Sarkezhe Grammar

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Sarkezhe is a synthetic language.

Nouns

Nouns in Sarkezhe decline for case. The cases are standard (i.e. nominative), genitive, allative, ablative, and illative.

Noun class

Nouns are categorized into nine noun classes:

Class	Description
I	Cats
II	Diminutive animate
III	Augmentative animate
IV	Soft
V	Hard
VI	Liquid
VII	Container
VIII	Tool
IX	Abstract

Noun declension

Noun declension differs depending on if the noun root has front or back vowels, according to the vowel harmony rules of Sarkezhe.

Pronouns

Personal pronouns, like nouns, decline for case. There are first-person and second-person singular, as well as plural, pronouns. Each noun class has its own third-person pronoun.

Verbs

Verbs in Sarkezhe conjugate for telicity, polarity and voice. They agree with their subject and object, depending on the transitivity of the verb. Telicity is marked for positive polarity verbs. Telicity is marked differently depending on the transitivity of the verb. There is positive polarity, as well as three forms of negative polarity (negation): non-immediate negation, indifferent negation and refusal.