Umbrean Lessons/19 Adverbial Clause

Yet another clause here, now its the adverbial one.

The adverbial clause as the name suggests, acts as an adverb describing the verb in means of cause, time, reason, etc.


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! English The bold part is the clause and underlined is what initiates the clause.
 * I fell because you punched me
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 * pel eñalñö  x'i öm nov'dexow ñör lia loymixri ñör
 * eñalñö  nov'dexow ñör lia loymixri ñör
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Like all clauses umbrean ones are ended by appropiate endings put on the aspect/tense word but to mark what kind of modification it is a word is used infront, in this case it is éñalñö which means simular to "because", but unlike english it is placed BEFORE the verb.

While those are perfectly valid constructions in umbrean it is not the prefered one. This is how it would be done in a conversation of everyday usage.


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! Proper Umbrean ó means "and" and nóel is as mentioned before a pro-verb, removing the need to repeat an already mentioned action.
 * loymixri ñör ö éñalñö  nov'dexow ñör lia nüel
 * I fell and i did it because he pushed me
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 * I fell and i did it because he pushed me
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this form of construction only appears when an adverbial clause is used to describe the verb and is used to relieve the initial sentence of some of its information to make it more managable as the sentence structure can quickly grow beyond managable size otherwise.


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