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[comments] mosadjectiveadverbgrammar Circular Gallifreyan (8 articles)

1. Adjectives & Adverbs

2. Classical Gallifreyan Alphabet

3. Gallifreyan Verbs

4. Interlocking Gallifreyan Alphabet

5. Irregular Verbs

6. Lesson #1 - Interlocking Writing

7. Time Laws of Gallifrey

8. Verb Tenses

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For most human languages, adjectives and adverbs are two different grammatical classifications. In Gallifreyan, however, they are both a grammatical accident of the noun and are called Quality Nouns. A normal noun becomes a quality noun when it is used to express, as its name suggests, a particular quality of another noun. They are classified by Inherited and Momentary.

Inherited Quality Nouns refer to a quality that's timeless and it's not prone to change at any time. They are the equivalent of what we know as adjectives. Inherited QN are always the subject in a sentence and come right before the noun they modify. The later needs to change its gender to agree with the QN. They also need the verb am (to exist) to make sense. Example:

dodagçaś eiminr am
Beauty exists [in] Amy / Amy is beautiful

“Beauty” is a nature noun so the name “Amy”, a people noun, changes its gender with the suffix nr. This also helps to identify the QN and head noun in more complex sentences.
When forming sentences like "I'm happy" or "She's scared" is always necessary to add the word hefwax_ani (in - inside) after the QN. Using hefwax_ani in sentences like the example above is also acceptable (and mostly expected by Time Lords) but not obligatory.

Momentary Quality Nouns refer to qualities that are just currently being exhibited. They could be interpreted as adverbs but don't necessarily need to modify a verb or verb phrase, in fact, they never modify anything but nouns. Momentary QN come right before the noun they modify and are accompanied (optionally but again expected by Time Lords) by the postposition nivh (with). Opposed to Inherited QN, Momentary ones change their own gender to agree with their head noun. Example:

vogh gulth frek nivh irgyu
He runs with quickness [right now/for now]– He runs quickly [right now/for now]

In this case, “quickness” and “he” share the same grammatical gender so there's no need to add a suffix.

Suffixes for gender agreement:
-Time: pr [pr̩]
-Space: tr [tr̩]
-Gallifrey: sr [sr̩]
-People: lr [lr̩]
-Nature: nr [pr̩]

Neither of the Quality Nouns have to agree with their head noun's number.

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