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=== Verb animacy classes === | === Verb animacy classes === | ||
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<div style="background-color: #fcc; padding: 2em; padding-top: 1em"> | |||
<strong style="font-size: larger">Class I – <b style="color: #c00">{{t|ho}}</b></strong> | |||
<p>For living beings and their actions.</p> | |||
{| style="margin: 0 auto; table-layout: fixed;" | |||
| style="font-size: 200%; width: 2em" | 🧒 | |||
| style="font-size: 200%; width: 2em" | 🐕 | |||
| style="font-size: 200%; width: 2em" | 🏊 | |||
| style="font-size: 200%; width: 2em" | 🗣️ | |||
|- | |||
| {{t|deo}} || {{t|kune}} || {{t|lıaı}} || {{t|kuq}} | |||
|- | |||
| child || dog || swims || says | |||
|} | |||
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<div style="background-color: #fdc; padding: 2em; padding-top: 1em"> | |||
<strong style="font-size: larger">Class II – <b style="color: #c80">{{t|maq}}</b></strong> | |||
<p>For inanimate tangible things.</p> | |||
{| style="margin: 0 auto; table-layout: fixed;" | |||
| style="font-size: 200%; width: 2em" | 🥝 | |||
| style="font-size: 200%; width: 2em" | ⛰️ | |||
| style="font-size: 200%; width: 2em" | 📦 | |||
| style="font-size: 200%; width: 2em" | 🔥 | |||
|- | |||
| {{t|zeo}} || {{t|meı}} || {{t|tıaı}} || {{t|loe}} | |||
|- | |||
| fruit || mountain || box || flame | |||
|} | |||
</div> | |||
<div style="background-color: #ccf3dd; padding: 2em; padding-top: 1em"> | |||
<strong style="font-size: larger">Class III – <b style="color: #090">{{t|hoq}}</b></strong> | |||
<p>For abstract (intangible) concepts.</p> | |||
{| style="margin: 0 auto; table-layout: fixed;" | |||
| style="font-size: 200%; width: 2em" | 🌃 | |||
| style="font-size: 200%; width: 2em" | 🔠 | |||
| style="font-size: 200%; width: 2em" | ☯️ | |||
| style="font-size: 200%; width: 2em" | 🚭 | |||
|- | |||
| {{t|nuaq}} || {{t|laı}} || {{t|chuaq}} || {{t|juao}} | |||
|- | |||
| night || letter || ideology || rule | |||
|} | |||
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<div style="background-color: #ccf; padding: 2em; padding-top: 1em"> | |||
<strong style="font-size: larger">Class IV – <b style="color: #33c">{{t|ta}}</b></strong> | |||
<p>For words that could apply to many things.</p> | |||
{| style="margin: 0 auto; table-layout: fixed;" | |||
| style="font-size: 200%; width: 2em" | 💨 | |||
| style="font-size: 200%; width: 2em" | ✨ | |||
| style="font-size: 200%; width: 2em" | ☕ | |||
| style="font-size: 200%; width: 2em" | 🌈 | |||
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| {{t|suaı}} || {{t|de}} || {{t|loq}} || {{t|reo}} | |||
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| fast || beautiful || warm || colorful | |||
|} | |||
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<div style="font-size: smaller; padding: 1em">[[User:Lynn|Lynn]]’s animacy poster, <br>outlining the main verb animacy classes. <br>[[Media:AnimacyPoster.png|See image version.]] | |||
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Every Toaq verb belongs to some verb animacy class: | Every Toaq verb belongs to some verb animacy class: | ||
* If the verb necessarily implies animacy/sentience of its subject, it's in '''class I''' ({{t|hó}}). | * If the verb necessarily implies animacy/sentience of its subject, it's in '''class I''' ({{t|hó}}). | ||