Anyael: Verb Examples

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Verb Examples

The root-word for the verb 'to eat' is 'teyam'. This post is an example of all the verb forms possible, using teyam/"to eat" as an example.

Because there is no context for the subject, and there is no subject pronoun, the implied subject is "I", as per the rules of Personal Pronouns.

"prog." = Progressive, "simp." = Simple

Verb Form Suffixes

Past Perfect Imperfect Simp. teyamase teyamane Prog. teyamasi teyamani

Present Perfect Imperfect Simp. teyamoe teyamone Prog. teyamosi teyamoni

Future Perfect Imperfect Simp. teyamuse teyamune Prog. teyamusi teyamuni

Now, this is the literal meaning of all these verbs:

Verb Forms (Examples in English, Using “to eat”)

Past Perfect Imperfect Simple I ate. I had eaten. Progressive I was eating. I had been eating.

Present Perfect Imperfect Simple I have eaten. I eat. Progressive I have been eating. I am eating.

Future Perfect Imperfect Simple I will have eaten. I will eat. Progressive I will have been eating. I will be eating.

However, there are many exceptions in the roles they play. Here they are:

Real Meanings:

• In English, we use "I eat" to mean the habitive form. In Anyael, you would use "I am eating", or teyamoni (Present Imperfect Progressive), to create the habitive form.


• And, in the reverse, we use "I am eating" to mean the simple present form, to mean you are eating right now. In Anyael, you would use "I eat", or teyamone (Present Imperfect Simple) to create the simple present form.


• In other words, switch the Present Imperfect forms.


• The Past Perfect Progressive is the past habitive form. Wherein you might say, "I used to eat..." to indicate a habit in the past, in Anyael, it's, "I was eating...", or, teyamasi.


• The Past Imperfect Progressive is the pluperfect tense, or the tense you use to refer to an event that has been completed before another past action. i.e.: "I had been eating when the world blew up." see how that works? The reason I mean to differentiate this form is because in English, you can also use, "I was eating when the world blew up." But, this doesn't work in Anyael, because that form is used to mean "I used to eat." Just a heads up to prevent confusion as to the difference between the two.

Mood

Now, mood will be a tricky one. These ones have to be attached directly to the conjugated verb forms, not the verb roots themselves. The examples I will use will be the present perfect simple form, or "I have eaten/teyamose" (which stays the same between English and Anyael in translation).

Moods

Subjunctive	Interrogative	Negative	Imperative
teyamtoa/toaroseh teyam	kaeroseh teyam	teyamosepo/po teyam	teyamoi

Subjunctive: if one verb follows another, you add 'toa' to the second verb, if the same time/tense applies to both verbs, and the first verb is appropriately conjugated.

Example: Nakajae means 'to be able' or 'can' (as a verb). "I can..." or "I am able to..." would be nakajaeroni. Here, to say, "I can eat", you would say, "Nakajaeroni teyamtoa." (Congrats, you're not anorexic).

You also use this form when the second verb is in a different tense from the first verb, but like this:

If you were to say, "I wish I had eaten" ('wish' being iriafus), and you mean that you wish (right now) that you had eaten (in the past), the form would be, "iriafusoneh toarane teyam".

For the interrogative mood, this verb form is consistent: Kaeroseh teyam = "I have eaten?" (just pretend you have amnesia, here...or, if you can't, then, yau kaerohseh teyam = "Have you eaten?"). If the context has made the tense clear, sometimes just "Kae teyam" will work. This isn't strictly correct, so don't use it on academic papers, especially if your teacher is the kind who is always in a bad mood.

Now, here it gets interesting - the way you answer.

In accordance with the 'wish' statement above, you didn't eat. So, there are two ways to give this answer. The first goes like this: teyamosepo - "I have not eaten." The second goes like this: po teyam, or roughly, "no eat".

(Or you can answer "po", but this is incredibly rare. If it's your own kid using just "po" with you, then it probably means they're trying to annoy you on purpose. In movies you frequently see "the kid who is trying and failing to be a rebel" using this form.)

Also, if you want to answer yes, it's the same two: teyamose - "I have eaten". Teyam, "eat", which you only use to answer directly "yes", when the tense/context is clear.

In the simple imperative mood, the form is simply, "Teyamoi!", meaning, "Eat!" (When given by a party host suggesting you eat, it's "Yau teyamoi", as a polite command/instruction; when it's your parents being firm at dinner and demanding you eat those vegetables whether you like 'em or not, it's just "teyamoi", as an order.) The prohibitive is also easy: "po teyamoi", "don't eat". "Poi!" just means, "Dont'!".

But, remember, -(r)oi in the conjugated form can mean something else, depending on an additional suffix, which gets its own table:

Imperative Forms (Attached to: -(r)oi)

Superprobabilitve	Obligative	Approximative	Necessitative
roisup teyamuneh	roituhm teyamuneh	roiyemis teyamuneh	roiweh teyamuneh

• Roisup teyamuneh is, "I will probably eat", or, "I probably will eat", or, "I will eat, probably". (You get the idea :P)


• Roituhm teymuneh is, "I should eat".


• Roiyemees teyamuneh is, "I must eat"


• Roiweh teyamuneh is, "It seems I will eat", or "I will eat, it seems."


• And, remember - necessitative in the past is hyperprobabilitive, so roiyehmis teyamoseh would be, "I must have eaten."


• Also remember, tuhmuh is reputative, so roituhmuh teyamuneh is, "I'm supposed to eat".

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So, adding all these up, you can express “[I] was probably supposed to have been eating” in just one word. Teyam is 'to eat', and in this case, "I" is the implied subject (subject pronouns can be dropped if the subject is implied). So, "[I] was probably supposed to have been eating" would be "Teyamasiroisuptuhmuh" (Teyam-asi-roi-sup-tuhmuh).

But, that's rare. The form you will most likely here is "roisup-tuhmuh teyamasi".

So, those are the examples/uses of the verb 'to eat' in Anyael. The key 'filler' consonant is 'r' in this system (if you need a consonant separating vowels when connecting affixes to roots/other affixes, you use 'r'), so keeping that in mind, you should be able to conjugate any verb in Anyael using this as a basis.

Comments

[leesoca.livejournal.com]

My god! This is so good! Like. You're making an actual language. This is prolly hard as all hell. It's keep you busy, though, yeah? My friend Cody actually made an alphabet. It's pretty fun to pass notes with that shit. It's also funny that we still pass notes and we're in junior year. Hehe. I like anyael. I'll continue to read this.

[nyxelestia.livejournal.com]

I already have a written language for this. ;D And yeah, it's hard as hell. I had to create a whole new notebook for Anyael, and I'm researching languages all over the world to pick and choose suits and boots me and putting it all in.