Surkian/nouns

This page deals with Surkian nouns and the case system.

Nouns
More info to follow.

Grammatical cases
Surkian has eight grammatical cases.

Nominative
The nominative case is the 'normal' case. Use the following endings: Note 1: a letter in parantheses means it has to be added only when the noun ends in a consonant.

Note 2: in the abstractive gender, add -ys after a consonant and -is after a vowel.

Example sentences
Se ort hän möde - the house is beautiful.

Ek hä ura paysan - I am a banana.

Accusative
Use the following endings:

Example sentences
Ek bäro se orte - I see the house

Ek avotä sa paysana - I love the banana

Genitive
Use the following endings:

Example sentences
Ek bäro se vok se ortur - I see the roof of the house.

Ek avotä si ovon sa paysanurer - I love the yellow of the bananas. 

Dative
Use the following endings:

Example sentences
Ek givo jyetvor ure ort - I give you a house.

Ek turvä paysanatvor nana riys - I ask the banana a few things. 

Apudessive
Use the following endings:

Example sentences
Ek ortä se ortotras - I live next to the houses.

Ek leupä ekem paysanata - I walk next to my banana.

Example sentences
Ek leupä se ortom - I walk out of the house.

Ek leupä se paysanam - I walk out of the banana.

Example sentences
Ek vito ortosō - I live on top of the house.

Ek tavä se paysanasā - I lick the top of the banana.

Example sentences
Ek vito ortosu (varu se kōder) - I live beneath the house (in the basement).

Sa paysan kitän bäroll ekem pidähasu - The banana wants to look under my skirt.