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| Sevela | English | |
Maǧenami selitzami amitzina, junyeryu voldeselyu azimé. | With Mother Nature delighting in these maidens, she is having her tenth birthday. Mother Nature is able to dye a white flower from a thing and a red flower from a thing, thus in dyeing in such a way she dyes the queen for the one having been born before them, and she is free to decide in what color she would dye. | |
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Ordinals are formed by adding -yeru, which makes it declinable in the -u paradigm. |
Basic Grammar:Sevelian follows a fairly strict SOV word order, though it can be free because of the inflection. There is a lot of agglutinating, compound words are extremely common and can become quite long. Compounds generally take the form of (initial derivational morpheme)+(root_x)+(root_y)+main root+(progressive infix/subjunctive infix for verbs)+noun case/verb ending+(definite marker for noun). Ex.
Statements such as "with this being the case" are formed with instrumentals, with subject.INST and participle.INST. The noun declensions (incomplete but enough)-a declension nouns (generally feminine)
-u declension nouns (neuter)
-e declension nouns (generally masculine)
-i declension nouns (feminine)
Note: definiteness is marked by -s after case markings, in possessive singulars it assimilates to -š There are a huge number of verb forms but you really only need a few.
Sevelian makes extensive use of participles/gerunds, which are fully declinable. Active:
Passive:
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