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- A highly phonemic orthography- Tunisian shows a zero-copula phenomenon, ie: the verb keen ("to be") is dropped when it…
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Reminder: Tunisian is pro-drop. You don't need to use personal pronouns at all. A verb is enough to tell who the subject…
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MetathesisKt e b ("he wrote") /kt ɪ b/To say "he wrote it " you add -o at the end, but that risks the phoneme / ɪ / to b…
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First of all, personal pronouns:For simplicity, we're going to omit You (sg. fm.) and use the gender neutral form EntiPr…
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Simple futureJust add "beeş" before the simple present verb and there you have it; the simple future: Distant FutureAdd…
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Tunisian definite article is "el" in its construct form. Although it is not gendered or numbered, it becomes mutated dep…
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Tunisian prepositions are of two states:Mutated: when followed by definite nouns Construct: otherwiseConstruct is the de…
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They are pronouns that are suffixed roughly with the object pronoun
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Although it lost every aspect of Arabic grammatical cases, Tunisian developped a genitive case.The majority of nouns end…
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Abstract reflexive: used with verbs, expressing reflexive actionsEffectice reflexive: used with subjects, expressing emp…
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Questions Şnúe"What" questions, not followed with a "to be + Subject" construction, are said in Tunisian as "şnúe..."Wha…
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The elative is a gender-free number-free adjective grammatical case that marks:Comparative: if it comes after the noun S…
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PluralIt's highly irregular, you'd have a hard time memorizing each word and its corresponding plural.However some nouns…
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CausativeCausative mainly requires doubling the second consonant of your base 3-consonant verb:kber ("to grow")ka bb er…
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Sometimes Tunisians like to insert pronomial dative (for me, for you, for us...) right after the verb and before the acc…
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