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Shontul Grammar

Gammar Rule 1: Verbs and Verb Tense

Nouns in Shontul can be used just by themselves, but with verbs, you have to accompany them with many things.
First is the verb tag "WO". This tag is commonly used in the language but it's not particularly needed. The main time that it's not used is in songs.
There is an ending tag for verbs but it's only used when the verb isn't connected to something. If the verb isn't changing anything else then the tag can be used.

The next thing you need to change is tense. To change a noun to a verb it needs tense to know what time the verb happened. The tense in verbs are 3 things:

RUL/LU: Future tense, soon to _____.
RAL/LA: Present tense, I am _____.
REL/LE: Past tense, I already _____.

If you want to use LU, LA, and LE: then you have to remove the last character from the root word.
For using RUL, RAL, and REL: you don't need to remove anything and just add it on with the root word.

Also anything after a verb will be counted to that action. If you say "HOKU WO AMUREL KIMI TOSH SHIANBI" or "I took your pencil" the verb will count "your pencil" as the thing being taken.

What is being taken?
Someone's pencil.
Who took it?
I did.

If you don't want this, you can use "NUL" at the after the verb.

Grammar Rule 2: Adjective and Adjective Tense

Two things are needed to make a word an adjective, but only one is needed. An adjective marker and/or a tense marker. The adjective marker perviously discussed is "TOCH".
This is placed after the adjective. The word after the adjective marker "TOCH" is the thing being described. Like in "EYUSOLEM TOCH KAYHU" [Previously Wonderful World]. What's wonderful? The World. When was it wonderful? In the past. The other marker is to mark tense, if the adjective is not one that stays the same throught a period of time. The tense markers go as followed:

MUL/LU: Future tense, soon to be ____.
MAL/LA: Present tense, I am ____.
MEL/LE: Past tense, I was ____ and I'm still ____.
MEM/LEM: Past tense plus, I was ____, but I'm no longer ____.

If you want to use LU, LA, LE, and LEM: then you have to remove the last character from the root word.
For using MUL, MAL, MEL, and MEM: you don't need to remove anything and just add it on with the root word. You only need one of these things for normal, daily conversation.
I don't need to add tense in a sentence like "HOKU TOSH AKOIRO TOCH 2(CHI)SH MECHE WO MESEREL CHELAIRO TOCH SANYO" [My 2 blue eyes looked at the green grass]
because the grass and my eyes didn't change at the time when I said that, or do they commonly ever change. But, in a case if they do change, then it's best to use tense.

Adjective tense is commonly used in descripitions about people, ones class or rank in something, etc. For example I would use tense in something like "Kimi nao daimeromumal toch yushen" [You are a very intelligent student]
because the descriptive "daimetomu" [very intelligent] is something that could be removed. This also goes for something like "Kimi nao chuharoliagemem, kemo lomeo kimi nao daiharoyi" [You were middle class, but now you are very wealthy].

Grammar Rule 3: Questions

For a sentence to be a question it needs a question ending. It's kind of like a question mark, but for the sentence to be a question it also has to have that question mark. The question endings are:

WAIKA: Commonly used in opinionated yes-or-no questions.
SHOKA: Commonly used in definitive yes-or-no questions.
WENKA: Commonly used in opinionated full answer questions.
SHAIKA: Commonly used in definitive or definitive lenient full answer questions.
NAIKA: A "light shove" question. Like: "I'm not wrong about this, right?", But replace the "right" with "NAIKA".

Grammar Rule 4: If

"If" in SHONTUL is "VYOSH". If the word is in the beginning of the sentence then "VYOSH" is added at the end of the segment being speculated.

Grammar Rule 5: "KOKO", "SOKO" "AKO"

The system for distance is "KOKO", "SOKO", "AKO". "KOKO" means "this", "SOKO" and "AKO" both mean "that". AKO is talking about an object farther away than SOKO.

AKO: Farthest
SOKO: Farther / Far
KOKO: Near / Far

Grammar Rule 6: Not

Not or to change something to the opposite of it is "RAI" in SHONTUL. You can use "RAI" when saying something isn’t what it is.