The following is the concise description of a conlang named "Rebisi".
Description of features:
1. Rebisi is SOV;
2. Rebisi is a fusional language, using suffixes;
3. Rebisi has nouns, adjectives, verbs and prepositions;
4. Rebisi lacks articles;
5. Rebisi has nominal gender;
6. Rebisi has grammatical number;
7. Rebisi has two verbal tenses: present and past.
Nouns:
1. Rebisi has four noun cases: nominative, accusative, dative and locative;
2. Rebisi has two grammatical genders: feminine and masculine;
3. Nouns are declined for the following:
a. grammatical number (singular and plural);
b. grammatical case.
4. In the below table, the suffixes for the Rebisi nominal declension are shown. It shows the four noun cases as columns, and the genders, both singular and plural, as rows. The nominative forms for the singular are not given, as they are equal to the base form of the word.
| nominative | accusative | dative | locative
-------------------+------------+------------+--------+---------
Masculine singular | - | -e | -el | -o
Feminine singular | - | -ay | -al | -a
Masculine plural | -om | -em | -elem | -emo
Feminine plural | -au | -aya | -ayam | -ayo
5. If a noun ends with a vowel (that is, one of "a", "e", "i", "o" or "u"), that vowel is removed before applying the suffix. For example, "mense" (a masculine word) becomes "menso" in the locative singular, as the final vowel "e" is replaced by the suffix "o".
6. If a noun does not end with a vowel, the suffix is directly applied. For example, "stul" (a masculine word) becomes "stulo" in the locative singular, as the suffix "o" is applied directly.
Adjectives:
1. Adjectives agree with their noun in number and case;
2. In the below table, the suffixes for the Rebisi adjectival declension are shown. It shows the four noun cases as columns, and the genders, both singular and plural, as rows. As can be seen, for all cases except the nominative, the singular and plural forms are identical.
nominative | accusative | dative | locative
-------------------+------------+------------+--------+---------
Masculine singular | -e | -em | -el | -o
Feminine singular | -a | -ay | -al | -a
Masculine plural | -ea | -em | -el | -o
Feminine plural | -au | -ay | -al | -a
Verbs:
1. Verbs have two tenses, present tense and past tense;
2. Verbs are conjugated for tense and number, and gender in the singular;
3. The verb agrees with the subject for number and gender;
4. In the below table, the suffixes for the Rebisi verbal conjugations are shown. It shows the tenses as columns, and the genders, both singular and plural, as rows. Note that the plural form does not make a distinction between masculine and feminine.
| present | past
-------------------+---------+----------
Masculine singular | -o | -one
Feminine singular | -a | -ane
Plural (masc+fem) | -am | -anam
Prepositions:
1. Prepositions govern a noun case, i.e. the case of the noun that comes after the preposition depends on the inherent property of the preposition.
a. For example, "into the room" is translated as "ina syambe", where "ina" means "into", and "syambe" is the accusative masculine singular of "syambe", meaning "room", as the preposition "ina" governs the accusative case.
Word order:
1. Rebisi is an SOV language;
2. Adjectives follow the noun.
a. For example, in the nominative case, "the tall table" is "mense aye", as "mense" is the masculine nominative singular noun for "table", and "aye" is the masculine nominative singular adjective for "tall";
3. Prepositions preceed the noun;
a. E.g. "in the room" is "deda syambo", where "deda" is a preposition meaning "in", and "syambo" is the locative singular of the masculine noun "syambe", meaning "room";
4. Prepositional phrases preceed the verb;
5. Prepositional phrases come after any objects;
Noun case uses:
1. The nominative is used for subjects;
2. The accusative case is used for direct objects and with certain prepositions;
3. The dative case is used for indirect objects;
4. The locative case is used with certain prepositions.
Vocabulary:
Nouns:
Between parenthesis, after the noun, the gender is given (m = masculine, f = feminine):
apple (f) - mala
table (m) - mense
book (f) - kitaba
man (m) - ome
woman (f) - fama
chair(m) - stul
letter (f) - letra
room (m) - syambe
Verbs:
The forms given are the roots, the verbal suffix per the table above are added to it:
to eat - et
to put - set
to see - vor
to sit - sed
to walk - amul
to write - skrif
Adjectives:
Given are the root forms. The adjectival suffixes, per the table above, are added to these:
tall - ay
beautiful - bon
small - tin
heavy - lod
large - bik
long - lun
Prepositions:
Between parenthesis, after the preposition, the noun case it governs (acc = accusative, loc = locative, dat = dative)
on (loc) - sus
in (loc) - deda
into (acc) - ina
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Given the above grammar and vocabulary, translate the following English sentences into the language:
- The tall woman puts the book on the table
- The man saw the beautiful woman
- The small women ate apples
- The man sits on the heavy chair
- The apple sat on the large table
- The woman writes a long letter
- The tall man walked into the large room
