- Geni (n) - Language, speech
- Häri (n) - A period of time close to about 32 minutes
- Ormma (v) - To change, become
- Ṡeluuku (num, adj) - Twenty
- four Si (pro) - 1sg
- Toh (prep) - temporal preposition
- Wasa (n) - Group, collection
- Yde (adj) - Bad
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- Tysren is VSO.
- Verbs conjugate for nonpast and past tense, and 3 persons. Verbs typically end in a geminate consonant and the vowel “A”. To get the conjugatable stem of a verb, ungeminate the consonant and remove the “A”, then apply the chosen endings. Here is how a regular nonpast verb conjugates:
- -is: 1nd person
- -ig: 2nd person
- -i: 3rd person
- Tysren does not have exhibit the plural, though some phrases and words are used to imply plurality.
- Nouns in Tysren have a system of noun class, with certain suffixes showing a noun’s class
- Class 1, human: -A
- Class 2, animate: -U
- Class 3, inanimate: -o
- Class 4, abstract/tools: -i, -e
- Prepositions and adjectives go AFTER the noun they’re applied to.
- Tysren nouns decline for 7 cases, these suffixes used for cases normally depending on the word’s class. I will give declensions only for the classes in the text that were declined.
Class 1:
- Ergative: -c
- Absolutive: ∅
- Possessed: -he (causes syncope)
- Dative: -ne (causes syncope)
- Ablative: -ni (no syncope)
- Instrumental: -Ac
- Additive: -is (no syncope)
Class 4:
- Ergative: -c
- Absolutive: ∅
- Possessed: -hi (syncope)
- Dative: -ni (syncope)
- Ablative: -ni (no syncope)
- Instrumental: -ic
- Additive: -is (normally separated by hyphen)
Pronouns tend to be more irregular, though there are some common themes, such as the dative ending being simply -n. The instrumental case also often acts as a prepositional. In phrases like “in X language”, one would say “X language.DAT”
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