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 ====== Lessons — Prepositions ====== ====== Lessons — Prepositions ======
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 **//Prepositions//** are auxiliary words placed before nouns, hence their name. Majority of Indo-European languages uses prepositions together with nouns to describe directions, locations and time intervals. However, in Nûrlâm such words are usually placed **after** nouns, and are called **//postpositions//** which will be discussed in the following lesson. Nûrlâm has both pre- and post-positions, and such words are collectively called **//adpositions//**. **//Prepositions//** are auxiliary words placed before nouns, hence their name. Majority of Indo-European languages uses prepositions together with nouns to describe directions, locations and time intervals. However, in Nûrlâm such words are usually placed **after** nouns, and are called **//postpositions//** which will be discussed in the following lesson. Nûrlâm has both pre- and post-positions, and such words are collectively called **//adpositions//**.
  
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   * ândh (evening, dusk)   * ândh (evening, dusk)
   * ânsh (morning, dawn)   * ânsh (morning, dawn)
-  * ânth (early)((same form for adjective and adverb)) +  * ânth (early)((same form for adjectives and adverbs)) 
-  * ârsh (day)+  * ârsh (day, noon)
     * ârshik (yesterday)((literally "day before", but preposition "ik" acts as an adverb and then became a clitic because of the frequent usage))     * ârshik (yesterday)((literally "day before", but preposition "ik" acts as an adverb and then became a clitic because of the frequent usage))
   * fugh (night)    * fugh (night) 
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 ===== Exercise 2 ===== ===== Exercise 2 =====
 Translate from Nûrlâm into English: Translate from Nûrlâm into English:
-  - burz skâtâ shi fugh; +  - ash golug uglûrz gashnâ gus karn poi tug 
-  - mak mau ghuruzû ârshik; +  - ash ûzûl tau kâtâ lata rodum mor 
-  - Nazgûl skoirû tala bûrz lug;+  - burz skâtâ shi fugh 
 +  - dau lûg skoirû tala lugum 
 +  - kû tark maukuzâ bug hûr kârshum 
 +  - mak mau ghuruzû ârshik 
 +  - nar olog lalû shi ârsh 
 +  - Nazgûl skoirû tala bûrz kaupum 
 +  - sta golug duzuzû ânth shi ânshum 
 +  - tusk noi nâkhuzu za shra ik ândhum
  
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 +  - a frightening elf speaks only about red berries 
 +  - a green forest lies under the black mountain 
 +  - darkness comes at night 
 +  - large dragons are flying over the tower 
 +  - old human fought against the fierce sea 
 +  - many warriors died yesterday 
 +  - no trolls laugh at noon 
 +  - Nâzgûl are flying over the dark hill 
 +  - short elves were sitting early in the morning 
 +  - [one] hundred bees bit this person before the dawn 
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