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	Vahn	English
#6	Vahn by Lucy
	kahngay reun varchishuhm lhaiyw rarngah narwnnorngahrar chi poonginzoiym jehwan thorlorngolw rihnthngah varyanorwn chi rorn rihn tarlaiylaiyw rorn tortorwya reen rihn yasuhkw reengah narwnnorngahrarng rihn tarshartorw torl	He will feel no depression Man cannot cover the earth in a blanket of mist Only they can earn your trust (only they can make you trust them), will you let her break him and make him leave the blanket?

Lexicon

varchishuhm	great sadness, depression
lhaiyw	to not have
narwnnorngahrar	blanket, duvet
poonginzoiym	fog, mist
jehwan	Earth
lorngolw	Cover, Put Over
varyanornwn	Trust, Faith, Thoughts of Protection
laiylaiyw	To Transfer
torw	To Go
yasuhkw	To Break
shartorw	To Leave, Depart

Grammar

Structure

Sentences are mostly SOV, broadly they follow the order

TENSE LOCATION SUBJECT OBJECT VERB

Clauses terminate at a verb, or a ~

Pronouns

rarn	1s
rarwan	1pl
rorn	2s
rorwan	2pl
rihn	3s
rihwan	3pl
reun	3s.masc
reuwan	3pl.masc
reen	3s.fem
reewan	3pl.fem

Relational Conjugations

-w	default
-wl	question
-wya	causative ("clause_1 -wya clause_2" means "clause_1 causes/so clause_2")
-wlya	conditional ("clause_1 -wlya clause_2" means "if clause_1 then clause_2")
-wn	nominalizer

Moods

-laiy	want
-tor	can
-tar	must
-var	think (I think that x is the case)
-bar	see (I can see that x is the case)
-hor	pretend

Any of the above can be negated by putting a -h- after the first character. lhaiy, thor, thar, vhar, bhar and hhor.

Cases

-ngah

Inside, Instrument of, causer of, modal actor (one who wants/can/must/etc)

Tense

kahnngol	past
kahngor	again (habitual)
kahngay	future

Chi

chi marks that the second thing possess or acts upon the first thing. X chi Y can mean "the Y that does X, the X belonging to Y, or other simillar structures"