Vegvaraki Grammar

Vegvaraki is a heavily inflected language, marking nouns for case, number, and animacy, and verbs for person, tense, voice, and mood.

Noun Endings
Vegvaraki nouns inflect for case, like Latin, German, or Russian. The noun endings signify the role of the noun in the sentence, though this may be confusing for English speakers or those used to a Western European case system.

Gender
Vegvaraki has no "gender" but it does classify nouns according to animacy.

There are also suffixes that can specify gender if wanted.

Thematic Case -h
The thematic case indicates the topic or theme of the sentence. This is not necessarily the subject.

Agentive Case -s
The agentive case is used to signify the subject of a verb who had some control over the situation.

Instrumental Case -l
Privative - midralhte

Ablative Case -kna
Inside -k'an

Into -kt'an

Out of -kn'an

SCRATCHPAD
Nouns in Vegvaraki decline, or inflect, according to different cases.