Grammar
The articles are invariable:
- lo (the) : lo frato, lo soro, lo arbro --> l'arbro
- un (a/an) : un arbro
Adjectives end in a and are invariable:
- un bona soro, un bona frato, lo bona fratos (pas de s à lo, ni à bona)
Adverbs end in e and are invariable:
- bon --> bone
Singular nouns end in o, which can be dropped. Plural nouns end in os.
- arbr(o), frat(o), sor(o), arbros
Pronouns (subject, object, possessive)
| Translation | Subject | Object | Possessive |
|---|---|---|---|
| I | mi | me | ma |
| you | tu | te | ta |
| he | il | le | la |
| she | el | le | la |
| (reflexive) | so | se | sa |
| we | nos | ne | na |
| you | vu | ve | va |
| they (m.) | zi | ze | za |
| they (f.) | zel | ze/zey | za |
- Mi vidar te = I see you
- Tu vidar me = You see me
Verbs:
Present : ar --> mi vidar (I see) Past : ir --> mi vidir (I saw/have seen) Future : or --> mi vidor (I will see) Conditional : ur --> mi vidur (I would see) Imperative/infinitive : i --> vidi! (See!) Past participle : at --> vidat (adjective : vidata) (Seen) Present participle : ande --> vidante (adjective : vidanta) (Seeing) Future participle : inde --> vidinde (adjective : vidinda) (Will be seen)Read more about this topic: Neo (constructed Language)
Famous quotes containing the word grammar:
“All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, treble or centuple use and meaning.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.”
—Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886)