Diès Grammar

Grammar

Diès is a synthetic language. Nouns and pronouns, adjectives and articles are marked for two cases: nominative or base form, and the vocative.

Genitive is formed in three different ways. Either by using "-s" added to the "owner" (definite) of a certain object, leaving the "owned object" lenited in its indefinite singular form, eg. "valans ghlòys", meaning the woman's glass.

The second version uses the word við between the accusative definite (first position) and the subject definite (second position). Eg. "Cùn við valan" - The woman's dog.

Genitive can also be formed with personal possessives. If a noun is preceded by a possessive adjective, the following noun will be lenited, eg. "mo chu", meaning "my dog"

Articles

Articles follow the noun, as in Swedish

Indefinite plural

-consonant; +âr eg. Glòys-ar = glasses

-i; +s eg. Tafli-s = tables

-a; +or, -a eg. Val-or = women

-ra; +s eg. Litra-s = letters

definite article, plural

-âr; +ni eg. Glòysar-ni

-s; +arni eg. Taflis-arni

-or;+ni eg. Valor-ni

indefinite artice, singular indefinite and definite singular articles are based on Swedish articles. If a Swedish noun is a so called neuter, the Diès equivalent will be a neuter as well.

In eg. in janti

It eg. it glòys

definite article, singular

vowel; +n/t eg. janti-n

consonant; +in/it eg. glòys-it

Verbs

Diès verbs indicate person. A verb can be made negative, potential ("can"), or impotential ("cannot") by being left un-conjugated after the verb "kannir, kannir nið" conjugated after person. Furthermore, Diès verbs show tense (present, past and future). Negation is expressed by the word "nið" following the conjugated verb.

Future is made by the verb "vilir" being conjugated, followed by an unconjugated verb to be expressed in the future tense. Eg. "Èi vil gangir - I will walk"

Past tense is expressed by adding að or 'ð to conjugated verbs if in the 1st or 2nd person singular. Eg. "Èi varað, ann vara'ð" If the pronoun precedes a verb in its full version, ad is placed in front of said verb, eg. "Visi að gangir - we walked"

Verbs conjugate as follows;

I and You; verb stem, as in "Èi var, þù var"

He / she / ir; verb stem +a, as in "ann vara, enn vara, sen vara"

We, You, They; full verb, as in "Vìsi varir, auri varir, Þey varir"