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ORDER OF THE SENTENCE
The order of the sentence is
Verb-D.C.-S-I.C.-Adjnct.-O.S.P.-Conj.
For example:
fuu boj ja kidom wu nepom aj poj ke oru ("But the woman gives the plant to the man in the country")
The order of the copulative sentence is
O.S.P.-S-Adjnct-Conj.
For example:
erim nepom kaj (positive present)
erime nepom kaj (negative present)
erim'om nepom kaj (positive past)
erimem nepom kaj (negative past)
erimi nepom kaj (conditional)
erimti nepom kaj (dubitative)
erimda nepom kaj (interrogative)
nepokum badim kaj (possessive)
SYNTAGMES
NOUN SYNTAGME
When adjectives, participles and substantivated genitives are in attributive position, they are attached with a hyphen (except for substantivated genitives), without determination or the conjugational adjective ending, to the left of the core, (e.g. one-kum).[Core] (ku)
[[D.C.] Core] (one-ku)
[[I.C.] Core] (nepo aj ku)
[[D.C.] Core [I.C.]] (one-ku nepo aj)
POSTPOSITIONAL SYNTAGME
[Core] pst. (ku aj)
[[D.C.] Core] pst. (one-ku aj)
[[I.C.] Core] pst. (nepo aj ku aj)
[[I.C.] [D.C.] Core] pst. (nepo aj one-ku aj)
VERBAL AGREEMENT
The verb agrees with the subject in number and person as follows: it has one paradigm for the third person singular; another paradigm for the first, second, and third person plural; and another common paradigm for the first and second singular.
Some lexical meanings are usually presented in a pair of verbs, one of which agrees only with the first two paradigms and the other with the 1st and 2nd singular. In the first person singular, the pronoun can be elided.
verbal paradigm.pdfSUBORDINATION
Subordination is achieved with conjunctions, but completive sentences are introduced through the subordinate nominative (-ba) and accusative (-kom) postpositions. The first and second person singular and plural have their own subordinate pronouns.
Haja <naj-dum rwe-be-ba> am-be wu ("I said I love you")
Haja <dum fejm-kom rwe-be-ba> am-be wu ("I said I love him")
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