Sarkezhe Grammar

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Sarkezhe Language Navigation: Home, Phonology, Grammar, Vocabulary, Orthography

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.