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".

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

1. Introduction to Seuna
2. Seuna : Chapter 1
3. Seuna word shape
4. The script of Seuna
5. Seuna sentence structure
6. Seuna pronouns
7. Seuna nouns
8. Seuna verbs (1)
9. Seuna adjectives
10. Seuna demonstratives
11. Seuna verbs (2)
12. Asking a question in Seuna
13. Seuna relative clauses
14. Seuna verbs (3)
15. Methods for deriving words in Seuna
16. List of all Seuna derivational affixes
17. Numbers in Seuna
18. Naming people in Seuna
19. The Seuna calendar
20. Seuna units