Common Trade Language
Grammar


Suffixes

-o female species
Example:
manhumn
womanhumno
dogbrah
bitchbraho
guestgozt
female guestgozto

-i small species
Example:
manhumn
boyhumni
girlhumnoi

-s : Forming the plural
Plural is always s after a word. Only if s is already the last sound, the plural is formed by the sj sound.

-e : past time
-t : single
Verbs are always regular:
  • the single form is formed by putting a t behind the verb
  • the past is formed by putting an e behind the verb
  • notice that by putting -e behind a word a noun can also be in past time (humnie: the child that was) and by putting a -t behind a plural noun as "mürq" a single form can be made

Example:
I amjah etI haveat
I wasjah eteI hadate
we arejahs ewe havea
we werejahs eewe hadae

Making verbs from nouns

To make a verb out of a noun is rather simple. It is done by putting one of the common verbs behind the noun.

Example
to seeviztu(sight+to do)
to workabta(work+to have)
to be at workabte(work+to do)
to speakklahsni(words+to make)

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