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#1Vharena by Seki
VharenaEnglish

kai’e einəm hasilar sho raatən eiv, ghre pelo valar gegei kyotəd.
poomam yeene toi lə kaadem yeene voi hyelarin zheedh kai’e einəm pelo,
thu kihyelarəd heiv ta ghre hyelo ekghlarəm thaanəi, kisootlarenəd ghərs maar,
lə pelo wook hooməd sho, neiv leeməd ta hyelo ghre.

Now she was only fourteen years of age,
This maiden in whom Nature took delight;
For just as she can paint a lily white
And red a rose, so in each colored feature
Had Nature come to paint this noble creature
Before her birth. And as she painted, she
Was free in what she thought each tint should be.

AFFIXES

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

PRONOUNS

  • +Each pronoun has one nominative both singular and plural, and all other declensions have individual singular/plural pairs.
    • –1p (first person)
      • aan – nominative
      • anəm/einəm – accusative (singular/plural)
      • aad/eid – dative (s./p.)
      • aanz/eiz – genetive
      • ai/eye – ablative (direction towards something)
    • –3p f. (feminine)
      • ghre – nom.
      • ghrou/ghero – acc.
      • ghod/gherd – dat.
      • ghərs/gheros – gen.
      • ghrum/ghim – abl.

DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS

  • eiv – this
  • heiv – such (things)
  • neiv – which (complex question marker)
  • roov – all (things)
  • shara – any (thing)
  • theiv – no (thing)
  • yeiv – that (thing near neither speaker nor listner)
  • zheiv – that (thing near listener)

ADJECTIVES

  • -∅ – standalone
  • -i – before nouns
  • -in – ″ adjectives (thereby making it an ‘adverb’ of sorts)
  • -ye – ″ verbs
  • -yen – ″ participals

NUMBERS

  • thaa – nought
  • zhii – one
  • gei – two
  • bya – three
  • nu – four
  • roo – five
  • (Thus, base six)
  • ge-nu – four-two (numbers are said in ascending order: two and four sixes, in a way; due to the less numbers, this is literally twenty six (in base 10))
  • tha-zhi-zhii – nought-one-one (forty-two)

～WORDS

  • hasiel – to be happy
  • hoom – decision
  • hyeel – to dye
  • kaade – a breed of red flower
  • kai’e einəm – Mother Nature
  • kai – parent
  • kyotə – time/occasion
  • leem – colour
  • lə – and
  • maar – postposition for ‘before’
  • pooma – a breed of white flower
  • raatə – a master or maiden
  • sho – postposition for ‘in’ (in which)
  • sootal – to bear (childbirth)
  • ta – postposition for ‘in’ (in a physical place)
  • thaanə – noble
  • thu – so; (because of the previous fact, such is possible)
  • to – white (adj.)
  • vaal – to age a year (to have a birthday)
  • vo – red (adj.)
  • wook – free
  • yeen – a thing
  • zheedh – able

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

ghol – (there) to be

SNG.PLR.
1ghaighe
2ghoghyol
M.ghanghain
F.ghalghon
N.gholghoe

pel – to be

SNG.PLR.
1peipie
2pi’epi’el
M.piinpian
F.pelopeen
N.pelpee

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/adjective (in most cases). 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.