I am changing some personal pronouns, mainly the third person forms. Previously the singular forms had the same forms as the definite suffixes for nouns. I want them to be distinct.
Here are the new third person pronouns listed by gender in the nominative case, with the singular on the left and the plural on the right. common: is, ji masculine: yos, joi feminine: yas, jai neuter: he, her* celestial: ho, hoi feminine: ha, hai *In some of the other cases (cases whose suffix is a single consonant), the plural form of he optionally uses the stem hi- . I also changed the first person exclusive plural to zä, and the "fourth person" pronoun to thus. In Shonkasika, the fourth person pronoun can be translated as "one, they, people, you" in a generic sense.
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*I'm in the process of updating my noun and adjective declensions. Basically, I'm changing how the plurals and definite form. I'm hiding my noun and adjective pages for the time being while working on updates.
Basically, nouns will take different suffixes for definiteness and number according to their gender. These will the new definite singular, indefinite plural, and definite plural endings respectively: common: -le, -be, -the masculine: -lo, -be, -tho feminine: -la, -be, -tha neuter: -ne, *-ér, -erde celestial: -no, *-ór, -ordo terrestrial: -na, *-ár, -arda *The neuter/celestial/terrestrial indefinite plural suffixes replace final -e/-o/-a and attracts stress to itself. It is not a typo that common/masculine/feminine nouns all have the same plural suffix. The inanimate genders more or less do as well, -(e)r. For illustration, here are some nouns from each gender, in the indefinite singular, definite singular, indefinite plural and definite plural of the nominate case: deer: jedhes, jedheles, jedhebe, jedhethe man: deros, derolos, derobe, derotho woman: lopnas, lopnalas, lopnabe, lopnatha finger: dore, dorene, dorér, dorerde apple: belo, belono, belór, belordo potato: rida, ridana, ridár, ridarda |
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