Triparic Grammar

This is all a draft.

In March 2016 we're cleaning up the language yet again. This time for sure. Presto!

Nouns

Gender

Nouns have no grammatical gender.

Plural

Nouns form their plurals in -s (-es if the singular ends in s, z, x, or sz):

menszes "men" mädins "young women"

Articles and Genitive

We're not sure. Currently der (sing) and les (plur), but I prefer they not look like they came from two different languages. Carrie suggested del/des; Shawn thinks maybe der/des but del is also kinda cool.

Of course, "of" is a problem. If we do Germanic articles, then the genitive needs to be -s, perhaps with an apostrophe, like English. If we do Romance (l-) articles, then d- l- phrases and even contractions like French/Spanish/Italian are options.

Adjectives

Adjectives usually precede the nouns they modify, but are rarely placed afterwards, for effect:

gute morgen "good morning"
alta rol "high office"
but tempos conects "contiguous times"

Most adjectives form their comparatives and superlatives with the adverbs ply "more" and plä "most":

ply alta "higher" plä lange "longest"

Adjectives agree with their nouns in number:

tempos conects "contiguous times" duväds miăs "black cats"

Note that some adjectives are plural only:

alle mensches "all men"

Some adjectives have irregular comparative and superlative forms:

gute, besser, ...

... but should they??

Pronouns

		Nominative	Objective	Possessive
1. Sing.
2. Sing.
3. Sing.	Masc.
	Fem.
	Neut.
1. Plur.
2. Plur.
3. Plur.