Wednesday, 24 September 2014

A short list of verb conjugation

Here is a small list of verb conjugations within Ozyan, with some notes on subject order.

A standard sentence in Ozyan follows a verb-object-subject structure. For those unfamiliar with sentence structure, more can be read here, and I have also included a shamelessly ripped image from Wikipedia. So a sentence would read, as depicted, "loves him she". The verb normally begins a sentence.

jalshemha asdjaa'i uki - "I ran with my brother"

Verbs in Ozyan follow simple transformations for tenses: past ("I worked"), present ("I am working") and future ("I will work"), as well as gendered suffixes. These are sentences where you are a speaker. When you are referring to another person as the subject, the rules change slightly. 

jal = leap, jump / shem = walk 
jalshem - to run

Past

jalshemha - he ran 
jalshemna - she ran 
jalshemka - they ran

Present

jalshemhi - he is running
jalshemni - she is running
jalshemki - they are running 

jalshemki asum uki - they are running with me 
                  ("asum" = group of people, plural)

Future

jalshemho - he runs 
jalshemno - she runs
jalshemko - they run 

jalshem uki - I run 

jalshemha bansha'por - "He ran in that direction" - (bansha'por is an indicator of direction - "ban" = hand "sha" = wave " 'por" =indicator of direction. Normally accompanied by, unsurprisingly, a wave of the hand in a direction)

Not terribly precise rules, but w/e. 

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