#Conlangity Day 16

How does your conlang do things like infinitives, participles & gerunds?

In other words, what happens when verbs are treated like nouns, adjectives or adverbs?

Are there different endings, forms or auxiliary words? If you want, try translating some of the examples in the cards!

I'm working on it now via #Conlangity, and I think I have been doing DECENTLY well, but it's absolutely the hardest thing ever.

At least for me.

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#TheDragonblood: Verbs are conjugated for person and number of the subject, two aspects (simple and progressive) and three moods (indicative, subjunctive and imperative) via inflectional endings, and five tenses (past, present, future, timeless and unmarked) with prefixes.

#Conlangity 15. Kraslan has five tenses: present, past, distant past, future, and distant future.

The present tense uses the root form of the verb. We’ve recently seen the example, “Vasainy hoɱa cin” (“Dances she park in”), with “vasa” meaning “to dance.” It doesn’t change 🧵

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I’ve come down with a cold, it’s not pleasant. I’m working on little sleep and through a headache, so I conjugated only one verb, eppu ‘to be’ in the present, present perfect, past (imperfective), future, and the present conditional.

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I think, for now, I am going to keep this simple and not make up any words, and simply speak in strict terms of general mindset.

Imperative, Indicative, and Subjunctive Moods do exist in the Kirrhin language, and words do change 🧵

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I missed yesterdays I may not catch up for awhile. I hope I’m staying mostly on topic, but the only way I could get my brain working was to take the words I have, & start making sentences.
I worry I’m making things unrealistically simple, by using more words instead of modifying, -

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Continuing the topic of verbs, what kinds of modifications or inflections do your verbs undergo in this conlang?

Do they change based on the subject? Are there verb tenses, and if so how many? Are there different moods?

What do these changes look like in practice? More in 🧵👇️

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🤫 I have sprinkled a couple verbs throughout the days so far, but I will add "cry" upon request of Emily, which is siril (I am not prepared to go think "to cry, etc." 😂 I WILL cry).

What I have found to be the role of linking verbs appears to be cases/suffixes/postpositions.

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I scramble to turn in my homework late by showing the professor pictures of my cat (tbh this worked once in college).

Mu = this
Gen = that
Yalla = that (over there, far)
Here = bana
There = kono (hilarious issue I see occuring with a Siefan speaker conversing with a Seigo speaker)

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#TheDragonblood: Nemorian linking verbs include esti (to be) and vuieti (to become), giving islí and vuyiti in Common Draconoidic, respectively.

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#Conlangity 14. Many Kraslan verbs end with -a, particularly -ta and -la. However, those are definitely not the only endings, and we’ve seen a prominent one that breaks away from this pattern: vy (“to be”).

As we’ve talked about before, the suffix -teó [t̪ø] is attached to 🧵

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The Verbs!
Welcome to another morning of my trying to come up with something internally consistent.
The good thing is, I have a few in their infinitives

Onward!

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Really attempting to murder me with this prompt, I swear. 😅

Another list of things I don't have, so this will be made up from whole cloth right here, just for you. 🩷💜🖤💙🩵💚

(Seriously, thank you for doing this. I'm bad at this.)

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Doing my post tonight bc I don't when I'll have time tomorrow!

Verbs in Na'aqal are fun because I'd say about 80% of verbs are also nouns, & vice versa.

So for example, if you wanted to say someone nervously avoided something, maybe you might say "She moused out of that party" 😂

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VEEERRRRBS!

Today is one of THE most important topics. Nouns & verbs are the 2 essential ingredients in any language! We have covered nouns, so it's time for verbs.

Give us some examples of verbs in your conlang. Can any nouns also be verbs? Do you have linking & auxiliary verbs?🧵

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#TheDragonblood: Nemorian 'here', 'there' and 'where' are kor, tor and por, giving Common Draconoidic łúr, lúr and pur, respectively. Gotta distinguish those L sounds!

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Gonna keep short & basic as I can today.

Hin - near, or here
Vu - far (also the same word as long, but form will change depending on the sentence. Not have that figured out yet.)
Viva – in (though depending on the kind of in you might use hin)
Rora - up, or above
Lutha - below

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Alright, in Na'aqal we have 3 basic location words:

Suut: "this, here" (close to the speaker)
Hoth: "that, there" (away but still nearby)
Huuda: "that, over there" (far away)

Another of my favorites is "Aanji" (between), which has a few variations, such as "Aanjinet"...

I missed #Conlangity Day 12 and it's quite simple

Adjectives en on -is but can get the same suffix after that as the noun, and are usually used after the noun:

malil mokalis (beautiful apple)
himuki mokalisuki chamemo (I love the beautiful person)
nawa ribilis esmo (I am a free sentient being)