Languary Day 19: playing with sentences
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aldersprigI continue to pull sentences from here: https://web.archive.org/web/20130307020009/http://fiziwig.com/conlang/syntax_tests.html
It's raining.
(is raining it)
The rain came down.
(came down raining)
The kitten is playing in the rain.
(playing in rain kitten)
The rain has stopped.
(stopped rain). (these 3 later)
fetha, verb, to rain
-am, turning a verb into a noun
fetham, noun, rain
THIS is the interesting part, because both the English and the French for "it rains" use a general pronoun. Il pleut, It/he present-tense-rain
Spanish skips the pronoun, as they often do:
está lloviendo Formal second-person singular to be, present-tense-rain
BUT I think there should be a word indicating the environment is doing something. SO.
fut, here-now place ("it")
Edited to add: Syntactic Expletive and Impersonal verbs seem to cover this phenomenon.
Present tense third person singular is -art
Present tense, surrounding:
-artfea
It's raining, Fethartfea fut.
It's raining.
(is raining it)
The rain came down.
(came down raining)
The kitten is playing in the rain.
(playing in rain kitten)
The rain has stopped.
(stopped rain). (these 3 later)
fetha, verb, to rain
-am, turning a verb into a noun
fetham, noun, rain
THIS is the interesting part, because both the English and the French for "it rains" use a general pronoun. Il pleut, It/he present-tense-rain
Spanish skips the pronoun, as they often do:
está lloviendo Formal second-person singular to be, present-tense-rain
BUT I think there should be a word indicating the environment is doing something. SO.
fut, here-now place ("it")
Edited to add: Syntactic Expletive and Impersonal verbs seem to cover this phenomenon.
Present tense third person singular is -art
Present tense, surrounding:
-artfea
It's raining, Fethartfea fut.
