Rapid method of Neo

the last but one syllable of words ending with a vowel : libro book; tAblo table; pAtro father; mAtro mother; Almo soul; korAgo courage ; korAga courageous ; kemlo chemistry ; serlo series ; geograflo geography; geogrAfa geographical; distrlbo distribution; distrlbi to distribute; unAlma unanimous; unalmEso unanimity.

the last syllable of words ending with a consonant: amOr love ; amlk friend ; gardEn garden ; kanOn gun ; aveutUr adventure ; experimEnt experiment; mi amAr I love ; vu venAr you come ; zi vidOr they will see; vu venUr you would come.

The s of the plural does not displace the stress : llbros, tAblos, mAtros, serlos, amlkos, gardEnos, aventUros, experimEntos.

Letter у, being a consonant, cannot carry the stress : fOlyo leaf, dOlyo mourning, dOlyi to mourn; sErye seriously (serle means “in series”).

Before another vowel, i always gets stress, even in words that already have another stress : folio madness; m lop I о shortsightedness ; blologlo biology.

Stress never falls on the vowel u in the combination guo : llnguo language; amblgue ambiguously, or after a and e : pIAudi to applause ; kAuzo cause ; klAuzo clause ; Auto motorcar; nEutra neutral; rEumo rheumatism; rEuma rheumatic.

Compound words have two or more stresses, each component keeping its own stress : dOrfoskOI village school; Artlstor Art-History; IsnOn nineteen; nOnek nOnisnOn 999 ; vlrvEstdepartmEnt men’s-clothing- department.

THE ARTICLE

Definite article lo : the. Lo patro the father; lo patros the fathers ; lo matro the mother; lo matros the mothers ; lo garden, lo gardenos the garden, the gardens.

Ending о may be dropped before a word beginning with a vowel : l’arbo, l’arbos the tree, the trees; I’ideo, -s the idea, -s ; Рок, -os the eye, -s; Puk, -os the corner, -s; l’aventur, -os the adventure, -s ; l’olda vir, -os the old man, men.

In the plural, when preceding an invariable word, ending s may be added : los Nelson exir, los Johnson entrir the Nelsons went out, the Johnsons came in; los sencesa kur d’et infan me lasir this boy’s ceaseless “whys” tired me.

Ending s may also be added to give extra weight and when suggested by a want of clearness or euphony.

There are no graphical (written) accents nor any diacritical signs in Neo.

To mark the stress of foreign or universal words ending with a stress-carrying vowel, an accent is put on this vowel : pash&, pap&. This does not contradict the principle of accents’ absence in Neo, as it only concerns “foreign” words.

This accent may optionally be replaced by an apostrophe : pasha’, papa’.

Indefinite article un : a, an. Un vir e un fem a man and a woman; no un sol boy not a single boy.

Both definite and indefinite article may optionally be omitted, as is normal practice in Russian, in Latin and in several oriental languages.

THE ADJECTIVE

The Adjective ends with the letter a : grana large; leta small; forta strong; debla weak; iza easy; dufa difficult; komoda convenient; decenta decent; blonda blond; bruna brown.

When the adjective is used as a noun, ending s must be added in the plural: lo granas the large ones; lo letas the small ones; lo blondas the blond ones; lo brunas the brown ones; I’albas the white ones; lo skuras the dark ones.Ending a may OPTIONALLY be dropped when the adjective PRECEDES the noun to which it relates (NEVER WHEN IT FOLLOWS IT), so long as this elision does not create confusion, and so long as after the elision the adjective has no more than ONE syllable or at most TWO : et dom (eta dom) this house

yen dom (yena dom) that house

bel floros (bela floros) beautiful flowers

un nus felet (un nusa felet) a pretty little girl

mi ricir va bon brif (va bona I received your good letter brif)

un gentil dam venir (un gentila a nice lady came dam)

let domos e klezos grana (leta small houses and big churches domos)

il un gentil boy (gentila boy) he is a nice boy.

The ADVERB deriving from an adjective ends with the letter e : lorta strong, forte strongly ; en erg a energetic, energe energetically, ekonoma, -ome economic, -ically.

THE NOUN

The Noun ends with о (plural os): frato, fratos brother, brothers; soro, soros sister, sisters ; gardeno, gardenos garden, gardens ; tablo, tablos table, tables ; libro, libros book, books.

Ending о is frequently dropped IN THE SINGULAR, so long as the pronunciation remains very easy : frat, sor, garden. One may not say tabl, libr, because the pronunciation would be difficult. THE PLURAL ENDING os IS NEVER DROPPED.

Ending-in is used to design feminine nouns : doktor, doktorin doctor, lady doctor; roy, royin (usual contraction : roin) king, queen; leon, -in lion, lioness; vender, venderin seller (m, ); amik, amikin friend (m, ); librer, librerin bookseller (m, ); biblioteker, bibliotekerin (usual contraction : bibliotekin) librarian (m, ).

PRONOUNS

SUBJECT (1) OBJECT (1)