Grammar

How sentences are structured.

Word Order

Verbs go first. Other than that, the words that are the object or subject are conjugated to be such, and those words can be freely ordered from there.

Example

This means that both and are valid translations of "Unity creates Acacia wood". The order of the words and is entirely up to the author.

Noun Conjugations

There are three conjugation classes of nouns. Nouns that end in (M-nouns), (J-nouns), or (H-nouns).

Nouns conjugate based on what role they play in a sentence. The conjugations are as follows:

	Object (dict. form)	Subject Form	Helper Form
M-nouns
J-nouns
H-nouns

"Object form" or "Dictionary form" nouns are both the form that is typically listed in the dictionary, as well as the conjugation used to make that noun the object of the sentence's verb. "Subject form" is used to make a noun the subject of the sentence. "Helper form" is used in other cases like [TODO] (helper form + sub or obj form in clauses?).

Verb Types

In Slabbic, verbs conjugate to tell you whether or not they have objects. This way, you can leave out the nouns of a sentence and still get a meaning across. Some verbs do not conjugate however, and play a stricter role. Strictly Intransitive verbs can never have an object, while Strictly Transitive verbs always have an object, so no conjugation is necessary. All of the other verbs, called Flexible Verbs, however, conjugate to specify whether or not they have an object.

	Transitive (dict.)	Intransitive form
Flexible Verbs