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A basic overview of the verbal morphology system in Soulla
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1. Noun Basics
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Verbal Morphology
Verbs in Soulla have four marked voices; and four moods, four tenses(counting infinitive), and two aspects (all of which fuse). On top of this, transitive verbs conjugate for both subject and object, and all other voices conjugate for subject. Because of this, simple sentences that would involve pronouns in English can be written in one word.
The four voices are intransitive, transitive, passive, and reflexive. Each one is marked using a suffix that comes immediately after the stem:
Intransitive: -r-
Inransitive verbs have no object. E.G: "hédaro" -I hunt.
Transitive: -v-
Transitive verbs have a subject and an object. E.G: "hédvoka" -I hunt them.
Passive: -mm-
Passive verbs are verbs without a subject, and instead show the object. E.G: "hédammo" -I am hunted.
Reflexive: -p-
Reflexive verbs show when the subject of the verb acts on itself. E.G: "hédapo" -I hunt myself.
The tense/aspect/mood marked directly on the verb are past, present, and future combined with perfective and imperfective. There is also an infinitive tense which doesn't take any Person. The tense/aspect/mood suffixes follow the voice marker:
Infinitive: -i
Declarative
Declarative verbs are verbs that have/are/will happen.
Past.Imperfective: -as-
Past.Perfective: -és-
Present.Imperfective: -Ø-
Present.Perfective: -ok-
Future.Imperfective: -all-
Future.Perfective: -ar-
Hypothetical
Hypothetical describes something that may happen.
Past.Imperfective: -ad-
Past.Perfective: -éd-
Present.Imperfective: -oh-
Present.Perfective: -ón-
Future.Imperfective: -am-
Future.Perfective: -arr-
Optative
Optative describes a verb that the speaker wants to happen.
Past.Imperfective: -et-
Past.Perfective: -ét-
Present.Imperfective: -ot-
Present.Perfective: -osh-
Future.Imperfective: -agy-
Future.Perfective: -any-
Imperative
Imperative verbs are commands.
Imperative verbs don't conjugate to tense or person.
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All verbs agree to their subject(the object of a passive noun is treated as it's subject), and transitive verbs agree with both subject and object. There are a separate set of affixes for transitive verbs and the other three.
Intransitive/passive/reflexive
1S: -o
2s: -e
3SA: -a
3SI: -u
1P: -on
2P: -en
3P: -an
Transitive
I'm going to put these in a table because I really don't want to write a list for this.
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