Azkali grammar: Difference between revisions
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==== Determiners ==== | ==== Determiners ==== | ||
Most determiners appear to have evolved from remnants of older Azkali pronouns; specifically, it appears that they evolved from old gendered paucal and plural third person pronouns (in the ergative and possessive cases). They have in modern times lost their meaning as pronouns and instead have evolved into determiners. | Most determiners appear to have evolved from remnants of older Azkali pronouns; specifically, it appears that they evolved from old gendered paucal and plural third person pronouns (in the ergative and possessive cases). This is the reason why determiners are considered a subset of pronouns. They have in modern times lost their meaning as pronouns and instead have evolved into determiners. | ||
===== Demonstrative determiners ===== | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|+Azkali demonstrative determiners | |||
!Singular | |||
!Paucal | |||
!Plural | |||
|- | |||
|tzuai | |||
|tzut | |||
|tzeal | |||
|- | |||
! colspan="3" |<small>(Suffix forms)</small> | |||
|- | |||
!Singular | |||
!Paucal | |||
!Plural | |||
|- | |||
| -(a)zuai | |||
| -(a)zut | |||
| -(a)zeal | |||
|} | |||
The demonstrative determiners can mean both ''this'' or ''that'', ''these few, those few'', ''these'', or ''those''. They are placed before the noun they modify, but they have special forms (the suffix forms) if more precision is needed. | |||
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=== Adjectives === | |||
Adjectives in Azkali are work quite simply, and act like nouns in most ways. Adjectives are modified for the plurality of the noun which they modify, based on these rules: | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|+ | |||
! | |||
!Singular | |||
!Paucal | |||
!Plural | |||
|- | |||
!Singular vowel | |||
! rowspan="2" |∅ | |||
| -[e]tze | |||
| -[e]s | |||
|- | |||
!Multiple vowels | |||
| -[ai]tzi | |||
| -[ai]s | |||
|} | |||
The [e]'s are bracketed instead of parenthesized to note that they change the final vowel, if there is one, of the adjective. For example, if an adjective is modifying a paucal noun, and said adjective ends in one vowel, that vowel is changed to /e/. If the adjective ends in multiple vowels, however, those vowels are changed to /ai/. These two rules are demonstrated in the following sentences: | |||
* Tzo huka gatingatz am'''etze''' (They (paucal) have a large ball) | |||
* Thou hezi gatingerek ames (They (plural) have a large ball) | |||
* Tzo huka hetianetz r'''ais''' (They (paucal) have a large box) | |||
* Thou hezi hetianerek r'''ais''' (They (plural) have a large box) | |||