You can also have fun with classes! I have a language that has five classes. It has the typical masculine, feminine, but then it also has carnal, dear/cherished, and null. The speakers are immortal beings that separate by gender so that's why I had masculine and feminine, and the others for other reasons.
I can speak russian, I can speak english. I really like the instrumental case. I know how to use it. BUT IT DOESNT FIT IN MY HEAD HOW TO IMPLEMENT THAT INTO MY OWN LANGUAGE
Thank you! And my apologies. I speak German like a 4 year old right now. I learned it in highschool and sadly, my college doesn't teach it. I'll be continuing my quest to be fluent though as I adore German.
So with all the videos of yours I’ve watched in this series, I’m stuck on the name of my language, but so far, I’ve chosen the Cyrillic alphabet for my language because it is the only other alphabet I can read proficiently. I’m using the same phonetic system as Russian. Any ideas on how to set up grammar?
As far as setting up grammar, I usually so: Basic word order (SOV, OSV etc) Case (Nominative, Accusative) Tense (past, present, future) Those are pretty much the basic 3 you'll need to get started as far as grammar goes. Hopefully that helps, feel free to ask more questions if you need!
Of course! It's how I did my first language, Koltschade. I added a suffix to verbs based on their tense, and nothing stops you modifying other words too! There's no limit to what you can do when making languages. If you can find a way to make it work then it works!
"Decide your gender" Me, an agender individual *sweating* Sorry, but I just couldn't resist, especially as a German totally annoyed by our gendered language as it just doesn't make sense most of the time
Genders are like giving classes to certain nouns, in this case mainly Masculine, feminine, neuter and common (in Europe at least). Personally, I don't see them as necessary, but they can be used to add more information and make relations between nouns and other types of words more obvious using affixes or other types of modification. In English we don't really have them so it's difficult to understand their importance. Hope that's helped.
If you work in food service, it's very common to hear someone ask for "a water" or "a sugar."
but at a restaurant you will always get the same amount of water or sugar
SUPER helpful to have little videos like this explaining individual aspects of Conlanging. Help My brain at least
Yay you did plugin your discord!
Also, you released this 2 mins ago, but im assuming this is gonna be a great video!
You can also have fun with classes! I have a language that has five classes. It has the typical masculine, feminine, but then it also has carnal, dear/cherished, and null. The speakers are immortal beings that separate by gender so that's why I had masculine and feminine, and the others for other reasons.
In some language like Swedish, there's no difference between "one thing" and "a thing". That shows the link strongly.
german does that too
might be my dialect but they are pronounced differently no? for me its like EN sak and en sak
With the indefinite article in spanish un and una both come from uno (one)
I can speak russian, I can speak english. I really like the instrumental case. I know how to use it. BUT IT DOESNT FIT IN MY HEAD HOW TO IMPLEMENT THAT INTO MY OWN LANGUAGE
Just endings to nouns which have the meaning "with"
100% like rate good job
Good video, but grammatically correct would be "Ich möchte keinen Kaffee" (Akkusativ)
Thank you! And my apologies. I speak German like a 4 year old right now. I learned it in highschool and sadly, my college doesn't teach it. I'll be continuing my quest to be fluent though as I adore German.
@@Dracheneks Your pronounciation is very good. I hope your desire to become fluent in German will be fullfilled.
Thank you very much! And me too.
So with all the videos of yours I’ve watched in this series, I’m stuck on the name of my language, but so far, I’ve chosen the Cyrillic alphabet for my language because it is the only other alphabet I can read proficiently.
I’m using the same phonetic system as Russian.
Any ideas on how to set up grammar?
As far as setting up grammar, I usually so:
Basic word order (SOV, OSV etc)
Case (Nominative, Accusative)
Tense (past, present, future)
Those are pretty much the basic 3 you'll need to get started as far as grammar goes.
Hopefully that helps, feel free to ask more questions if you need!
@@Dracheneks so can I make word modifications based on their tense?
Of course! It's how I did my first language, Koltschade. I added a suffix to verbs based on their tense, and nothing stops you modifying other words too!
There's no limit to what you can do when making languages. If you can find a way to make it work then it works!
@@Dracheneks thank you
@@Dracheneks does my language have to have noun cases? I will add some in my future conlangs but I want my first to be easy on grammar
YOU DONT NEED ARTICLES! Polish (and I’m and I think other Slavic languages) don’t have them. Polish just has 7 cases and every word has cases.
"Decide your gender"
Me, an agender individual *sweating*
Sorry, but I just couldn't resist, especially as a German totally annoyed by our gendered language as it just doesn't make sense most of the time
I don’t get genders : /
What don't you understand? I'm happy to help.
@@Dracheneks I just don’t understand what they are for? And where to use them?
Genders are like giving classes to certain nouns, in this case mainly Masculine, feminine, neuter and common (in Europe at least). Personally, I don't see them as necessary, but they can be used to add more information and make relations between nouns and other types of words more obvious using affixes or other types of modification. In English we don't really have them so it's difficult to understand their importance. Hope that's helped.
@@Dracheneks this was very useful thank you so much, but just to confirm it would be like she-cat, he-cat and neutral
No, the word "cat" would be given a gender, like in German it is feminine. It does not represent a physical gender.