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 - VV (/ai/)
 - CV (/ba/)
 - CVV (/bai/)
+- CV'V (/baʔ.i)
 
 Proper names _should_ end with consonants, but there is no hard requirement.
 
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@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ words, I guess. The entire vocabulary of the language can now be listed below:
 | L'ewa word | IPA  | English                   |
 | ---------- | ---  | -------                   |
 | lo         | /lo/ | a, an, indefinite article |
+| le         | /lɛ/ | the, definite article     |
 | ka         | /ka/ | subject marker            |
 | ke         | /kɛ/ | verb marker               |
 | ku         | /ku/ | object marker             |
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+---
+title: "ReConLangMo 4: Noun and Verb Morphology"
+date: 2020-05-15
+series: reconlangmo
+tags:
+ - conlang
+ - lewa
+---
+
+# ReConLangMo 4: Noun and Verb Morphology
+
+Last time on [ReConLangMo][reconlangmoseries] I covered word order and some of
+the finer points about how sentences work. This time we are covering how nouns
+and verbs get modified (some languages call this conjugation or declension).
+This is a response to [this prompt][rclm4].
+
+[reconlangmoseries]: /blog/series/reconlangmo
+[rclm4]: https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/comments/gjvczy/reconlangmo_4_noun_and_verb_morphology/
+
+## Other Noun Things
+
+At a high level, noun-phrases can be marked for direct ownership or number. The
+general pattern is like this:
+
+```
+<article> [pronoun] [negation] [number] <verb>
+```
+
+## Pronouns
+
+Here's some of the pronouns:
+
+| English               | L'ewa |
+| --------------------- | ----- |
+| me, I                 | mi    |
+| My system and I       | mi'a  |
+| you                   | ro    |
+| we (all-inclusive)    | mi'o  |
+| your system and you   | ro'a  |
+| This (near me)        | ti    |
+| That (near you)       | ta    |
+| That (far away)       | tu    |
+
+## Numbers
+
+Numbers are in [base six][seximal]. Here are a few numerals:
+
+[seximal]: https://www.seximal.net/
+
+| Decimal | Seximal | L'ewa |
+| ------- | ------- | ----- |
+|       0 |       0 | zo    |
+|       1 |       1 | ja    |
+|       2 |       2 | he    |
+|       3 |       3 | xu    |
+|       4 |       4 | ho    |
+|       5 |       5 | qi    |
+|       6 |      10 | jazo  |
+|      36 |     100 | gau   |
+
+Here are few non-numerals-but-technically-still-numbers-I-guess:
+
+| English         | L'ewa |
+| --------------- | ----- |
+| all             | to    |
+| some            | ra'o  |
+| number-question | so    |
+
+## Negation
+
+As L'ewa is more of a logical language, it has several forms of negation. Here
+are a few:
+
+| English               | L'ewa |
+| --------------------- | ----- |
+| contradiction         | na    |
+| total scalar negation | na'o  |
+| particle negation     | nai   |
+
+na can be placed before the sentence's verb too:
+
+```
+ti na spalo
+This is something other than an apple
+```
+
+## Verb Forms
+
+Verbs have one form in L'ewa. Aspects like tense or the perfective aspect are
+marked with particles. Here's a table of the common ones:
+
+| English           | L'ewa |
+| ----------        | ----- |
+| past tense        | qu    |
+| present tense     | qa    |
+| future tense      | qi    |
+| perfective aspect | qe    |
+
+## Modality
+
+Modality is going to be expressed with emotion words. These words have not been
+assigned yet, but their grammar will be a lot looser than the normal L'ewa
+particle grammar. They will allow any two vowels in any combination that might
+otherwise make them not "legal" for particles.
+
+- VV (ii)
+- V'V (i'i)
+
+## Explicitly Ending Noun Phrases
+
+In case it is otherwise confusing, ko can be used to end noun phrases grammatically.
+
+---
+
+I will probably be fleshing this out some more, but for now this is how all of
+this works.