Guide:Nouns and Adjectives and Word Order

Basic Overview

In Tansord, all nouns are adjectives, and vice versa. Adjectives go before the noun, except for 4 specific adjectives: Ren (person), Am (people/nation), Ka (language), Iri (state/country/land of a people), as well as units of time (months, days, years, etc). Tansord uses the SVO word order.

Most plurals are formed with the suffix -it (or -t, if the root already ends with a vowel). There are three exceptions:

1. The plural of Ka is Kaa.
2. For words with 3 syllables or more ending with -VCV (vowel-consonant-vowel) when it is not the subject of the sentence. (i.e. agura -> "agurat" as the subject, "agur" otherwise).
3. For the vocative case, plurals are formed differently (more below).

Vocative Case

The vocative case is used when directly addressing the noun. The suffix -oy is used for the singular when the root ends with a consonant (-oyt in plural), and -ye/-yet (for singular/plural respectively) if the root ends with a vowel.

A pattern of consonant mutation is applied (and shown in writing) depending on the last consonant in all roots with 3 syllables or more OR in roots with two syllables that end in a consonant.

Initial root consonant -> after mutation

1. g -> k
2. b -> p
3. d -> t
4. c -> s
5. k -> q

• Erika: Eriqaye
• Haveg (friend): Havekoy
• Tabibit (doctors): Tabipoyt