Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Verbs - General Notes

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General Note 1 About Verbs

Quenya verbs are divided into two forms.  (Fortunately you can tell, just by looking, which form you are dealing with.)

"Basic" verbs, are short and simple.   Their dictionary forms always end in a consonant:
mat-  eat,
car-   do, make,
tul-     come

"A-stem" verbs.   Their dictionary forms always end in –a–
lanta-   fall
ulya-     pour
harna-  wound

General Note 2 About Verbs

The following discussions show how to form verbs for a single subject (“he/she”).  If the subject is plural (and there is no subject-pronoun attached to the end of the verb – a future topic) add –r to the verb to make a plural verb.
lassë lanta     a leaf falls
lassi lantar    leaves fall

Download

Download a complete list of all the forms of all the Quenya verbs:
The pdf download is partway down the page.

A French version at:
The online version is about halfway down the page.

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