Rob Haden wrote:
> I'm curious to see everyone's answers to the following questions:
>
> 1. Does your language(s) distinguish between active ("X breaks Y"), middle
> ("X breaks (apart)"), and passive ("X is broken (by Y)")?
Orêlynna distinguishes only between active and passive so far. Passive
is formed (:-) by prefixing þey- to the verb in the 3rd person
conjugation and putting the grammatical subject (I think that's what
it's called) in the accusative case:
þeytelyntet donueþy
þey-telyn-tet donueþ-y
PASS-build-3p.past city.ACC-the
> 2. If the answer to #1 was "yes," what method(s) does your language(s) use
> to make some/all of the above distinctions?
See above.
> 3. What method(s) does your language(s) use to distinguish between basic
> nouns and verbs of the same root (i.e. "a hit" vs. "he hits")?
Roots that become nouns end in one of 5 possible endings:
Human male: -do
Human female: -ka
Non-human living (flora & fauna): -te
Inanimate things: -eþ
Abstract: -na
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