Gramatika pa inglish
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Contents [hide]
1 The alphabet and pronounciation
1.1 Vowels
1.2 Consonants
1.3 Word stress
2 Simple sentence
3 Compound Sentence
4 Word
4.1 1. Noun
4.1.1 2. Pronouns that function like nouns
4.2 3. Adjective
4.2.1 3.3. Pronouns that function as adjectives
4.3 4. Adverb
4.3.1 4.2. Demonstrative
4.3.2 4.3. Compound
4.3.3 4.4. Other
4.4 5. Verb
4.4.1 6. Special verbs
5 Compound words
6 Interchange of one part of speech for another
7 Particles and affixes that don't change the class of word
7.1 1. Common
7.2 2. Noun
7.3 3. Adjective
7.4 4. Verb
8 Prepositions
8.1 2. Simple prepositions
8.2 3. Prepositions of correlations
8.3 4. Prepositions of situation
8.4 5. Prepositions of movement
8.5 6. Prepositions of time
8.6 7. Prepositions of number
8.7 8. Preposition of general meaning: pa
9 Conjunctions
9.1 1.1. simple:
9.2 1.2. doubled:
9.3 1.3. phrasal:
10 Numerals
10.1 1.1. basic numerals
10.2 Deriven worda
10.3 1.6. Pronouns
10.4 2. Date
11 Exclamations
11.1 1. Greetings
11.2 2. Politeness words
11.3 3. Interjections
The alphabet and pronounciation
At present the Latin script is most widespread, so it was chosen to be the official Lidepla script. The alphabet of Lidepla contains 25 letters ("q" isn't used, "c" occurs only in "ch"):
A B Ch D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W X Y Z
a b ch d e f g h i j k l m n o p r s t u v w x y z
a be che de e ef ge ha i ja ka el em en o pe er es te u ve wa iks ye ze
Vowels
Basic vowels: a, o, u, i, e
Vowels in Lidepla, unlike English ones, are regular and never change pronunciation. The situation is the same as in languages like Italian and Spanish.
Some examples of one syllable words with the basic vowels
ba
do
ku
li
me
Also the letter "y" is used. It sounds generally the same as "i", but is never stressed. One can say that it corresponds to the English "y". For example: ya
Consonants
b, d, g: bu
p, t, k (with aspiration): pan
z ([dz]): zun
j, ch: jan
w / v, f: fa
s (as in English, it may be voiced between vowels), sh: se
h: hu
m, n, r, l: man
The letter "x" sounds as a combination "gs" (before a consonant my be pronounced as simple "s"; like the English “x”, may be voiced between vowels, as in “exam”): ex
The combination ng is pronounced as the English ng: bruing
Word stress
The general rule is as follows: the vowel before the last consonant or "y" is stressed.
Thus, if the word ends in a consonant, the last syllable is stressed: kalAm – pencil, sabAh – morning
If the word ends in a vowel, the syllable before the last one is stressed: mAta – mother, kitAba – book, famIlia – family
The "y" itself is never stressed, it can affect the stress position though: dEy – day, ruchEy – brook
If there are 2 vowels in the syllable, one should remember that "u" and "i" in combinations (au, eu, ai, ei, oi) are not stressed, and "o" is not stressed in "ao": dao – way, auto – car, euro – euro, fail – file, meil – mail, asteroida – asteroid
There are some exceptions though, as Lidepla tries to keep the pronunciation close to widespread patterns. You don't need to memorize the rule, just read the examples attentively. (In this grammar you will meet a reminder if the stress is irregular.)
Thus, there are 4 endings that are never stressed:
-um (fOrum – forum, vAkum – vacuum, sIrkum – around)
-us (vIrus – virus, tOnus – tonus, sIrkus – circus)
-er (sUper – super, kompyUter – computer)
-en (exAmen – exam, Iven – even)
Endings -ik- and -ul- in simple (not compound) nouns and adjectives are not stressed: gramAtika – grammar, pUblika – audience, Afrika – Africa, polItike – politic, lOgike – logic, stImula – stimulus, fAbula – fairy-tale, fOrmula – formule
-im in "mInim" (the least), "mInimum", "mAximum" is not stressed.
In some special cases the non-standard stress is indicated by doubled vowel: adyoo – bye, namastee – hello, how do you do
Compound words retain the stress of the components.
The stress doesn't change when using the following:
