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 Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:03 am
I am re-working a conlang I have and I want to keep it grammatically simple.
I have thought of just having a 'past' and 'non-past' tense, but in the event I want to talk of a future event....what would I do?
One of the solutions I thought of previously was to use a future word like 'tomorrow' ....
any suggestions?
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:42 pm
Well, I have a past, present, and a future tense in Niora, but that's it. How do you indicate past/non-past? (And... wouldn't non-past be the present? Maybe you could use the non-past for the future or something...)
I indicate past and future tense with a particle after the verb in Niora. I find it works quite well for me. =)
Page la. = I swim.
Page saha la. = I swam.
Page moshe la. = I will swim.
OR you could just refuse to touch on the matter and not have a future tense. cool
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:17 pm
I had it worked out so that all the verbs would be in past tense and there would be a particle to indicate 'non-past', but I gave it some thought earlier and just decided to have a future tense. Having just two was a little beyond my means right now, I need to do more research on the matter. I will save that for a different ConLang.
I like how you put Niora together. It is really cute soundiing and very straight forward, no extra grammatical stuff. (that was nice of you!)
Now I just need to finalize the word order.
Thanks 4laugh
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:16 pm
Ooo! Niora compliment! You are now officially a friend. 4laugh
*huggles*
Aherm... anywho.
I'm glad I could help. ^_^
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