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duhunder-hophwnigopet - ''two hundred sixteenth''
duhunder-hophwnigopet - ''two hundred sixteenth''
==Telling Time==
Hours and minutes
Use the suffix -sci for hours, and -bun for minutes.
hansci - one o’clock
dusci - two o’clock
nehwnitasbun - 45 minutes
hansci nehwnitasbun eftermiddage - 1:45 in the afternoon
Days of the week
maansdag - Monday
brandsdag - Tuesday
vattensdag - Wednesday
trejsdag - Thursday
guldsdag - Friday
stjejrnasdag - Saturday
solsdag - Sunday
Months of the year
hanmaanad - January
dumaanad - February
semaanad - March
nemaanad - April
tasmaanad - May
yosmaanad - June
gopmaanad - July
dolmaanad - August
hopmaanad - September
jolmaanad - October
jorihanmaanad - November
joridumaanad - December
Use of dative case (DAT) as temporal
Use the dative case (DAT) for telling time, by adding the suffix -e to temporal words:
hanscie - at one o’clock
gulsdage - on Friday
semaanade - in March
noga solsdage hemwge ska gaajo - you should go home on sunday

Revision as of 13:03, 1 July 2014

Koredish is the odd child of Korean and Swedish, with some oddities thrown in...

Word Order

Subject, Object, Verb

Postpositional

Nouns before adjectives


Grammatical Cases

Nominative (NOM) - subject

Accusative (ACC) – direct object

Dative (DAT) – indirect object, telling time (temporal)

Vocative (VOC) – addressing, calling

Genitive (GEN) - possession

Instrumental (INS) – by, means, tool

Topical (TOP) – topic, emphasis

Comitative (COM) – with

Locative (LOC) – location of

Vicinitive (VIC) – nearby

Lative (LAT) – movement to

Ablative (ABL) – movement from

Postpositional (PST) – used with postpositions


hus - house (NOM)

huswl - house (ACC)

huse - house (DAT)

husya - house (VOC)

huswi - house’s (GEN)

huswro - house (INS)

huswga - house (TOP)

huswa - with house (COM)

huswso - at house (LOC)

husege - near house (VIC)

huswge - to house (LAT)

huseso - from house (ABL)

husi - house (PST)


Verbs

Infinitive


The infinitive ends in -da:


seda - to see

varda - to be

hada - to have

gojrda - to do

sajda - to say


The root of the verb is the verb minus the -da suffix:


se

var

ha

gojr

saj


Conjugation


Verbs are not conjugated for person, hence the verb ending is the same regardless of person:


Na sejo - I see

No sejo - you see

Kw sejo - he/she sees

Go sejo - it sees

Vi sejo - we see

Ni sejo - you see

De sejo - they see


Interrogative mood


Na sejka? - I see?

No sejka? - you see?

etc.


(work in progress)


Numbers

Cardinal Numbers

han - one

du - two

se - three

ne - four

tas - five

yos - six

gop - seven

dol - eight

hop - nine

jol - ten

jorihan - eleven

joridu - twelve

jorise - thirteen

… …

duhwn - twenty

duhwnihan - twenty-one

… …

sehwn - thirty

nehwn - forty

… …

hunder - hundred

hunder joriyos - one hundred sixteen

… …

duhunder - two hundred

duhunder hophwnigop - two hundred sixteen

… …

tusen - thousand

joltusen - ten thousand

hunder tusen - one hundred thousand

… …

miljon - million

biljon - billion


Ordinal numbers


Add -et to the cardinal number:


hanet - first

sehwnet - thirtieth

tusenet - thousandth


For compound numbers it is customary to hyphenate the whole number when used as an ordinal:


duhunder-hophwnigopet - two hundred sixteenth


Telling Time

Hours and minutes

Use the suffix -sci for hours, and -bun for minutes.

hansci - one o’clock

dusci - two o’clock

nehwnitasbun - 45 minutes

hansci nehwnitasbun eftermiddage - 1:45 in the afternoon

Days of the week

maansdag - Monday

brandsdag - Tuesday

vattensdag - Wednesday

trejsdag - Thursday

guldsdag - Friday

stjejrnasdag - Saturday

solsdag - Sunday

Months of the year

hanmaanad - January

dumaanad - February

semaanad - March

nemaanad - April

tasmaanad - May

yosmaanad - June

gopmaanad - July

dolmaanad - August

hopmaanad - September

jolmaanad - October

jorihanmaanad - November

joridumaanad - December

Use of dative case (DAT) as temporal

Use the dative case (DAT) for telling time, by adding the suffix -e to temporal words:

hanscie - at one o’clock

gulsdage - on Friday

semaanade - in March

noga solsdage hemwge ska gaajo - you should go home on sunday