Tevrés: Difference between revisions

Tevrés is a [[w:Isochrony#Syllable timing|syllable-timed language]] with [[w:Stress (linguistics)#Phonemic stress|phonemic stress]].  This means that each syllable takes approximately the same amount of time, stressed or unstressed, vowels do not reduce in unstressed syllables, and that stress cannot be determined purely by phonological rules.  However, stress does follow a few basic rules;  

* If a polysyllabic word ends in a vowel or the consonants ''s'' or ''n'', the penultimate syllable is stressed; e.g. ''ve'''jar'''te'', ''morra'''jo'''ten''.  

Stress in words that do not conform to these rules is indicated with an acute accent (e.g. ''ha'''rín''''').  Often these words descend from regular penultimately stressed words that lost a final ''e'' after a sonorant (e.g. ''ha'''rín''''' from old ''ha'''ri'''ne'', ''Tev'''rés''''' from old ''Tev'''re'''sse''), or from loanwords or learned Aeranisms (e.g. '''''Fá'''çar'' from ''Faṣr'', '''''á'''pico'' from ''apicor'').  Sometimes, stress can have grammatical meaning, such as '''''lla'''vo'' ('I laugh') versus ''lla'''vó''''' ('I laughed').

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| DEF-T.DIR.SG elder-DIR.SG give-PFV.3PL pen-ACC.PL DEF-T.ACC.SG child-ACC.SG

|'The elder gave the child some pens'}}

:{{interlinear | box = yes

| DEF-T.ACC.SG wardrobe-ACC.SG BEN<nowiki>=</nowiki>make-NOM.1SG REFL-DIR friend-IND.PL

|'I am making a wardrobe for my friends'

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| but LOC<nowiki>=</nowiki>dance-T.3SG Juina-DIR.SG REFL-DIR home-ACC.SG

|'Juina only dances in their own home'}}

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| fish-ACC.PL LOC<nowiki>=</nowiki>feed-C.3SG DEF-C.ACC.PL cat-ACC.PL DEF-C.ACC.SG garden-ACC.SG

|'They feed the cats fish in the garden'}}

! scope="col" | Plural

|- style="text-align:center;"

| ''ul/uy''

| ''llos''

==== Indefinite article ====

{| class="wikitable" style="display: inline-table;"

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! rowspan="2" |  

! scope="col" | Plural

|- style="text-align:center;"

| ''as''

| ''aros''

| ''aras''

|}

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| NEG<nowiki>=</nowiki>do-IMP REFL-DIR body-ACC.SG INDEF-C.IND.SG affairs-IND.SG LOC<nowiki>=</nowiki>put-INF

| 'Don't stick yourself in other peoples' affairs.'}}

:{{interlinear|box=yes

| king-DIR.SG COM<nowiki>=</nowiki>bear-C.3SG REFL-ACC properly in INDEF-C.ACC.PL eye-ACC.PL

| 'A king should bear themselves properly in the eyes of the people.'}}

:{{interlinear | box=yes

| flower-ACC.PL give-NOM.2SG DEF-T.IND.PL child-IND.PL INTERR

| 'Will you give the children flowers?'}}  

:{{interlinear | box=yes

| DEF-T.DIR.SG wumbo-DIR.SG give-PST.3SG.C fish-ACC.SG DEF-C.ACC.SG cat-ACC.SG

| 'The man gave the cat a fish'}}

:{{interlinear | box=yes

| 2SG.PRO-IND know-NOM.1SG

| 'I know you'}}

:{{interlinear | box=yes

| story-ACC.PL tell-NOM.1SG REFL-DIR friend-IND

| 'I told my friend stories'}}

:{{interlinear | box=yes

| story-ACC.PL tell-ERG.1SG REFL-DIR friend-IND

| 'My friend told me stories'}}

:{{interlinear | box=yes

| story-ACC.PL tell-T.3SG REFL-DIR friend-ACC

| 'They told their friend stories'}}

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