PLURAL (suffix): -o/-yo
POSSESSIVE (suffix): -zhe
You can go a long way with just these two. The form of the plural is determined by the noun ending and (unlike in English) is always regular - an "o" for nouns ending with consonants and a "yo" for those ending with vowels: "ear", revat, pluralizes to revato, while "heart", male, pluralizes to maleyo.
PREFIXES
ADVERB (-ly): bo-
DOER (-er): hor-
POSSIBILITY (-able): li-
SUFFIXES
DIMINUTIVE (in Spanish, -ita/o): -bet
LACK (-less): -de
COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVE (-er): -ez
SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVE (-est): -em
MASSIVE: -bez
NAME (feminine): -zha
NAME (masculine): -de
OPPOSITE (un-): -gol
ORIGIN (-ian): -ed
SURFEIT (-ful): -ul
Many words in the regular Meroned vocabulary make use of these prefixes and suffixes already, but feel free to add them. "Dark", zhey, becomes zheyez, "darker", just as it does in English.
Note that while the diminutive is used as an affectionate term, it also is literally used as an indicator of size. If you want to say "it's a little tree", all you need is bidilo, "it is", and ho, "tree", to say bidilo hobet.
Verb Conjugation
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