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Terranese is a primarily VSO language with some allowance for VOS. It is a very head-initial language, with verbs/adverbs/adjectives always going first(in that order).
The structure follows this pattern:
Subject Verb-Subject-Object Verb-Object
Any conjunctions/prepositions go before the word they connect to or describe.
Using this rule, English sentences such as "The red dog ate my food" would change to "Ate the red dog my food."
However, Terranese has no articles, so the sentence would be more like "Ate red dog my food."
Heres an example sentance in Terranese:
Zuaho rinaitaod ni shayi!
[to be 1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I CONTContinuative (tense/aspect)
continuous or durational action/excited SGSingular (number)
one countable entity CONTContinuative (tense/aspect)
continuous or durational action/for party]
I'm excited for the party!
Here's the same sentence in VOS form:
Zuaho ni shayi rinaitaod!
[to be 1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I CONTContinuative (tense/aspect)
continuous or durational action/for party/excited SGSingular (number)
one countable entity CONTContinuative (tense/aspect)
continuous or durational action]
For the party, I'm excited!
Both ways are legal, but slightly change the meaning.
When it comes to figuring out what’s the subject or object, as in the sentence “I love him,” it can be a little tricky. Terranese is direct and doesn’t make a lot of distinctions between the subject and object besides word order. It’s really up to context and your understanding of the language. Terranese has no he/him or I/me distinction so a sentance like “I love him” would be more like “I love he,” or more accurately, “Love I he” or “Love he I.” The usual way to tell is looking at what conjugation the verb is using- if he loves me, love would be in the 3rd pov, and if I love him, love would be in the 1st pov.
Another sentance form is the compound or complex sentance. The same rules apply here. If there is a conjunction word, like for or and, the VSO order still applies.
Shaiuho turri to shaiho euge.
[to like 1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I PERFPerfect (aspect/tense)
have verb-ed PREPresent/red/and/to like 3SThird person singular (person)
neither speaker nor addressee PERFPerfect (aspect/tense)
have verb-ed PREPresent/orange]
I like red and they like orange.
Remember that the verb is placed before the adjective. In this case, the adjectives red and orange are used like nouns. That’s okay! The important thing is that everything is in place.
The last major sentance type is interrogative. Here, interrogatives are always VOS. Interrogative words like keo (what) or how (kerr) are used like verbs without congugations. They are placed up front to let you know this is a question. Another way to question something is to add -riz/-ariz. This suffix has no meaning on its own, but questions the word it’s attached to, like emphasis. It’s the difference between “A bear” and “a BEAR?”
Keo zuikh?
What did they do?
Zuikhariz?
They did what?
Both mean roughly the same thing, but in different formats. The first sentance, however, is considered more formal and proper. The second sentance is a more casual, in the moment type speak, rather like English.
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