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The Beholder Tongue: A Guide for Those Who Wish to Learn
Beholder Grammar
The beholder language is inflected, much like Latin, although also much simpler.
Verbs:
The infinitive marker for verbs is ‘rt.
It is taken off and replaced by the tense/person markers below. In English,
infinitives are formed by adding “to” before the verb.
In order to create imperative forms, remove
any tense/person/infinitive and place it in the first place in the clause.
To change a verb into an adjective or
adverb(as in taking to blaze and making it ablaze, or blazing), remove
the tense/person/infinitive endings and follow the rules for those parts
of speech.
Conjugating in Present tense: Singular: Plural:
1st person: ‘et ‘ertn
2nd person: ‘idl ‘ikrd
3rd person: ‘rk ‘rnokt
Conjugating in Past tense: Singular: Plural:
1st person: ‘is ‘isrt
2nd person: ‘gt ‘grkt
3rd person: ‘rs ‘rfts
Conjugating in Future tense: Singular: Plural:
1st person: ‘di ‘dikt
2nd person: ‘fa ‘frakt
3rd person: ‘hyk ‘khyirt.
Nouns:
Beholder nouns have various suffixes that are applied according to their usage in a sentence. These are called cases.
Subjects: Although the beholder language has no sentence structure, commonly, the speaker will place the subject in the first place of the clause. In this sentence: “The boy threw the ball.”, the boy is the subject. They are placed into the nominative case.
Direct objects: The direct object is the object of the main verb in the clause. In this sentence: “The boy threw the ball.”, ball is the direct object. They are placed into the accusative case.
Indirect objects: The indirect object is indentified by “to” or “for” before the word. In this sentence: “The boy through the ball to the dog.”, the dog is the direct object. It is important to know the difference between when to use a preposition and in what cases to use an indirect object. An indirect object always has to have a direct object, so, in this sentence: “I go to the house.”, you would use a preposition, because of the lack of a direct object. In this sentence: “I give the dog to the boy.”, you would use an indirect object. Okay, now here’s the sinker: “I give you the ball.”. Is there an indirect object in that sentence? Yes, there is. “You” is an indirect object. It is implied like so: “I give the ball to you.”. Got it? Good. Indirect objects are put into the dative case.
Prepositional phrases: Nouns that come after prepositions are put into the copative case. More on prepositions later.
Showing posession: When you want to show posession in English, you add ‘s to the noun. In beholder, you put the word that would be followed by ‘s in the genitive case. Posession can also be shown by placing the word “of” in front of the noun. For instance, in this sentence: “I saw the boy’s ball.”, “the boy’s” would be in the genitive case. It could also be worded, “I saw the ball of the boy.”. Okay, now on to the case endings.
Case Endings: Singular: Plural:
Nominative: None added. 'nrk
Accusative: ‘relk ‘treunt
Dative: ‘nus ‘ibutkl
Genitive: ‘farkrt ‘pokrt
Copative: ‘nnk ‘trakst
Adjectives:
All Beholder nouns have a suffix of some kind. When placing an adjective in the sentence, add the suffix that the noun it is describing has attached to it at the time. This is important, because, unlike English, there is no Beholder sentence structure(except if specified), so the noun and the adjective could be at the opposite ends of the sentence, and verification is needed to which adjective goes with which noun
Adverbs:
Beholder adverbs take on the tense/person
endings of the verbs they describe. They are also signified by an a’ prefix.
For example, the Beholder word for soon is “a’rakkt”. If describing a verb
in the present tense and in the 1st person singular, it would be, “a’rakkt’et”.
If describing an infinitive, like this: “I want to walk soon.”, in
Beholder, soon would be “a’rakkt’rt”.