Verbs
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These conjugations are the basis of Danjo verbs.
There are 2 declensions: 1st declension, which has vowel-final stems and 2nd declension (more common), with consonant-final stems.
Examples:
1st declension: dreyte 'to dream'
2nd declension: kinete 'to breathe'
Present
dreme 'I dream', dreše 'you (s) dream', drete 'it dreams'
dremes 'we dream', dret 'you all dream', drente 'they dream'
kino 'I breathe', kineše 'you breathe', kini 'it breathes'
kinumo 'we breathe', kinet 'you all breathe', kinu 'they breathe'
Future
The future is marked by noy-V or nyo-C
‘it will dream.’
Past
the past is marked with čin-V or či-C
‘I slept.’
Negation
negation is marked with an-V or na-C
‘We do not breathe.’
Conditional
The conditional is marked with i-C or j-V. it signifies conditions or 'if only's
‘what if we do not breathe?’
-pe-
-pe- is used when two actions are performed at the same time. roughly translates to 'verb when verb' it only connects two verbs and nothing else.
-pe- can also mean 'and'
-pe- has four forms: V-p-V, V-pe-C, C-ep-V and C-epe-C.
‘you breathe when you sleep.’
Irregular Verbs
there are two irregular verbs.
išete means 'to be'
asme 'I am', aše 'you are', aste 'it is'
camo 'we are', sta 'you all are' cante 'it is'
bete means 'to become' or 'to make something into'
bo 'i become', bos 'you become', bot 'it becomes'
boma 'we become', bota 'you all become', bwand 'they become'
pocašete
means 'to be able to'
has compound forms: V-poc-V, V-po-C C-opo-C, C-op-V
‘I can't love you.’
Object Pronoun Affixes
Participle
To make a participle, get a verb's 3rd person singular conjugation and apply these rules:
-te > -teo > -tyo > -čo
-i > -io > -yo
‘Your vision is cloudy! (lit. Your seeing is cloud-like!)’
Gerund
to make a gerund:
take its infinitive
replace final vowel with o.
example:
‘crying people’
Affix Order
here:
Conditional > Object Pronoun > Tense > Negative > Ableness > Root (can be compound) > Ending