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Common Phrases

Note: letters in brackets indicate the letter to be added for the word's feminine form.

Suffixes

For individuals:

• -wivan : underling, honorific used for someone beneath your standing
• -modin : equal, honorific used for someone equal to your standing
• -kin  : lord, honorific used for someone of higher standing i.e a superior or noble
• -karan : king, reserved honorific for the Matis king

For adjectives and passive forms

• -a  : masculine singular
• -ae : feminine singular
• -ai : plural (masculine or feminine)

For nouns

Note: matal = to fight

• -e  : singular
• -ei  : plural
• -ena  : a contraction of "-e nar". Marker indicating a person performing an action, eg. matalena = the (male) warrior, one who fights
• -enae  : feminine form of -ena, the person performing the action is a female, eg. matalenae = the (female) warrior
• -enai  : plural of -ena, eg. matalenai : the warriors
• -a/ae/ai : marker, used in the passive voice, to indicate the person or object undergoing an action, eg. matala = the battle, the fighting

For verbs

Note: mindal = to love

• -eis  : present tense and infinitive marker (does not conjugate), eg. mindaleis = I love
• -eiti : past tense marker, eg. mindaleiti = I loved
• -ias  : future tense marker, eg. mindalias = I shall love
• -ates : imperative marker, eg. mindalates = love!

Articles

Notes on articles:

• There is no indefinite article, eg. "i ende" means "the heart" while "ende" can means either just "heart" or "a heart"
• The partitive article can also be used meaning "from" or "by", eg. "tuleiti di Zora" means "I came from Zora"

Pronouns

Personal pronouns

Possessive Adjectives

Note: Possessive adjectives agree with the number and case of the noun they modify, eg. na mane e nai sanei = my food and my thoughts

Examples:

• sa nar : his homin
• sae narae : her homin

• la mindalena : your lover
• lae mindalenae : your lover

• na mindala : my darling
• nae mindalae : my darling

• na mate : my labour
• nai matei : my labours

Interrogative pronouns

Ma  : which/what? Il  : when? Lar  : where? Manya : how? Ye  : who?

Derivatives:

* By adding "nec" in front of these words the word is negated, eg. Nec mane = nothing; Nec ilne = never; Nec yene = no-one

Demonstrative pronouns

• Tana : this, that, these, those, etc

Note:

Other pronouns

• ena  : there
• hya  : here

Prepositions

• a  : to, at, by
• an  : towards, upwards (motion)
• apa  : against, on
• ento  : after
• epe  : before
• ilya  : with
• imi  : in, on, aboard
• ten  : for, towards

Conjuncations

• cil  : or
• e  : and
• nan  : but
• nasie : because

Adverbs

• anda(e) : far, long
• ata  : still, again, yet
  • ata-  : prefix which gets the meaning of English "re-"
• hara(e) : near, short
• Ilya  : together
• uvea  : many, much
• yale  : finally, at last
• laye  : very
• sin  : as well

Numerals

Mane  : zero Mine  : one Ate  : two Nele  : three Came  : four Leme  : five Ene  : six Ote  : seven Tole  : eight Nere  : nine Caine : ten

References

Matis Language