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====Copulas==== | ====Copulas==== | ||
<!-- The {{wp|copula}} ''é'' ("be") links nouns to adjectives and other nouns (''É thram ávix'' - "The house is blue"; ''síethruv é kirtik'' - "that tree is a fir"). It is normally dropped in tenses other than the simple present (''Troavo volrix'' - "The park will be beautiful"; ''Síğoskave nikóln'' - That fish was a sturgeon). In High Kiravic writing it is common for ''é'' to be dropped even in the simple present. --> | <!-- The {{wp|copula}} ''é'' ("be") links nouns to adjectives and other nouns (''É thram ávix'' - "The house is blue"; ''síethruv é kirtik'' - "that tree is a fir"). It is normally dropped in tenses other than the simple present (''Troavo volrix'' - "The park will be beautiful"; ''Síğoskave nikóln'' - That fish was a sturgeon). In High Kiravic writing it is common for ''é'' to be dropped even in the simple present. --> | ||
====Verbal Nouns==== | |||
Each verb is paired with a noun, known in Kiravic as its ''Nureden'' ("master noun"). These nouns serve a similar semantic and syntactic role to infinitives and gerunds in Levanto-Sarpic languages. Verbal nouns are among the most frequently used words in the language and are extremely productive as derivational morphemes, forming the basis of many compounds. In some cases, there is a clear etymological relationship between the verb and its master noun (''va'' "do" : ''vara'' "activity"), while in others there is not (''thá'' "stand" : ''itur'' "status, position"). Several verbal nouns are grammatically irregular. | |||
===Adpositions=== | ===Adpositions=== | ||