Teru are the basic root words they; can hold meaning and be used as nouns, verb roots, adjectives, and adverbs. A teru like nanka for example means food or eat. By default it means food, however, if it is preceded by a tense yanru (sa/po/fu) it becomes a verb and means eat/ate/will eat depending on which you used.
Plural
To form plural words you simply add the word "nan" before the word.
Examples
Tekan
English
panana
banana
nan panana
bananas
ren
person
nan ren
people
Number
To form number forms or to make dual forms you simply place the number before the teru that you wish to modify; you don't have to add the plural maker.
Example
Tekan
English
ren
person
na ren
two people
ti panana
three bananas
fo wotu
four dogs
Gender
There are 4 possible genders in Tekan, "i" male, "o" female, "yo" middle sex, and neutral. By default all words in Tekan are neutral; in order to form a gendered word you simply place the gender word before the word you wish to gender.
Example
Tekan
English
ren
person
i ren
man
o ren
woman
yo ren
hermaphrodite person
wotu
dog
i wotu
male dog
o wotu
female
yo wotu
hermaphrodite dog
Cases
There are five cases in Tekan these being "u" nominative, "e" accusative, "to" genitive, "uto" nominative-genitive, "eto" accusative-genitive "ni" dative, and "yu" vocative. To apply a case to teru(noun) or stack you place the case word preceding it.
Example
Language
Word
Sentence
Tekan
u wotu
sa nanka u wotu.
English
the dog
The dog eats.
Tekan
e panana
po nanka u saru e panana.
English
the banana
The monkey ate the banana.
Tekan
ni ota
po ata u ita ni ota e pen.
English
to her
He gave her the pen.
Tekan
uto ita wotu
po nanka uto ita wotu e nanko.
English
His Dog
His Dog ate a mango.
Tekan
eto ota nanko
po nanka u wotu eto ota nanko.
English
her mango
The dog ate her mango.
Tekan
yu ke
yu ke!
English
Hey you
Hey you!
Stacks
Stacks are a feature that Tekan uses to form meaning that it does not have words for. There are two types of stacks, noun stacks and verb stacks; both function the same way and are made similary. Noun stacks start with a case yanru such as "u" nominative, "e" accusative, "to" genitive, "uto" nominative-genitive, "eto" accusative-genitive "ni" dative, and "yu" vocative, and end when you either hit another case or the end of a sentence. Verb stacks start with a tense yanru such as "sa" present-tense, "po" past-tense, and "fu" future tense, and end when it hits a case or the end of the sentence. Stacks are treated as if they were single words even though they more of a list of words that are interpreted to form a new meaning.
Yanru are function words that may hold meaning like teru and function as they do or a yanru may hold grammarical meaning such as tenses, person, pronouns, numbers among other things. Yanru are usually one syllable and precede the word that they operate on such as "nan panana" which means "bananas", "panana" by default simply refers to one, the "nan" makes it plural.