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== Grammar ==

The Caseyan grammar is inspired by slavic languages and therefore highly inflecting. In inflecting languages the appearance of a word is changed according to grammatical categories by the means of the addition of affixes or the changing of the word stem. Caseyan only utilizes the former but does this intensively. That is why word endings are usually made up of two or more parts.

The Caseyan grammar is inspired by slavic languages and therefore highly inflecting. In inflecting languages the appearance of a word is changed according to grammatical categories by the means of the addition of affixes or the changing of the word stem. Caseyan only utilizes the former but does this intensively. That is why word endings are usually made up of two or more parts. Caseyan de facto lacks grammatical gender, as every inanimate object and non-human lifeform is male by default. The grammatical gender only changes with humans and named animals/pets according to the biological gender (sexus). If a person's sexus is unknown, they are considered neuter.

In Caseyan nouns, adflecatives/adjectives and verbs are almost always derived from a part of speech, that is unique to Caseyan: the Inflecative. An Inflecative usually has at least three meanings that can be expressed by inflecting the Inflecative accordingly, i.e. adding the nominal/verbal/adjectival ending to the Inflecative. For example: дōм (house, to live in sth., inhabited) → дōмэнзy (the house); йа дōмÿтно (I live); дōмλи/дōмзă (inhabited).

=== Declination ===

===Declination===

Nouns, adjectives and pronouns are declined to the corresponding case, number and level of comparison (if needed). Caseyan has two numbers: Singular and Plural, which are represented by the -эн- and -ка- infix respectively. Comparing adjectives has three forms: the positive with no dedicated ending, the comparative (ending -кио) and the superlative (ending -çö) in ascending order. Caseyan has eight cases, which are represented differently across different parts of speech:

{| class="wikitable" style="font-family:Arial"

! Case

! Nouns / Pronouns

! Adjectives

! Question

|-

! style="text-align:left" | Nominative

| –зy

| –зă

| Who?

|-

! style="text-align:left" | Accusative

| –ио

| –их

| Whom?

|-

! style="text-align:left" | Locative

| –огōрт

| –ōера

| Preposition + whom? (e.g. under whom?/on whom?) ''or'' Where?

|-

! style="text-align:left" | Orginative

| –огōиаλ

| –ōеаиа

| From where?

|-

! style="text-align:left" | Directative

| –oгōиоλ

| –ōеōиō

| To where? / Whereto? / Whither?

|-

! style="text-align:left" | Instrumentative

| –огōба

| –ōебö

| By/with/through what?

|-

! style="text-align:left" | Possessive

| –огōрy

| –ōерy

| Whose?

|-

! style="text-align:left" | Totalitive

| –огōга

| –ōега

| On/of what?

|}

=== Conjugation ===

Caseyan verbs are conjugated according to the genus verbi (active/passive) and the tense (tempus). Unlike many other languages, Caseyan only distinguishes between three tenses: Present tense (Прèсèнс), Past tense (Прèтèритyм) and Future tense (Фyтyр). Conjugation into a corresponding person does not take place, instead another word (e.g. a pronoun) is added in front of the verb. To form the imperative, ''-те'' is added to the inflecative in active and ''-евте'' in passive.

=== Proper names ===

wip

=== Syntax ===

Casey is highly inflecting, so every declined/conjucated form of a word is usually unique and matches with only one grammatical category. Because of this, the word order in sentences is not as important as in English.

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 == Grammar ==
-The Caseyan grammar is inspired by slavic languages and therefore highly inflecting. In inflecting languages the appearance of a word is changed according to grammatical categories by the means of the addition of affixes or the changing of the word stem. Caseyan only utilizes the former but does this intensively. That is why word endings are usually made up of two or more parts.
+The Caseyan grammar is inspired by slavic languages and therefore highly inflecting. In inflecting languages the appearance of a word is changed according to grammatical categories by the means of the addition of affixes or the changing of the word stem. Caseyan only utilizes the former but does this intensively. That is why word endings are usually made up of two or more parts. Caseyan de facto lacks grammatical gender, as every inanimate object and non-human lifeform is male by default. The grammatical gender only changes with humans and named animals/pets according to the biological gender (sexus). If a person's sexus is unknown, they are considered neuter.
 In Caseyan nouns, adflecatives/adjectives and verbs are almost always derived from a part of speech, that is unique to Caseyan: the Inflecative. An Inflecative usually has at least three meanings that can be expressed by inflecting the Inflecative accordingly, i.e. adding the nominal/verbal/adjectival ending to the Inflecative. For example: дōм (house, to live in sth., inhabited) → дōм<font style="color:#00F">эн</font><font style="color:#F00">зy</font> (the house); <font style="color:#777">йа</font> дōм<font style="color:#B0B">ÿт</font><font style="color:#070">но</font> (I live); дōм<font style="color:#0AA">λи</font>/дōм<font style="color:#F00">зă</font> (inhabited).
-=== Declination ===
+===Declination===
+Nouns, adjectives and pronouns are declined to the corresponding case, number and level of comparison (if needed). Caseyan has two numbers: Singular and Plural, which are represented by the -эн- and -ка- infix respectively. Comparing adjectives has three forms: the positive with no dedicated ending, the comparative (ending -кио) and the superlative (ending -çö) in ascending order. Caseyan has eight cases, which are represented differently across different parts of speech:
+{| class="wikitable" style="font-family:Arial"
+! Case
+! Nouns / Pronouns
+! Adjectives
+! Question
+|-
+! style="text-align:left" | Nominative
+| –зy
+| –зă
+| Who?
+|-
+! style="text-align:left" | Accusative
+| –ио
+| –их
+| Whom?
+|-
+! style="text-align:left" | Locative
+| –огōрт
+| –ōера
+| Preposition + whom? (e.g. under whom?/on whom?) ''or'' Where?
+|-
+! style="text-align:left" | Orginative
+| –огōиаλ
+| –ōеаиа
+| From where?
+|-
+! style="text-align:left" | Directative
+| –oгōиоλ
+| –ōеōиō
+| To where? / Whereto? / Whither?
+|-
+! style="text-align:left" | Instrumentative
+| –огōба
+| –ōебö
+| By/with/through what?
+|-
+! style="text-align:left" | Possessive
+| –огōрy
+| –ōерy
+| Whose?
+|-
+! style="text-align:left" | Totalitive
+| –огōга
+| –ōега
+| On/of what?
+|}
+=== Conjugation ===
+Caseyan verbs are conjugated according to the genus verbi (active/passive) and the tense (tempus). Unlike many other languages, Caseyan only distinguishes between three tenses: Present tense (Прèсèнс), Past tense (Прèтèритyм) and Future tense (Фyтyр). Conjugation into a corresponding person does not take place, instead another word (e.g. a pronoun) is added in front of the verb. To form the imperative, ''-те'' is added to the inflecative in active and ''-евте'' in passive.
+=== Proper names ===
 wip
+=== Syntax ===
+Casey is highly inflecting, so every declined/conjucated form of a word is usually unique and matches with only one grammatical category. Because of this, the word order in sentences is not as important as in English.
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