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--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Adam Walker <carrajena@y...> wrote: > > Once, long ago I posted a paradigm for the present tense of "to be" in Carrajena (then called Cardadjena). You'll find the old paradigm at the end, but this is mainly to post the new paradigm as it nor esixts. > > Infinitive > > > > serri > > > > Present tense > > > > ju sunu (or sun~u) nos sumus > > tu ses (or se) tus sidis > > vos sidi vosus sidis > > vosas sidis > > su esti sus sunts > > sa esti sas sunts > > si esti sis sunts > Is 'si' the neuter pronoun? > > > I'm not sure I like the analogy on "sunt", but I'm pretty sure I'm going to drop the "s" at the end of "ses" to give an (overly?) Italianish "se". As for the sunu/sun~u problem, I may keep both pronunciations with one seen as "correct" and the other "dialectal" with the division probably being urban (Carthage/Tunis/(Algiers?) vs. rural or east (Carthage/Tunis) vs west (Algiers). > Surely the choice here on -s and n/-u depends on the allowable final consonants. If you forbid /ses/ for /se/, will you drop the /s/'s on plural nouns? > > > See below for the older version and make comments/suggestions accordingly. > > > <snip>