Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

first verbs, and already irregular!

From:Wade, Guy <guy.wade@...>
Date:Thursday, May 31, 2001, 17:39
Congratulate me, for I have ventured into verbs!  Once I got going, it got
easier.  Canotaea uses a verb structure similar to Spanish, so:

-nd = infinitive stem

-me = 1st pers. sing. pres.
-te = 2nd pers. sing pres.
-se = 3rd pers. sing. pres.
-mese = 1st pers. plural pres.
-tese = 2nd pers. plural pres.
-these = 3rd pers. plural pres.

(A little primitive, I know.)  Canotaea only has 2 verbs at present: ond (to
be) and iwynd (to love).  It turns out that iwynd loses the y (pronounced
/I/) when conjugated: aet iweme (I love you).  That makes it an irregular
verb, right?

Very exited by all this, must keep going.

Guy