Friday, 4 July 2008

The Basic Sentence -- Finnet

 Akkia has two Ways to render a sentence.

Stacking to the right, using V2 and maybe a complement Verb at the end.

And so, stacking to the left, always Verb final.

The difference is that a Verb final is used to talk about facts, or to add information to the discourse. There's no opinion involved. Don't use Bias with this type of sentence.

Then, we come to "dil-a", and "dul-a", for present and past finnet.

They are similar to the copula "da", in the sense that they represent the Basic Verbs: adda, etta, atta, and edda -- meaning: to be (permanence), to be (of state), to do, to make, to realize, and to have, to exist, or to be located.

Actually, dil-a and dul-a are not exactly Verbs.

But well, they work similar to them.

It's a final, a sentence ending, indicating if the fact is past (perhaps, it's no more actual), or present.

There are no facts in the future tense.

Well, future tense is a very difficult question, in Akkia.

We're going to see this very soon.

If we say: "Suyer namah Ikkomi dil-a", that's how to say: "My name is Ikkomi", we say you're being factual.

It means you're not giving your opinion on that.

But how else we could say it? With the Copula.

So: "Suyer namah da Ikkomi wa" is the right way to say it.

Why? Because you're showing respect with the V2, and also indicating New Information with the particle "wa". But you can be factual. Just use "dil-a" at the very end of your sentence.

If you say: "Sae dung dil-a", that's how to say: "This is a car".

"Sao dung dul-a", meaning: "That was a car", introduces a new reference: "sae" and "sao" are Relationals used to indicate things, for "this near me", and "that afar".

We're going to see these Relationals very soon.

"Dung sae dil-a" is also correct.

It depends on what's important, because that comes first.

I hope you're enjoying the reading.

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