Saksies

Overview
Saksies is a Germanic conlang closely related to the modern Germanic languages, Dutch, German, Afrikaans, Luxembourgish and has a lot in common with the English language as well.

Grammar
The Saksies grammar is relatively simple compared with German or Dutch and resembles more the modern English or Afrikaans grammar.

Vowels
Monophthongs 1In many dialects /I/ has merged with /ə/

Diphthongs

Consonants

 * This pronunciation is used when -g occurs at the end of a word. It' is frequent in the prefix ge- in past participle (resulting in a pronunciation like [Xə] e.g. gesie [Xəsi:] 'seen').

In some dialects g is always pronounced the soft way [X].

Nouns
There are no genders in Saksies. The indefinite article is e /ə/ (emphatic form: een /e:n/ and the defitine article is de /də/ (emphatic form: die /di:/).

Plural is formed by adding the suffix -(e)n /(ə)n/.

Adjectives & Adverbs
There is a number of real adverbs, any adjective in indefinite form can be used as an adverb. Adjectives have two forms: indefinite and definite.

e jong man 'a young man'

de jonge man 'the young man'

jonge mannen 'young men'

de jonge mannen 'the young men'

De man is jong. 'The man is young.'

De mannen sy jong. 'The men are young.'

Verbs
Regular verbs have only 2 forms: An unmarked form is used for present tense, imperative mood and, with the particle te, for infinitive. A form with the prefix ge- /gə/ for past participle.

Only a few verbs have a preterite form. These verbs are filed under irregular verbs in Saksies.

This is an exhaustive list of the irregular verbs in Saksies: The forms in italics are somewhat archaic. The verb 'wees' is inflected in persons in present tense. The imperative remains 'wees!'.

ex.

Present Tense: Y gee dy e kukie. 'I give you a cookie.'

Future Tense: Y sal dy e kukie gee. 'I shall/will give you a cookie.'


 * Y sal dy e kukie hef gegee. 'I shall/will have given you a cookie.'

Conditional: Y sou dy e kukie gee. 'I should/would give you a cookie.'

2nd Conditional: Y sou dy e kukie hef gegee. 'I should/would have given you a cookie.'

Perfect: Y hef dy e kukie gegee. 'I gave/have given you a cookie.'

Pluperfect: Y had dy e kukie gegee. 'I had given you a cookie.'

Imperative: Gee my e kuekie. 'Give me e cookie.'