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Adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or noun phrase. It may either precede or follow a noun. Due to the fact that Jembesa is a head-final language, adjectives precede nouns in the language. In some of the languages (like Latin, French, German etc.), adjectives alter their form to … Continue reading Part of Speech (Adjective)
Pronoun is a word which substitutes for a noun phrase. In Jembesa, there are seven kinds of pronouns: personal, possessive, reflexive, reciprocal, demonstrative, indefinite, interrogative. A pronoun can be marked with some features which a noun can take on: number, case, and enclitic; e.g. munnattu 'to both of us, too?' [1st person dual + illative case … Continue reading Part of Speech (Pronoun)
Enclitic An enclitic is added onto a word to fulfil some meanings. Jembesa has 7 enclitics: -lla, -llä, -t, -?et This enclitic simply means 'too'. -lla or -llä is used for nominative case; while -t is used for the cases ending with a vowel, and -?et is used for the cases ending with a consonant. (Question … Continue reading Enclitic
keresGood Evening Traditionally, we can classify words according to their functions in a sentence such as noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb etc. We call this classification 'part of speech', or 'word class'. In Jembesa, we can mention two great word classes: noun and verb. The former includes noun, determiner, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and … Continue reading Part of Speech (Noun)
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