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Get to know some Litish basics!
Litish is a language where you have many choices: pronoun conjugation is optional, tense and aspect (+voice) inflection can be consolidated in a particle put before the verb, or added on as affixes, you can put numbers as separate words in front of plurals or you could add suffixes. Word order is generally subject-verb-object, though if grammatical cases are employed, it may be more free.
(the nominative case may be the case of nouns as the subject of the sentence, and is often the base form of the noun)
Pronouns stand in place of nouns! There are three persons, first, second and third. The first person plural has variants by clusivity, the second by plurality and the third by gender AND plurality. Here are the pronouns, in the nominative case- which, for the singular ones, may be the base forms of the pronouns.
First Person Narrative (Nominative)
I - Lënnen (Cl. Lit. Je, from French. Lënnen inspired by Quenya?)
I (formal) - Eoi (Md. Lit. Egoii, Cl Lit. Ego, from Latin)
We (including listener, possibly including more) - Oosab
You (excluding listener, including others) - Oolab
Second Person Narrative (Nominative)
You (singular) - Tuas (From French, Tu as; 'You have')
You (plural) - Tuase [≈pronounced twayse]
Third Person Narrative (Nominative)
He (masculine singular) - Fell (Possibly linked to 'person' and elle?)
They (masculine plural) - Felle
She (feminine singular) - Elle (from French)
They (feminine plural) - Ellen
It (neuter singular) - Italy (from It, possibly referencing Italia)
They (neuter plural) - Italye
They (generalised/unspecified plural) - Venim (possibly from accusative Vem, which may be from English them)
Verbs are kinda action/being words! There are stative (stating states) and dynamic (action) verbs. Under dynamic, there are also different levels of transitivity- in English, intransitive is when the action does not require a direct object (and often has a preposition before the next noun phrase), while transitive verbs generally connect a subject and a direct object. Monotransitive ones may just have a direct object, while ditransitive verbs may also have an indirect object. Verbs may decline for tense, aspect and modality, and for person (including number and gender?).
Here's the optional (if you want to leave the pronoun out, add the suffix. If you don't, you can still add it?) personal declension for the verb glo (to be):
glo - to be
I am - Lënnen/Eoi ve
We are - Oosab/Oolab vee
You are - Tuas veo
You (pl.) are - Tuase veoe
He is - Fell veiu
They (m.) are - Felle veiue
She is - Elle veia
They (f.) are - Ellen veiae
It is - Italy vei
They (n.) are - Italye veie
They are - Venim veie
If you want, you don't need all the suffixes. If you only wish to differentiate between They (f.) are and You (pl.) are, you could just add the first suffix- -i for third person and -o for second person. Technically, you could do the same for gender and number too.
Stuff like 'a' and 'an' (indefinite) or 'the' (definite).
a (indefinite singular)
a/an (n.) - unt
a/an (m.) - un (from French)
a/an (f.) - une (from French)
indefinite unspecified/plural
ø - de
some - des (from French)
definite
the (generalised singular) - lu
the (generalised plural) - ly
the (God) - Thou
[NB: there are many, many other words for 'the' (over twenty :O) in Litish, but you may use the generalised 'the' for everything except Jesus (God) - Thou and Zy in Zy Und ('The End') are the only The's without plural counterparts. Note that Thou might not be used for Greek mythological deities like Zeus- Thou may just be for Jesus, the one true God.]
eldib - eat
go - hœw
come - ven (of Italic/Romance origin; Latin venire/ French venir or their derivatives)
drink - daight
man - adam (Biblical story of Creation, Adam, the first human man God created on Earth)
woman - eve (Biblical story of Creation, Eve, the first human woman God created on Earth)
boy - adamame (derivative of adam, reference to edamame?)
girl - eve-eve (derivative of eve?)
bread - punz (related to French pain?)
water - hydro (c'mon)
milk - damezyihkaolish (name reference, to a certain teacher with the surname Kao?)
and - et
Why not try making a sentence?
I am a boy - Lënnen ve un adamame
I am Dylan - Lënnen ve Dylan.
:D Have fun!