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
- Introduction to Seuna
- Seuna : Chapter 1
- Seuna word shape
- The script of Seuna
- Seuna sentence structure
- Seuna pronouns
- Seuna nouns
- Seuna verbs (1)
- Seuna adjectives
- Seuna demonstratives
- Seuna verbs (2)
- Asking a question in Seuna
- Seuna relative clauses
- Seuna verbs (3)
- Methods for deriving words in Seuna
- List of all Seuna derivational affixes
- Numbers in Seuna
- Naming people in Seuna
- The Seuna calendar
- Seuna units
