Wiki-Grammar of Lidepla

kwanto – how many, how much: Kwanto (how many) bonbon (sweets) yu (you) he ("past tense") chi (to eat)? – How many sweets have you eaten?

8. Emphasizing of the whole phrase meaning: ya (before or after the predicate)

- Me (I) ya lubi (to love) yu (you)! – I love you indeed!

- Es (is) ya hao (good) dey (day)! – What a good day!

9. Emphasizing of a single word: hi (in assertion), ku (in a question)

- Me (I) hi bu (not) yao (to want) somni (to sleep). – Personally I don't want to sleep.

- Yu (you) ku bu (not) yao (to want) somni (to sleep)? – Is it you who doesn't want to sleep?

Compound Sentence

1. The sentence topic: one can specialize the topic of the sentence at the beginning.

- Sey (this) aksham (evening), ob ("if") yu (you) ve ("will") go (to go) a ("to") koylok (somewhere)? – Are you going somewhere tonight?

2. Simple sentences may be combined into complex ones by conjunctions or combination "preposition + ke":

- Me (I) pri (to like) gani (to sing) e (and) yu (you) pri (to like) rasmi (to draw). – I like to sing and you like to draw.

- Me (I) wud ("would") yao (to want) lekti (to read) bat (but) kitaba (book) yok (there is no). – I would like to read but there is no book.

- Me (I) promeni (to go walking) obwol (although) pluvi (to rain). – I'm walking although it's raining.

- Me (I) mog (can) go (go) adar (there), bat (but) sol (only) kun (with) ke ("that") yu (you) go (to go) toshi (too). – I can go there, but only if you also go.

3. One simple sentence may be a constituent of another sentence. It may take place of:

3.1. the object

a) with the conjunction ke:

- Me (I) vidi (to see) ke ("that") ela (she) rasmi (to draw). – I can see that she is drawing.

b) with preposition + the particle ke:

- Me (I) shwo (talk) om (about) ke ("that") yu (you) bu (not) gun (to work). – I talk about the fact that you don't work.

c) with the particle ob:

- Me (I) bu (not) jan (to know) ob ("if") ta (he / she) es (is) in (in) dom (house). – I don't know if he / she is at home.

d) with a question word:

- Me (I) jan (to know) kwo (what) yu (you) yao (to want). – I know what you want.

e) After perception verbs (vidi (to see), kan (to look), audi (to hear), slu (to listen) etc.) there are can be "noun + participle" combination:

- Me (I) vidi (to see) ela (her) rasmi-she (drawing). – I see her draw.

3.2. attribute

a) If the attribute phrase is before the noun, use ti .. na to mark it:

- { Ti yu (you) vidi (to see) na boy (boy) } janmog (can) gani (to sing) hao (well). – The boy that you see can sing well.

b) If the attribute phrase is after the noun, it is introduced by the particle ke:

- { Boy (boy) ke ("that") yu (you) vidi (to see) } janmog (to know how) gani (to sing) gro-hao (greatly). – The boy that you see can sing beautifully.

- { To (that) ke ("that") yu (you) shwo (to say) } es (is) hao (good). – The thing that you are talking about is good.

c) The attribute phrase may have the same subject as the main phrase. In this case the pronoun kel (..na) is used:

- Me (I) vidi (to see) boy (boy) { kel janmog (to know how) gani (to sing) gro-hao (greatly)}. – I see the boy who can sing beautifully.

- Boy (boy) kel janmog (to know how) gani (to sing) gro-hao (greatly) na es (is / are) hir (here). - The boy who can sing beatifully is here.

3.3. predicative:

a) with the particle ke:

- May (my) opina (opinion) es (is) { ke ("that") yu (you) es (is / are) verem (truly) jamile (beautiful) }. – My opinion is that you are really beautiful.

Word

1. Noun