep") belong only to one type (in this case - intransitive).
All Teivo verbs are inflect according to the following structure:
{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center; white-space:nowrap;"
|-
! colspan="3" | Prefix
! colspan="7" | Stem
! colspan="4" | Suffixes
|-
| -3
| -2
| -1
| 0
| 1
| 2
| 3
| 4
| 5
| 6
| 7
| 8
| 9
| 10
|-
| <small>adverbial</small>
| <small>negation</small>
| <small>interrogative</small>
| <small>'''root'''</small>
| <small>valence</small>
| <small>applicative</small>
| <small>verb type<br>modifier</small>
| <small>subaspect</small>
| <small>aspect</small>
| <small>mood</small>
| <small>inverse<br>marker</small>
| <small>indirect<br>object</small>
| <small>direct object<br>subject</small>
| <small>impersonal</small>
|}
It may seem complicated, however no verbs actually fill all of the given templates. A single verb typically has three to five templates full simultaneously (at least root and any person marker template must be present in order to make a verb).
 
There are four main types of verbs: impersonal (no determinate subject), intransitive (one subject only), transitive (both subject and direct object), ditransitive (one subject and two objects). Not every verb can belong to all types, some (like ''unuara'' "to sleep") belong only to one type (in this case - intransitive, but technically it can be turned into transitive with a causative suffix: ''unutunara'' "to cause to sleep").
*'''Impersonal''' or [[w:Avalency|avalent]] verbs are used in sentences with no determinate subject or if both the agent and the patient are inanimate, so neither can be a subject of such a sentence. An impersonal marker ''-e'' is put after a stem to make a verb avalent.
:{|
|Oqaakaieci
|naare
|kervecie
|-
|O-qaa-u-k-ai-eci
|nac-r-e
|kerve-cie
|-
|already-cut-INTR-CPL-PERF-IMPRS.PL
|axe-INS-INAN.SG
|branch-INAN.PAU
|-
| colspan="2" |"The axe has cut off a few branches".
|
|
|
|-
| colspan="2" |"By means of an axe, a few branches have been cut off".
|
|
|
|}
*'''Intransitiive''' verbs have no direct object. Person suffixes are attached to the stem of these verbs. In order to turn a transitive verb into intransitive (or impersonal), a suffix ''-u'' is added next to the root, however some verbs do not take this suffix.
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Intransitive
|-
! style="text-align: center;" | ''unuara'' - to sleep
! style="text-align: center;" | Marking
! style="text-align: center;" | Example
|-
! 1<sup>st</sup> singular
| -i || ''unui''
|-
! 2<sup>nd</sup> singular
| -u || ''unuu''
|-"
! 3<sup>rd</sup> singular
| -a || ''unua''
|-
! 1<sup>st</sup> dual
| -iva || ''unuiva''
|-
! 2<sup>nd</sup> dual
| -ua || ''unuua''
|-"
! 3<sup>rd</sup> dual
| -evi || ''unuevi''
|-
! 1<sup>st</sup> plural
| -era || ''unuera''
|-
! 2<sup>nd</sup> plural
| -onna || ''unuonna''
|-"
! 3<sup>rd</sup> plural
| -eci || ''unueci''
|-
|}
*'''Transitive''' verbs accept one object. Most Teivo verbs are transitive by default, but a suffix ''-t'' is added to some intransitive verbs in order to make them transitive. The suffix probably comes from the causative suffix ''-tun''.
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Transitive
|-
! style="text-align: center;" | Object→<br>Subject↓
! style="text-align: center;" | 1<sup>st</sup> singular
! style="text-align: center;" | 2<sup>nd</sup> singular
! style="text-align: center;" | 3<sup>rd</sup> singular
! style="text-align: center;" | 1<sup>st</sup> dual
! style="text-align: center;" | 2<sup>nd</sup> dual
! style="text-align: center;" | 3<sup>rd</sup> dual
! style="text-align: center;" | 1<sup>st</sup> plural
! style="text-align: center;" | 2<sup>nd</sup> plural
! style="text-align: center;" | 3<sup>rd</sup> plural
|-
! 1<sup>st</sup> singular
| — ||-ne ||-qe || -vei ||-noi ||-oi ||-are ||-nne ||-ute
|-
! 2<sup>nd</sup> singular
| -ao ||— ||-qo ||-veo ||-noo ||-oo ||-aro ||-nno ||-uto
|-
! 3<sup>rd</sup> singular
| -aa ||-na ||-a ||-via ||-nua ||-ua ||-ara ||-nna ||-uta
|-
! 1<sup>st</sup> dual
| -rau ||-nau ||-qau ||— ||-nou ||-oau ||-arau ||-nnu ||-utau
|-
! 2<sup>nd</sup> dual
| -ava ||-rva ||-qa ||-vea ||— ||-oa ||-arva ||-unna ||-uca
|-
! 3<sup>rd</sup> dual
| -aai ||-nai ||-ai ||-veai ||-noai ||-oai ||-arai ||-nnai ||-utai
|-
! 1<sup>st</sup> plural
| -attu ||-nettu ||-ettu ||-vettu ||-nottu ||-ottu ||— ||-urtu ||-uttu
|-
! 2<sup>nd</sup> plural
| -ratu ||-nertu ||-rettu ||-rvetu ||-nortu ||-rattu ||-ruttu ||— ||-ortu
|-
! 3<sup>rd</sup> plural
| -kaci ||-necci ||-keci ||-vecci ||-nocci ||-koci ||-acci ||-nucci ||-kucci
|-
|}
*'''Ditransitive''' verbs take a subject and two objects. There are two subtypes of these verbs: direct (two direct objects) and indirect (one direct and one indirect object), almost all verbs belonging to the second subtype, while direct verbs are ''iviara'' "to make", ''eatumara'' "to turn into", ''rammanara'' "to name" and some resultative verbs. Since indirect object suffixes are attached close to a verb root, they often influence it by changing vowel length or eliding final consonants, even though most of such instances had been regularized by now.
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Indirect Object
|-
! style="text-align: center;" | ''taara'' - to give
! style="text-align: center;" | Marking
! style="text-align: center;" | Example
|-
! 1<sup>st</sup> singular
| -ri- || ''taari-''
|-
! 2<sup>nd</sup> singular
| -tu- || ''taatu-''
|-"
! 3<sup>rd</sup> singular<br>proximate
| -o- || ''tao-''
|-
! 3<sup>rd</sup> singular<br>obviate
| -e- || ''tae-''
|-
! 1<sup>st</sup> dual
| -ro- || ''taaro-''
|-
! 2<sup>nd</sup> dual<br>proximate
| -tuo- || ''tatuo-''
|-"
! 3<sup>rd</sup> dual<br>obviate
| -vo- || ''taavo-''
|-
! 3<sup>rd</sup> dual
| -ei- || ''taei-''
|-
! 1<sup>st</sup> plural
| -ret- || ''taret''
|-
! 2<sup>nd</sup> plural
| -tot- || ''tatot-''
|-"
! 3<sup>rd</sup> plural<br>proximate
| -tto- || ''taatto-''
|-
! 3<sup>rd</sup> plural<br>obviate
| -tte- || ''taatte-''
|-
|}
Technically, tritransitive verbs exist, but they are rare and are formed differently, typically either using benefactive or applicative voice:
:{|
|Kirvapoteetoqe
|rekiru
|-
|Kirva-po-tee-t-o-qe
|rekiru-Ø
|-
|write-PFV-3S.BEN-TR-3S.IO-3S.DO.1S.S
|letter-INAN.SG
|-
| colspan="2" |"I wrote him/her a letter for you".
|-
|}


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