Complex Clauses and Phrases

Relative Clause
To form a relative clause you must first determine the noun, I will use the example from the grammar section. We want to say “The boy, who studies books, is smart.” So, the boy is our subject. Then, we use the relative pronoun, QĪ, for who. We then get our verb, STV̄ΔAE, and we don’t need to conjugate it in this case. The word for book, 𐤋IB𐤓A, needs to be conjugated into the oblique plural since we want books and it is the object of STV̄ΔAE. Now we have this,

PUE𐤋, QĪ 𐤋IB𐤓A𐤓UM STV̄ΔAE,

The boy, who studies books,

To add the rest of the sentence, we act as if the relative clause wasn’t there at all. So, EST for is, and INTĒLLIGENS for smart. We don’t need to conjugate the adjective because the noun it modifies is nom. sg. Finally, we get this,

PUE𐤋, QĪ 𐤋IB𐤓A𐤓UM STV̄ΔAE, INTĒLLIGENS EST

The boy, who studies books, is smart.

Lit. Boy, who book study, intelligent is

Conditionals
For conditionals we will use the same prompt as above. We will translate “If the boy studies, [then] he will be smart.” This also gets some pronoun and verb conjugate use.

To begin, we must know that the conditional is used twice. In english it would be something like ”If the boy studies if he will be smart.” The word for if is ΔEX, so we will use that. Now we have this

ΔEX PUE𐤋 STV̄ΔAE ΔEX

Then we add the pronoun, which must be masculine singular nominative, 𐤓A, then INTĒLLIGENS ERIT for will be smart. Thats it

ΔEX PUE𐤋 STV̄ΔAE ΔEX 𐤓A INTĒLLIGENS ERIT

If the boy studies, he will be smart