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#11Vharena by Seki
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kighralarəd faanz sa, heidhəd thaanəi ta irole fii khorəm. nye ba’eil zaidəm ghir irlareni? kilorlarenəd irlarəs faanz sa, lorou thaanəye zaidəm irlari. ruita myai’e faaghəm, liee kinoovlarəm faanz kinalarəd heidhəs khars ta.

In your strength, by righteous spears you all fight them. Do you all intend for them to be fought? In the beginning of your fighting, you justly begin to fight. They learn from you, by seeing you die from the throwing of their spears.

AFFIXES

  • Prefixes
    • ki- – ‘the’/nominaliser of participles (‘the tired wolf’, kikyazə[the-wolf] shoodi[tired]; ‘death’, kinoovlar[the-dying])
  • Suffixes
    • -lar – -ing (participle; denotes a verb as an adjective, nooval[to die] > noovlar[dying]; remove verb stem, add -lar)
    • -en – passiviser (eedal[to give] > eedalen[to be given])

PRONOUNS

+Each pronoun has one nominative both singular and plural, and all other declensions have individual singular/plural pairs.

  • –2p (2nd person)
    • fii – nominative
    • finəm/fanəm (singular/plural) – accusative
    • fiiz/faanz – genitive
    • fiighem/faaghem – ‘receptive’ (from said source or place)
  • –3p n. (neuter)
    • ghir – no.
    • ghirəm/khorəm (singular/plural) – ac.
    • ghirs/khars – ge.
    • ghem/khighem – re.

～WORDS

  • ba’el – ~to intend for (-el verb)
  • ghraal – to be strong (-al stem verb)
  • heidh – spear (n.)
  • irol – to fight (-ol verb)
  • liel – to see (-el verb)
  • lorol – to begin (-ol verb)
  • myaal – to learn (-al verb)
  • na’el – to throw (-el verb)
  • nooval – to die (-al verb)
  • nye – question particle
  • ruita – x, ruita y; ruita y, x[because of x, y] (preposition)
  • sa – postposition, ‘in’
  • ta – postposition, ‘by means of’
  • thaanə – just/good/moral (adj.)
  • zaid [...] – ~that [...] happened (zaidəm fii woze, that you took care) (n.)

VERB CONJUGATION

-al verbs

SNG.PLR.
1-i-ie
2-ho-khe
Masc.3-nya-ni’e
Fem.3-lo-no
Neu.3-al-i’e

-ol verbs

SNG.PLR.
1-i-ie
2-ou-ole
M.-ani-ane
F.-alo-no
N.-ol-oe

-el verbs

SNG.PLR.
1-i-ie
2-e-eil
Mas.-ne-ane
Fem.-lo-n
Neu.-el-ee

NOUN DECLENSION

NEU.MAS.FEM.
NOM.±+(ə)n+e
ACC.+(ə)m+(i)i+ov
DAT.+(ə)d+(e)id+(a)ad
GEN.+(ə)s+kə+os
DIR.+(i)e+(i)a+ium
REC.+ghem+gh(a)+ghou

WORD ORDER

Sentence structure generally loose. Postpositive genitive. Nomitive may be ommited after tense and subject are introduced. Tense is decided by the subject either following (present+future) or preceding (past) the verb; no other changes need be made for difference in tense.