Languary - Day 23
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clare_dragonflySyntax test: "Let's go!"
I see two meanings in that phrase--"We should go [now]" and "Hey, you, get going."
"Should," as an auxiliary verb, doesn't get a whole word to itself in Gava†. Instead, it's a prefix: "re-".
We should go: "regejkisa leir" or "regejkish el." The first is informal, the second formal. The pronoun is not required.
For "hey, you, get going," I need an imperative mood. That's a suffix on top of the conjugated verb: "-ku".
Let's go!: gejkihesku rui! (Or you could use the masculine or feminine pronouns.) You wouldn't give an order like this to someone of higher rank than you, so only the informal conjugation is used. Again, the pronoun is not required.
I see two meanings in that phrase--"We should go [now]" and "Hey, you, get going."
"Should," as an auxiliary verb, doesn't get a whole word to itself in Gava†. Instead, it's a prefix: "re-".
We should go: "regejkisa leir" or "regejkish el." The first is informal, the second formal. The pronoun is not required.
For "hey, you, get going," I need an imperative mood. That's a suffix on top of the conjugated verb: "-ku".
Let's go!: gejkihesku rui! (Or you could use the masculine or feminine pronouns.) You wouldn't give an order like this to someone of higher rank than you, so only the informal conjugation is used. Again, the pronoun is not required.