Basic Grammar

Information of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, suffixes, prefixes, infinitives, particles, tenses, plurals, possessives, determiners and the like should go here.

Noun - A noun is a word that refers to persons, places, things, states, or qualities.

Pronoun - A pronoun is a word that substitutes for a noun (or noun phrase) with or without a determiner, such as 'you' and 'they' in English. Example: "John took the book" can become "He took it." If John and the book have been previously mentioned, the listener can figure out what 'he' and 'it' refer to.

Verbs - A verb is a word that conveys action or a state of being. Examples: bring, read, walk, run, learn, live, lie, stand, exist.

Adverbs - An adverb is a word that modifies any part of language other than a noun. Example: quickly, incredibly, softly, well, extremely, sideways, often, however, again.

Suffixes - A suffix is an affix that is placed after the stem of a word. Examples: girls, 's' marks the plural, closed, 'ed' marks the past tense, makes, 's' marks the third person singular present tense.

Prefixes - A prefix is an affix that is placed before the stem of a word. Examples:

unhappy, 'un' is a negative prefix

prefix, preview, 'pre' is a prefix with the sense of before

redo, review, 're' is a prefix with the sense of again

Infinitives - In most uses infinitives are non-finite verbs such as 'run', 'buy', 'help', and 'lift'.

Word Patterns
All nouns in Lagian begin with hard consonants (п,т,к,б,д,г,ч).

Conversely, all verbs begin with soft consonants (м,н,ф,с,х,р), semi-vowels (й,в) and vowels (а,е,и,о,у).

Adjectives and adverbs are not affected by these rules.

Word Order
In Langian, as in English, word order denotes the subject and object of verbs in a clause. (Subject-TenseParticle-Verb-Object)

Adjectives precede the noun which it is describing.

Abverbs are inserted between the tense particles and the verb.