Umbrean/Lessons/03 Adding Object

=Introduction= So now one knows how to make a very simple sentence, just a subject and the verb. That's all good but how much can be expressed by it? Well alot if its done right but thats for later lessons. =Cases= For now we shall move onto transitive verbs which takes on an object aswell, lets check the table from before again.
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! colspan=2 | Term ! Description ! Example ! colspan=2 | Subject sentence doing the verb ! colspan=2 | Verb ! rowspan=2 | Object ! Direct affected by the verb ! Indirect affected by the verb
 * The entity in a
 * Mary kissed john
 * The action in a sentence
 * You kissed him
 * The thing that is directly
 * I gave you a flower
 * The entity that is indirectly
 * I gave you a flower
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There are two types of objects but we will only use the direct one, indirect is for later lessons.

While in many languages if you know how the subject is said in intransitive verbs you know it for transitive aswell.

That is unfortunately not the case in Umbrean, in intransitive verbs it takes on the intransitive case, which is a no brainer hearing the names, but in transitive verbs it takes the ergative case.

One hear that the subject of both cases takes different cases and the direct object have also its own case called accusative case and it all need to be done properly.

Lets show it below using the word döndiu meaning "tooth"


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! Case name ! Noun declension ! Suffix ! English example ! Umbrean example ! Intransitive ! Ergative ! Accusative
 * Döndiul
 * -ul
 * A tooth fell
 * Döndiul lyomavy si
 * Döndius'
 * -us'
 * a tooth hit him
 * Döndius' lixr nov'óñ si
 * Döndiuv
 * -uv
 * He hit a tooth
 * Röc döndiuv nov'óñ si
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This of course is merely singular undefined form of each case shown there but it demonstrates in each case it takes a different form to deal with its part in the sentence. But lets get on with the real sentence now

=Objects=

Now let us add the object after the verb and get things started. Not really, one cannot do that in Umbrean without sounding completely insane, the verb comes at the end of the sentence. It is known as an SOV language, lets demonstrate the differens below in english


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! SVO language English ! SOV language in English
 * John ate the apple
 * John ate the apple
 * John the apple ate
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and here is the sentence from before with the tooth split up and analyzed for information so you can clearly see it is an SOV language.


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! colspan=6 | Döndius' lixr nov'óñ si Singular ergative undefined singular accusative To hit obj: 3P sg continious
 * colspan=2 | Döndius'
 * lixr
 * colspan=2 | nov'óñ
 * si
 * Döndi-
 * -us'
 * lixr
 * nov'-
 * -óñ
 * si
 * Tooth
 * Living
 * Tooth
 * Living
 * Living
 * He/She/It
 * To Punch
 * sbj: 3P sg
 * Present
 * colspan=6 | A tooth is hitting him
 * }
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As one can see it clearly places the subject (ergative case) before the object (accusative case) which is then followed by the verb. So if one can wrap their head around that things will get alot easier as it does remind of old english in that sense.

Here is a simple little thing to look at how to construct these simple sentences with what case to use and what placement along it all it should be placed
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! Subject Ergative Case ! Object Accusative Case ! Verb ! Tense marker
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To know the endings to use in those cases i recomend going here as it would take too much space here.


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