Paradigm Tables

Morphological patterns, declensions, and conjugations for Velari

Relational Particles

Velari uses particles to clarify the relationships between nouns and actions. The object marker ve comes before the noun phrase. Locative sa, comitative sen, and ablative al usually follow the noun phrase. Negation ved comes before the verb or sentence.

	Particle	Position	Meaning
Object	ve	before noun phrase	marks direct object
Locative	sa	after noun phrase	at / in / to
Comitative	sen	after noun phrase	with / alongside
Ablative	al	after noun phrase	from / away from
Negation	ved	before verb/sentence	not / no

Verb Aspect and Tense

Velari verbs do not change for person or number. Aspect is marked on the verb: imperfective usually ends in -a and perfective usually ends in -i. Tense is marked with particles before the verb. Present has no particle. Past uses tau. Future uses ven.

	Imperfective	Perfective
Present	-a	-i
Past	tau + -a	tau + -i
Future	ven + -a	ven + -i

Noun Declension

Velari nouns mark number and case-like relationships through suffixes. Plural uses -al. Possessive uses -au after low-vowel roots and -ou after high-vowel roots. Locative uses -ren after vowel-final roots and -en after consonant-final roots. Diminutive uses -um after low-vowel roots and -im after high-vowel roots.

	Base	Possessive	Locative	Diminutive
Singular	∅	-au / -ou	-ren / -en	-um / -im
Plural	-al	-alau / -alou	-alen	-umal / -imal