Zonschévy

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Vowels
Vowels are lengthened when preceding voiced consonants.

/ʏ/ is the unstressed form of /y/.

/ə/ is the unstressed form of /e/ and /ɛ/.

/ʊ/ is the unstressed form of /u/ and /o/.

Nouns
Nouns are marked according to case and number.

There are 6 cases: Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive, Reflexive, and the rare Prepositional case.

Correlatives
1 The Elective and Interrogative Forms are identical.

Verbs
All verbs have three components: the stem, the root vowel, and the N-ending. Verbs are conjugated to tense (past, present, future), aspect (simple, progressive, perfect), mood (indicative, subjunctive, imperative), and voice (active, passive).

In most cases, except for some irregular auxiliary forms, the stem remains unmodified.

The root vowel determines the class of the verb and how the verb is conjugated.

The N-ending of a verb comes in two forms: -n, where nothing but -n comes after the root vowel, and -Cn, where consonant(s) and vowel(s) are between the root vowel and ''-n. ''The type of ending also affects how the verb is conjugated.

The verbs used for auxiliary purposes are: deyn (to do), heyn (to finish), zædn (to be like), bonn (to become), and zeyn (to be).

Class 1 (-ey-): Verbs of Motion
Class 1 verbs are mainly verbs that involve motion, progression, and comsumption.

Infinitive Form: -eyCn

1C is the additional consonant, Co is the unvoiced consonant, and Cf is the fricative consonant

2Inf. is the infinitive

Class 2 (-o/oy-): Verbs of Change
Class 2 verbs are mainly verbs that involve speech and change.

Infinitive Form: -oCn, -oyCn

1 Cv  is the voiced consonant

Class 3 (-æ-): Verbs of State
Class 1 verbs are mainly verbs that involve modality, emotion, and thought.

Infinitive Form: -æCn

Adjectives
All adjectives end in a vowel and precede the noun that they modify. If used as a predicative, the case ending is not required and the adjective comes after the subject.

Adverbs
-zæ is the ending attached to turn adjective into an adverb. Adverbs come before the verbs they modify.

Adpositions
Most adpositions are prepositions, with a few postpositions. The noun that complements the adposition will decline based on the direction of motion designated by the speaker. If the direction of motion is toward a location, the noun will be accusative; if it is moving away, dative. Tf the motion is oblique to, or if there is no motion at all, the locative case is used.