Latin Novo

Overview

=Setting= Latin modernized into a Romance language, maintaining a little more conjugation than it did in our world. The genitive case still exists, as do 3 genders. it has been influenced by Germanic contact, and this has influenced vocabulary and some grammar features.

=Basic Grammar=

Nouns

 * Masculine - often end in 'o', genitive singular 'os'; plural 'i' and plural genitive 'is'
 * Feminine - often end in 'a', genitive singular 'as'; plural 'e' and plural genitive 'es'
 * Neuter - often end in 'u', genitive singular 'us'; plural 'a' and plural genitive 'as'

Examples

 * la rosa, le rose
 * lo rego, li regi
 * lu ovu, la ova

Adjectives

 * Agree with the noun they modify in endings (o/a/u and i/e/a)
 * Comparative is always -ior-, superlative is -issim- in short adjectives (1 or 2 syllable root) and -ism- in long adjectives
 * Some are irregular:
 * small - lytlo, minoro, minimo
 * great - magno, majoro, maximo
 * good - bono, melioro, optimo; also as bato, bettero, betsto in dialect
 * good - tello, telloro, tellissimo (Germanic borrowing; good, useful)
 * bad - malo, pejoro, pessimo
 * evil - yflo, wierso, wiersto
 * many - multo, pluro, plurimo
 * many - manigo, manigro, manigissimo
 * In comparative and superlative, the adjective precedes the noun
 * Conjugation:
 * masc. sing. lo magno, los magnos
 * masc. pl.  li magni, lis magnis
 * fem. sing. la magna, las magnas
 * fem. pl.   le magne, les magnes
 * neut. sing. lu magnu, lus magnus
 * neut. pl.  la magna, las magnas
 * Example: lo rego magno habe un caro bono - the great king has a good car
 * lo magnoro rego habe un melioro caro - the greater king has a better car.

Adverbs

 * From the adjective, drop any gender ending, and add 'e' and in the superlative use 'issime'
 * magne, majore, maxime
 * telle, tellore, tellissime

Articles

 * Definite Article
 * the: lo, la, lu; li, le, la
 * that: illo, illa, illu; illi, ille, illa
 * this; isto, ista, istu; isti, iste, ista

Verbs

 * there are of 3 types: ar, er, ir
 * Present Indicative: o, as, at, amos, atis, an
 * amar: amo, amas, amat, amamos, amatis, aman
 * Example: Lo homo amat jua femina nova - the man loves his new woman/girlfriend
 * Example: Li homini aman le novisme femine - the men love the newest women.
 * Past Perfect AR: avo, aviste, avit, avimos, avistis, aviron
 * amar: amavo, amaviste, amavit, amavimos, amavistis, amaviron
 * Past Imperfect AR: abo, abas, abat, abamos, abatis, aban
 * I did, i was doing; used for any past action, continual or at a point in time
 * amar: amabo, amabas, amabat, amabamos, amabatis, amaban
 * Le femine amaban la television de Sony.

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