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This article discusses the language as spoken by the Tryker.

Common Remarks

Tryker Basic Meaning
lordoy hello, good day
seelagan goodbye
lorandoy good night
pacty please
grytt thank you
lorganeer bienvenue
senn sorry, pardon me

Affirmations

  • oy : yes
  • an : no
  • an...an : neither...nor

Prefixes

Honorifics

  • ny- : implies a close relationship
  • na- : implies detachment
  • nair- : implies respect

Negation

Note: amn = love

  • an : negates a word so that it has the opposite meaning, eg. anamn = dislike

Suffixes

Verbs

Note: gan = to go

  • 'elai : perfect and pluperfect past tense marker, eg. dey gan'elai = they had gone (for perfect past tense)
  • 'ela : past tense marker, eg. dey gan'ela = they went, they were going
  • 'eli : future tense marker, eg. dey gan'eli = they will go


Nouns

  • i : , eg.
  • 'al : , eg.

Articles

Singular Plural Meaning
Indefinite article: be be a, an
Definite article: ba bai the
Partitive article: be bei of

Pronouns

Personal pronouns

Tryker English
y I, me
sul you (singular)
det he, she, it
ys us, we
sey you (plural)
dey they


Possessive Adjectives

Tryker English
yem my
sulem your
detem his, her, its
ysem our
suyem your
deyem their


Relative pronouns

  • ken: what, that, which, whom


Interrogative pronouns

  • ehm : where?
  • elysem : how?


Demonstrative pronouns

  • id : it, this, that, these, those, etc

Prepositions

  • ad : to, at, by
  • antor : against, anti
  • eim : in, on, aboard
  • elys : like, as
  • ken : than
  • tor  : for, towards
  • tey : by, via, per
  • wil : with


Conjunctions

  • al : and
  • dat : because
  • ehm : wherein
  • elys : since
  • eny : but
  • ken : whether
  • ol : or


Adverbs

???

  • agan : still, again, yet
  • annios : less, fewer
  • fosti : also, too
  • willa : together

Time

  • niw : now, at present
  • nela : earlier, before, previously
  • neli : later, after, next
  • doy-niw : today
  • doy-nela : yesterday
  • doy-neli : tomorrow


Unsorted

  • o : des
  • anceart : faux

Nouns

  • annios : minus
  • nios : plus

Adjectives

  • nios : more


References

Tryker Language