Vōv Grammar

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Vōv is an agglutinative language. The language is mostly head-initial. Adjectives and determiners follow the nouns they modify.

Nouns

Nouns decline for case and number. The cases include nominative (unmarked), accusative (marked with s-, from a root meaning "touch"), dative (n-/m-, "give"), and genitive (gi-, "come"). Plural number can be marked by reduplication, for example nah "way, path" ́~ nanah "ways, paths".

Possession

Possession in nouns is marked by possessive suffixes:

	First Person	Second Person	Third Person
Singular	-um	-vā
Plural	-loi

Pronouns

Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns decline for case and number. The personal pronouns of Vōv are shown in the following table:

	Singular			Plural
	1st Person	2nd Person	3rd Person	1st Person	2nd Person	3rd Person
Nominative	hum	vā		lō
Accusative		svā		slō
Dative	nhum	mvā
Genitive

Interrogative pronouns

The interrogative pronoun sik can be translated as both "what" and "who." It can also be used as a determiner in constructions like ginah sik "how," literally "of what way." '

Determiners

Vōv has demonstratives, for example the proximal demonstrative mem "this."

Verbs

Verbs in Vōv agree with their subjects in person and number. This is marked by suffixes:

	First Person	Second Person	Third Person
Singular	-(u)m	-v(ā)
Plural	-l(ō)

Verbs are also marked for tense. The tenses include present (unmarked), past (marked with -aur, from a root meaning "die") and future (-ik/-īk, "straight"

Negation

Negation is marked with the negative verb ull-, which takes the agreement in person and number, with the verb being negated following it uninflected.