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-====== Agglutination and clitics ======+====== Lessons — Agglutination and clitics ======
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 Short, one-syllable long adjectives may act as clitics, in such case they are placed after the noun. For example, we'd like to say "fat troll", "fat" is "tûrz" and "troll" is "olog" in Nûrlâm, but to make one word we should swap their order, so it will be "ologtûrz". Word "za" (this) works similarly: "this human" may be spelled as "tarkza". In case we want to add both adjective and word "this", adjective comes the last: "this fat troll" is "ologzatûrz". The word "ûk" (all) may also work as adjective, but it comes the last: "all these fat trolls" = "ologzatûrzûk". Such joints also mean the words are pronounced fast without pauses between them. Short, one-syllable long adjectives may act as clitics, in such case they are placed after the noun. For example, we'd like to say "fat troll", "fat" is "tûrz" and "troll" is "olog" in Nûrlâm, but to make one word we should swap their order, so it will be "ologtûrz". Word "za" (this) works similarly: "this human" may be spelled as "tarkza". In case we want to add both adjective and word "this", adjective comes the last: "this fat troll" is "ologzatûrz". The word "ûk" (all) may also work as adjective, but it comes the last: "all these fat trolls" = "ologzatûrzûk". Such joints also mean the words are pronounced fast without pauses between them.
  
-When the adjective joins the noun, the definite article suffix "-um" comes after the adjective: "the fat troll" = "ologtûrz__um__".+When the adjective joins the noun, the definite article suffix "//-um//" comes after the adjective: "the fat troll" = "ologtûrz__um__".
  
 ==== Rules for joining nouns and adjectives ==== ==== Rules for joining nouns and adjectives ====
-Joining two words may be cool and cryptic, but it may become too much cryptic, so my advices are to write them separately in the following situations:+Joining two words may be cool and cryptic, but it may become too much cryptic, so I advice to write them separately in the following situations:
   * Noun + adjective joints are favorable in making new words, like names for people and places, e.g. "Lugbûrz" (Barad-dûr, Dark Tower) is literally "Tower-dark", but for some abstract dark tower it's better to spell them separately: "some dark tower" is "mûd bûrz lug" or "mûd lug bûrz".   * Noun + adjective joints are favorable in making new words, like names for people and places, e.g. "Lugbûrz" (Barad-dûr, Dark Tower) is literally "Tower-dark", but for some abstract dark tower it's better to spell them separately: "some dark tower" is "mûd bûrz lug" or "mûd lug bûrz".
   * If one word ends with same (or similar) sound as the second starts, it's better to split them: "elf" is "golug", "old" is "kû", "old elf" would be "golugkû" but in hasty speech it will be most likely pronounced as /goluggu:/ or /golukku:/ which may lead to a confusion with "towards elf" and "know all" respectively, so it's better say just "kû golug". However this rule doesn't apply to compound words and names like "Nazgûl" from "nazg" (ring) and "gûl" (wraith), "Mauhûr" from "mauh" (warrior) + "hûr" (fierce).   * If one word ends with same (or similar) sound as the second starts, it's better to split them: "elf" is "golug", "old" is "kû", "old elf" would be "golugkû" but in hasty speech it will be most likely pronounced as /goluggu:/ or /golukku:/ which may lead to a confusion with "towards elf" and "know all" respectively, so it's better say just "kû golug". However this rule doesn't apply to compound words and names like "Nazgûl" from "nazg" (ring) and "gûl" (wraith), "Mauhûr" from "mauh" (warrior) + "hûr" (fierce).
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