Appendix:Bengenese parts of speech

Benweenese grammar includes several parts of speech, which are included in this online dictionary. All of them are listed on this page.

Nouns
Nouns are words that name a thing, or that denote a thing as a member of a class of similar things. Benweenese nouns may be substantive (having a physical and tangible referent, such as a person, place, or object), or they may be abstract (having a non-physical or intangible referent, such as an idea or concept). A proper noun is a special class of noun that names a particular thing. See #Proper nouns for more.

Nouns gender
There are three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine and neuter.

Proper nouns
Proper nouns refer to more specific entities than common nouns. Many of them are usually written with a capital letter and cannot be used with articles nor do they generally have a plural. Proper nouns always have neuter gender (articles ti and inn) unless they are accompanied by another noun that modifies it.

Verbs
Verbs are the words which indicate actions. Verbs in its base form are called infinitive. Benweenese verbs are conjugated in the following tenses:

Adjectives
Adjectives are the words used to describe nouns. In Benweenese, adjectives are inflected by positive comparative (more x than y), negative comparative (less x than y) and superlative (the most x). This is made by adding suffixes to the adjective roots. The suffix -ed works to make another word become an adjective.

Adverbs
Adverbs describe verbs, the way in which they were performed, and other information. An adjective can become an adverb by adding the -um suffix.

Pronouns
Pronouns are words whose main function is to replace the common or proper noun.

Determiners
Determiners are a member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.

Affixes
Affixes are morphemes that are attached to a root to make its meaning change.

Suffixes
Morphemes added to the end of a root.

Prefixes
Morphemes added to the beginning of a root.

Circumfixes
morphemes added to both the beginning and end of a root.

Prepositions
Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun to make a phrase limiting some other word. In Benweenese, they usually indicate accompaniment, time or place.

Conjunctions
A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related. For example: eg and ug.

Numerals
Numerals are words that refer to numbers, generally indicating the amount of something or the order in which something is. They are divided into cardinals and ordinals, which have the functions described above respectively. For example ho, dose and tró.