Lesson 2

created by Lugrekh

 

Review

SYNTAX

All Black Speech sentences are written and spoken subject - verb - object with adjectives following the modified word.

NOUNS

Nouns use -u to pluralize words that end in consonants and -z to pluralize words that end in a vowel.

VERBS

Verbs can take one subject and one object pronoun. Pronouns attach to the verb with a -. First person pronouns (both plural and singular) go after the verb and before the object pronoun, if it is present.

-izg	I		-izish	me
lat	you		lat	you
ta	he/she/it		ta	him/it
			to	her

To make a root into a infinitive you add -at.

To make the present tense in the first and second person (singular and plural) the root verb is used. For third person singular -at is added and for third person plural -ut is added.

 
LESSON 2
 

 

NOUNS

Nouns can take a possessive pronoun to mark who that noun belongs too.

-izub	my		-izubu	our
-lab	your		-latub	your (pl)
-tab	his/its
-tob	her		-ulub	their

These pronouns simple go after the noun they are modifying.

Examples:	mokh-izub		my house		horngaz-izubu		our pet
	urûk-lab		your orc		skûtu-latub		your shields
	golog-tab		his elf		kaar-tab		it's head
	naakh-tob		her hand		lûnt-ulub		their boat

When combing these pronouns with adjectives, the pronoun goes first and then then adjective.

Examples:

mokh-izub-dur

my big house

goloh-tab-kûf

his ugly elf

 

 

VERBS

There are also a set of plural pronouns used when more than one person is being talked about. The first person plural pronouns also always go after the verb even if they are the subject.

Subject Pronouns			Object Pronouns
-izgu	we		-izishu	us	Note: Remember, these two go after the verb, even when they are the subject.
latu	you (pl)		latu	you (pl)
ulu	they		ul	them

In order to negate a sentence, just preffix nar- to the beginning of the verb.

Example

golug nargrush ul

Elves didn't kill them

CONJUGATION AND TENSE

Last lesson we looked at the present tense. This lesson we will look at the past tense.

grush-		root - kill
grushat		infinitive - to kill
grushuz		past - I/you/we killed
grushuzat		past - he/she/it killed
grushuzut		past - they killed

 

SYNTAX

We have already seen how to make basic sentences so now we will move onto more complicated sentence types. In this lesson we will look out sentences as subjects.

Example:	nargzab-izg	I want		nûrlat ghashnum-mor	to learn Black Speech
	nargzab-izg nûrlat ghashnum-mor  I want to learn Black Speech

The first sentence acts as the subject for the first sentence, so the second sentence should never have a object pronoun. The second verb can only take an object, while the first verb can take both a subject and an object. The second verb always takes only the -at suffix, no matter what the tense is. The first verb needs to be conjugated correctly.

Example:	ulu shaguzut ul	They asked them		grushat golug	to kill the elves
	ulu shaguzut ul grushat golug  They ask them to kill the elves

 

 

VOCABULARY

hanhar		sword (n)	brus-		have (v)	nargzab		want (v)
kaput		boot (n)	naragr-		disagree (v)	mushaf-		hide (v)
kûtlag		farm (n)	shag-		ask (v)	kâam-		sleep (v)
ghûlum		aid, help (n)	gathrok-		be ready (v)			be lucky (v)
laus		tree (n)	kân-		trust (v)	gimb-		find (v)
kistraum		alarm (n)	drâgh-		build, make (v)	fûr-		betray (v)
krampam		duty (n)	lâzg		shield (n)			deny (v)
snag-		serve (v)	egur-		to destroy (v)

 

LESSON 2 - QUESTIONS

Soon we make this into quiz so you can take questions online!

TRANSLATE INTO ENGLISH				TRANSLATE INTO BLACK SPEECH
1)				12)		I'm not sleeping.
2)				13)		You betray your words.
3)				14)		Your injury finds assistance
4)				15)		I ask you to hit me.
5)				16)		You want me to write you.
6)				17)		You want me to trust your pet.
7)				18)		You're not helping our farm.
8)				19)		His sword doesn't have hands.
9)				20)		You want me to lie.
10)				21)		I build homes.
11)				22)		I want to learn.