Capital Emseri

Capital Emseri vocabulary

=About= Capital Emseri is spoken by the people in the capital city of Emser, this is the parent of 4 variants of the language with one eastern variant and three western variants. Most variants cannot understand Meré, which is the sole eastern variant of the language with nasal vowels and often-occurring irregularities.

=Structure & Nouns= Capital Emseri has a VSO structure, with adjectives placed after the nouns, and adverbs after verbs. Capital Emseri has 5 cases and 7 declensions of nouns (like Capital Kaavi). However, Emseri had lost the Dual form.

Cases

 * 1) Nominative - The subject of the sentence
 * 2) Oblique - The direct/indirect object of the sentence
 * 3) Genitive - Possession of a noun
 * 4) Ablative - To mark where something is going into or coming out of
 * 5) Locative - To mark where something is currently located with no movement

Declensions

 * 1) 1st Declension - This triggers endings for words that end either in -t or -d
 * 2) 2nd Declension - This triggers endings for words that end either in -s or -z
 * 3) 3rd Declension - This triggers endings for words that end in a frontal vowel
 * 4) 4th Declension - This triggers endings for words that end in a back vowel
 * 5) 5th Declension - This triggers endings for words that end either in -n, -th or -m
 * 6) 6th Declension - This triggers endings for words that end either in -š, -ž or -č
 * 7) 7th Declension - This triggers endings for words that end in -r

Example Nouns

 * avet "table" → avetai "the table" (OBL)
 * rajos "sister" → rajoset "the sister's" (GEN)
 * delagoi "field" → mira delagoisampi "from/out of the field" (ABL)
 * asere "horse" → asereter "on the horse" (LOC)
 * asvim "mouse" → asvimasi "the mouse" (OBL)
 * rie "star" → rietaum "the star's" (GEN)
 * noger "grain" → mira nogerai "from/out of the grain" (ABL)
 * šār "cheek" → šārs "the cheek" (OBL)

More Nouns

 * teles ("salt")
 * ašī ("yoke")
 * pelī ("wolf")
 * kob ("pig")
 * regap ("bear")
 * teka ("cattle")
 * asin ("nose")
 * anip ("bone")
 * hīt ("tooth")
 * āneš ("knee")
 * raģuget ("daughter")
 * joi ("fish")
 * kroka ("circle")

=Copula= The copula in Capital Emseri is just as difficult or simple as the declensions themselves. There are just as many copula variations as there are declension suffixes. The copula is shown below:

=Pronouns= Pronouns follow the same declension rules as nouns along with the same cases applied to them: =Verbs= Capital Emseri has a variety of verb conjugation suffixes and a unique way to negate them and say them with more emphasis:
 * Notice: The 2S Genitive is irregular.
 * NOTES:
 * The infinitive normally ends in -ma; however irregular infinitives may end in -va
 * The imperative ends in -ta
 * To negate a verb, add the suffix -i
 * To add more emphasis to the verb, add the suffix -als

Example Verbs

 * demorma "to grind" (INF)
 * šelomta! "milk!" (IMP) from: šelomma "to milk" (INF)
 * mierte! "dream!" (IMP PL.) from: mierma "to dream" (INF)
 * visempām "I will sow" (1S FUT) from: visma "to sow" (INF)
 * bālešab "he/she/it slept" (3S PST) from: bālma "to sleep" (INF)
 * kuortemiraba "they will drink" (3P FUT) from: kuortma "to drink" (INF)

=Conjunctions=
 * deme "and"

Vei deme ā blāgasa amasi

you and he help-2P I-OBL

"You and him help me"


 * tup "but"

Temēgab apma demaura amīs, tup rošešab nemasi

want-3S be-INF friend-OBL I-GEN, but kill-PST-3S man-OBL

"He wants to be my friend, but he killed a man"


 * kad "because"

Trēgempāb ažeti, kad avilab veiser

hurt-FUT-3S she-OBL, because love-3S you-OBL

"He will hurt him because he loves you"