Orcish Grammar

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Orcish is an analytic language with some agglutinative features. The word order is subject-verb-object (SVO) and mostly head-initial. The language has prepositions, as opposed to postpositions.

Nouns

Nouns do not decline for number.

Possession in nouns is indicated through suffixes, for example -koh "my," -bhaz "our," and -huh/-h "his/her/its."

Adjectives

Adjectives precede the nouns they modify, such as in bhuur toz "human king".

Verbs

Verbs do not consistently agree with their subjects. For example ghanta can mean both "you asked" and "he asks". The third person can be marked with -uk, and the second person with -ah.

Voice

Verbs have active and passive forms. The passive is marked with -hu- (-huk in the third person).

Copula

Orcish features a null copula, such as in Goh Toz Llane "This is King Llane," literally "This King Llane."

Negation

Orcish features negative concord, which is marked with the particle ko which precedes the verb as well as a negative pronoun, such as in the example Gor ko tebuk kohát "War will solve nothing", literally "War will not solve nothing.