Jaic's weird grammar
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is it straight forward enough
This public article was written by [Deactivated User] on 11 May 2019, 07:21.
[comments] jac Let's conjugate these words into 1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I, 2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you) OPTOptative (mood)
'wish, hope' and 3SThird person singular (person)
neither speaker nor addressee
køre (g̠̥ʰʌɐ̯)(can) - kørenar, køresidd, kørem
sørr' (sœɐ̯ʔ)(to come) - sørr'nare, sørr'sodd, sørr'm
ty (d̥ʰˢɯ)(will) - tynar, tysædd, tym
us (ys)(to talk) - usnadd, ussadd, usøvm
Looks very different right?
Jaic verbs have different conjugations depending on if they end with a consonant, a diphthong, a glottal stop (or stød), or a vowel.
As you see here, because køre ends with a diphthong, it takes "sidd" as an ending for 2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you) OPTOptative (mood)
'wish, hope' instead of "sodd", "sædd" or "sadd".
Because sørr' ends with a glottal stop, it takes "nare" as an ending for 1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I instead of "nar" or "nadd".
Because ty ends with a vowel, it takes "m" as an ending for 3SThird person singular (person)
neither speaker nor addressee as opposed to "øvm"
Hopefully this helps explain why many words use the same table for conjugation but their endings are completely different. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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