Mirad Grammar/Parts of Speech


 * Mirad words can be categorized as the following parts of speech, followed by their inflectional and derivational subcategories:

  SUBSTANTIVES 
 * Nouns ( = sunduni)
 * Common Nouns
 * Countable Nouns   (tam....house, ewa tami....two houses)
 * Animate Nouns   (tob....person)
 * Inanimate Nouns   (pur....car)
 * Gender-Neutral Nouns   (nyem....box)
 * Male-Specific Nouns   ( twob....man)
 * Female-Specific Nouns   ( toyb....cow)
 * Singular Nouns   (sem....table)
 * Plural Nouns   ( semi....tables)
 * Uncountable Nouns
 * Mass Nouns   (miek....sand, gla miek....a lot of sand)
 * Deverbal Nouns ( ~ Gerunds/Infinitives/Abstractions)  (melyexen....farming, melyexer....to farm, ifon....love, xeyn....deed)
 * Deadjectival ( ~ Abstract) Nouns  (vian....beauty)
 * Proper Nouns
 * Full names   (Usom....United States)
 * Acronyms  (EA....EU)


 * 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    (besa....stayed)
 * Intransitive   ( bexa....held)


 * Dynamicity
 * Static    (tujeye....is sleeping)
 * Dynamic    (tujpa....fell asleep)


 * Focus
 * Subject-oriented    (yafe....is able)
 * Patient-oriented    (yafwe....is possible)

 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) (hey!....Yoohoo!, hway!....bravo!)
 * Cardinal Numbers     (a....one, e....two)
 * Letter Names    (a, ba, ca)
 * Onomatopeia     (pao!, xux!)
 * Abbreviations     (a.g.....etc., a.k.....e.g.)