Mirad Grammar/Parts of Speech

100% Mirad words can be categorized as: Substantives (or Nouns and Pronouns) Verbs Modifiers (Adjectives and Adverbs) Connectors (Prepositions and Conjunctions) Particles The chart below offers a more detailed breakdown: SUBSTANTIVES Nouns ( = sunduni) Common Nouns Countable Nouns    (tam....house) Animate Nouns    (tob....person) Inanimate Nouns    (pur....car) Gender-Neutral Nouns    (nyem....box) Male-Specific Nouns    ( twob....man) Female-Specific Nouns    ( toyb....woman, tayf....dress) Singular Nouns    (sem....table) Plural Nouns    ( semi....tables) Abstract Nouns    ( xeyn....deeds) Uncountable Nouns Mass Nouns    (miek....sand, gla miek....a lot of sand) Deverbal Nouns ( ~ Gerunds/Infinitives/Abstractions)   (melyexen....farming, melyexer....to farm, ifon....love) Deadjectival Nouns   (vian....beauty) Proper Nouns Full names    (Uyanmela Anx....European Union) Acronyms   (UA....EU) Abbreviations of Noun Expressions (i.m.....d.c.) Pronouns ( = avduni) Personal Pronouns    (iyt....she) Reflexive Pronouns    (aut....myself) Possessive Pronouns    ( atas....mine) Deictic ( ~ Demonstrative) Pronouns    (hus....that) Quantitative Determiner Pronouns    (glati....many of them) Reciprocal Pronouns    (hyuit....one another) VERBS ( = erduni) Tenses Present    (pe....goes) Past    (pa....went) Future    (po....will go) Atemporal    (pu!....Go!) Aspects Progressive    (peye....is going, peya....was going) Perfect    (paye....has gone, paya....had gone) Imminent    (poye....is about to go, poya....was to go) Potential    (puye....is apt to go, puya....was apt to go) Moods Hypothetical    (pu....would go, [van has] pu....[that it] go) Indicative    (po...will go, pe....goes) Voices Active    (It yijba ha mes.....He opened the door.) Passive    (Ha mes yijbwa.....The door was opened.) Medio-passive    (Ha mes yija.....The door opened.) Transitivity Transitive    (bexer....to hold) Intransitive    ( beser....to stay) Dynamicity Static    (tuja....slept) Dynamic    (tujpa....fell asleep) Focus Subject-oriented    (yafe....is able, tia....learned) Patient-oriented    (yafwe....is possible, tua....informed) MODIFIERS Adjectives ( = aduni) Deictic Adjectives ( ~ Determiners)    (duhoa?....which?, hyea....any) Descriptive Adjectives    (via....beautiful) Denominal Adjectives    (vensona....conditional) Pronominal ( ~ Possessive) Adjectives)    (yata....our) Deverbal Adjectives ( ~ Participles)    (tejea....living, obwa....removed) Numeric Adjectives    (awa....one, ewa....two) Adverbs ( = ayduni) Inherent adverbs    (voy....not) Derived adverbs    (ikay....fully) CONNECTORS Prepositions ( = ebduni) Simple Prepositions    (av....for) Complex Prepositions (be zam bi....in front of, yib bi....far from) Conjunctions ( = yanxduni) Coordinating    (ay....and, ey....or) Subordinating    (van....that, ven....if) Correlative    (hyaewa...ay....both...and) Adverbial    (johus....then, avhus....therefore) PARTICLES ( = dunesi) Interjections    ( = tipduni) (hay!....hello!, hway!....bravo!) Cardinal Numbers    (a....one, e....two) Letter Names    (a, ba, ca) Onomatopeia    (pao!, xux!) Abbreviations    (a.g.....etc., a.k.....e.g.) Musical notes    (la, ti, do) Phonotactics Nouns