fun with nouns and verbs

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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.

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

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