View source for Seuna suffixes and some grammar


==Some grammar==

Predicates can not be adjectives. They must be nouns. Hence you can not say "He is good". But you must say "He is a good one".

The reason for this is because I want to be able to drop the copula in the present tense without creating any ambiguity. Let me explain.

"the big man's beer" is rendered '''beer man big''' in Seuna.
However this could be reanalysed '''[beer man] big''' which would be "the man's beer is big" if adjective predicates are allowed. This ambiguity is avoided when you must say "the man's beer is a big one".

==More old rubbish===

==What is called the passive voice== 

This is made by end.sticking fi to the verb.
 
'''bundorinfi dwolo''' = they say a house was built (immaterial whether still standing or not)  ???'''dwolo rin bundoi'''???

'''dwolo bundortanfi''' = they say the house has been built (it is still standing)  ???'''dwolo rin bundoi'''???

'''caito kludorusfi''' = (I guess) the book will be written  ???'''caito rus kludoi'''???

==The causative, the inchoative and the reciprocal==

'''timpaya''' = to make hit

'''solbaye''' = to make drink

'''timpala''' = to start to hit

'''solbale''' = to start to drink

'''timpawa''' = to fight

==Other==

You ought to hit him = you should hit him = '''timpohire na'''

You must hit him = '''timpuhire na'''

You can hit him = '''timpawire na'''

==Index==

{{Seuna index}}