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Interrogative adjective modifies a noun or noun phrase in order to ask for information specifying something, or quantity. Interrogative Adjectives ko ko is used to ask for information specifying one or more people or things from a definite set; furthermore, it is equal to English determiners 'what' and 'which'. ko-soran ebaiver tugan;'Which skirt do they … Continue reading Interrogative Adjectives
In Jembesa, demonstrative determiners are same as demonstrative pronouns. Demonstrative pronouns function as a noun or noun phrase; on the other hand, demonstrative determiners function as an adjective. Despite thier functions, they are not classified as adjectives due to the fact that they don't end with adjectival suffix -o or -ö. They are classified as … Continue reading Demonstrative Determiners
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)
Possessive pronouns demonstrate ownership, and they are replaced by previously mentioned nouns in order to avoid repetition. To get possessive forms of personal pronouns, definite article (i/j') is added before a personal pronoun. Possessive Pronouns in Jembesa i ma: mine pabieliasta ongemal-inel-tonuella, i ma ollet kutta sarmen.'Compared with some one my friends' childhoods, mine was … Continue reading Possessive Pronouns
In Jembesa, possessivity is divided into two categories: possessive suffixes and possessive pronouns. Possessive Suffixes Possessive suffixes are added onto the words in noun class, and they turn into the forms in brakets under the process of affixation. Possessive Suffixes in Jembesa Ist Person Singular [-m(a/ä-)]:-m suffix is added onto the word in nominative form, … Continue reading Possessivity
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)
Allative Case (-ssa, -ssä) A word in allative case takes -ssa or -ssä suffix according to the vowel harmony, and it expresses the direction of motion onto something. Moreover, it gives the meaning of English preposition 'onto'. naita: table > naidassa: onto table / naidussa: onto two tables / naidessa: onto tables => ajodet j'ödeliän … Continue reading Grammatical Case IV
ollesHi Grammatical case is 'any of the forms of a noun, adjective, or pronoun that express the semantic relation of the word to other words in the phrase, clause, or sentence.' Jembesa has 15 grammatical cases: nominative, genitive, accusative, vocative, instrumental-comitative, abessive, concerning, illative, inessive, elative, allative, adessive, ablative, essive, and agentive. In this chapter, … Continue reading Grammatical Case I
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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