Morphology

Roots consist of one or two syllables (except for proper names borrowed from other languages which may be longer to make them more recognizable) and never appear in their bare form, always taking a suffix.

The root pjata, which relates to a place or location serves as a base for the examples below.

Nouns
Nouns take a -na suffix for the singular and -ne for the plural.

Nouns inflect for number, but do not have a gender and do not inflect for cases.

E.g. pjatana - place, location.

Verbs
Verbs are formed with the suffix -ma, which is both the infinitive and present tense suffix.

E.g. pjatana - to place, locate, put

For tense, verbs inflect. For more information on tenses, see the page for verbs. Conditional and imperative forms are formed using a prefix, _ and _ respectively.

Past particible is formed by adding the adjective suffix -no to the infinitive of the verb.

E.g. pjatamano – located, placed, put.

Passive voice is formed with the inflected form of the verb to be – vivema and a past participle.

E.g. homa pjatamano – is located

Adjectives and adverbs:
Both adjectives and adverbs take the suffix -no. Adjectives always stand before nouns, adverbs always before verbs.

Adjectives are graded with pem-, im-, him-, gam- which mean to a small, medium, large or great extent. Peno, ino, hino, gano are adjectives in their own right mean small, medium, big and great/huge. As adverbs, those words mean to a small, medium, large and great extent.