User blog:ICantEdit/TPL grammar

this blog post is about tpl grammar

Basics
To change a noun into a verb, add "pay" (the word for "do" in tpl) to the start of it. The 'y' at the end of "pay" when "pay" is attached to another word is silent, and if that word starts with a 'y', the y is removed.

Example: "yef" = life, "payef" = live, "shef" = death, "payshef" = die, "dorb" = fight, "paydorb" = fight (as in the verb)

There are 2 other things: the 'e' infix and the 'o' infix. If you want to show that a thing does this action repeatedly and/or is supposed to do it, you take the noun that is doing the verb, and attach 'e' to the end of the noun, and then attach the verb ([thing A]e[thing B]).

Example: "prow" = thing, "kan" = see, "prowekan" = thing that sees (seer)

Now onto the 'o'. If you want to show that a noun caused somethnig, you take the noun, add 'o' to the end of it, and then add whatever the noun causes onto it.

Example: "adek" = nominative singular first-person pronoun, "fesnf" = hear, adofesnf = I cause hearing