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Lonmai Luna grammar, in Zamenhof's style
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Lonmai Luna grammar rules in Zamenhof's style for the grammatical rules of Esperanto:

1, There is no indefinite article, there is only a definite article on, alike for all genders, cases and numbers. The use of the article is as in other languages.

2. Nouns don't have cases. To form the plural, add the determiner hala before the noun. If the noun indicates a person or an animal, reduplication can be used for the plural.

3. Adjectives are verbs. The comparative is made with the word den(English more), the superlative with deki(English most), they are placed after the adjectives; for the comparative the conjunction ar(English than) is used.

4. The basic numerals(not declined) are: hi, ta, ti, bo, mi, te, pa, da, wo, yu, he, ha, tai, be, wi, dai, to, so, sai and ma(English one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and zero). Numerals are formed exactly in a way they they are represented in the positional notation with basis 20. To show ordinals numbers the suffix -lok is added after the numbers.

5. Personal pronouns: se, kat, dala, sefe, seki, sefa, seka, kada, dala-dala(English I, you, he/she/it/they, we two but not you, you and I, we but not you, you and we, you, they); pronouns are themselves possessive pronouns, they are placed after the possessee when used as the possessive pronouns.

6. The verb does not change for person, number, tense, aspect, etc. To indicate information like tense, aspect, mood, voice, etc. one uses particles that are placed before the verb, and particles for tenses are not used when there are other words indicating the time. The passive voice does not require a preposition.

7. Adverbs can be formed from adjectives by placing the preposition ep before the adjective.

8. Prepositions may end a sentence. Prepositions may stand alone, or are used with adverbs indicating spatial relationships. When adverbs indicating spatial relationships are present, and the location or direction is implicit, the preposition is omitted.

9. Compound words are formed by simple juxtaposition of words(the main word stands at the end),

10. When another negative word is present, the word modo(English no, not) is omitted.

11. To show direction, the preposition e(English at) is replaced with oli(English to); to show the source or origin, the preposition e(English at) is replaced with ola(English from); the preposition ele is used to show the time.

12. Relative clauses are introduced with the word mal(English who, whom, which, that), which never changes according to case, person, etc.; noun clauses are introduced with the word hir(English that); quotations are introduced with the word lis.

13. Proper nouns, like personal names or placenames, are preceded by the determiner alen.

14. The degree of an adjective, when expressed in terms of numbers and units, are followed by the preposition fas and follow the adjective.

15. The accent always falls on the last syllable.
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