fun with nouns and verbs

book/src/03_nouns_verbs/index.md

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+# Fun with Nouns and Verbs
+
+## Other Noun Things
+
+At a high level, noun-phrases can be marked for direct ownership or number. The
+general pattern is like this:
+
+```
+<article> [pronoun] [negation] [number] <verb>
+```
+
+## Pronouns
+
+Here's some of the pronouns:
+
+| English               | L'ewa |
+| --------------------- | ----- |
+| me, I                 | mi    |
+| My system and I       | mi'a  |
+| you                   | ro    |
+| we (all-inclusive)    | mi'o  |
+| your system and you   | ro'a  |
+| This (near me)        | ti    |
+| That (near you)       | ta    |
+| That (far away)       | tu    |
+
+## Numbers
+
+Numbers are in [base six][seximal]. Here are a few numerals:
+
+[seximal]: https://www.seximal.net/
+
+| Decimal | Seximal | L'ewa |
+| ------- | ------- | ----- |
+|       0 |       0 | zo    |
+|       1 |       1 | ja    |
+|       2 |       2 | he    |
+|       3 |       3 | xu    |
+|       4 |       4 | ho    |
+|       5 |       5 | qi    |
+|       6 |      10 | jazo  |
+|      36 |     100 | gau   |
+
+Here are few non-numerals-but-technically-still-numbers-I-guess:
+
+| English         | L'ewa |
+| --------------- | ----- |
+| all             | to    |
+| some            | ra'o  |
+| number-question | so    |
+
+## Negation
+
+As L'ewa is more of a logical language, it has several forms of negation. Here
+are a few:
+
+| English               | L'ewa |
+| --------------------- | ----- |
+| contradiction         | na    |
+| total scalar negation | na'o  |
+| particle negation     | nai   |
+
+na can be placed before the sentence's verb too:
+
+```
+ti na spalo
+This is something other than an apple
+```
+
+## Verb Forms
+
+Verbs have one form in L'ewa. Aspects like tense or the perfective aspect are
+marked with particles. Here's a table of the common ones:
+
+| English           | L'ewa |
+| ----------        | ----- |
+| past tense        | qu    |
+| present tense     | qa    |
+| future tense      | qi    |
+| perfective aspect | qe    |
+
+## Modality
+
+Modality is going to be expressed with emotion words. These words have not been
+assigned yet, but their grammar will be a lot looser than the normal L'ewa
+particle grammar. They will allow any two vowels in any combination that might
+otherwise make them not "legal" for particles.
+
+- VV (ii)
+- V'V (i'i)
+
+## Explicitly Ending Noun Phrases
+
+In case it is otherwise confusing, ko can be used to end noun phrases grammatically.

book/src/SUMMARY.md

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 - [Morphosyntactic Typology](./02_typology/index.md)
   - [Word Order](./02_typology/word_order.md)
   - [Morphological Typology](./02_typology/typology.md)
+- [Fun with Nouns and Verbs](./03_nouns_verbs/index.md)

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 02_typology/index.md
   02_typology/word_order.md
   02_typology/typology.md
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+03_nouns_verbs/index.md
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