Your Sindarin Textbook - Chapter Two, Lesson One: Adjectives, Adverbs, and Possessive Pronouns

Your Sindarin Textbook
Chapter Two, Lesson One: Adjectives, Adverbs, and Possessive Pronouns

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We will cover something that is fairly simple but often forgotten. That something is the order of modifiers and what they modify.

Unlike English, Sindarin modifiers most often go after what they modify.

First the verb, then the adverb.*
Example: Gladho lim (to laugh quickly)

First the adverb, then the adjective.
Example: edregol moe (especially soft)

First the adverb that is doing the modifying, then adverb that is being modified.
Example: farn palan (far enough)

First the noun, then the adjective.*
Example: finn garan (red hair)

First the noun, then the possessive pronoun.*
Example: cair nîn (my ship)

*"Soft lenition" is used on the second word in these three combinations, and you will learn about lenition later.

When using adjectives in Sindarin, the adjectives become plural with the nouns they are describing.

Homework:

Symbols that you may need:
áéíóúý
ÁÉÍÓÚÝ
âêîôûŷ
ÂÊÎÔÛŶ

Wordbank

Adjectives:
Celeg (agile)

With Soft Lenition: Geleg

Plural with Soft Lenition: Gelig

Medui (last)

With Soft Lenition: Vedui

Plural with Soft Lenition: Vedui

Adverbs:
Si (now)

With Lenition: Hi

Dadbenn (prone, inclined, downhill)

With Lenition: Dhadbenn

Possessive Pronouns:
Lîn (your)

With Lenition: Lîn

Mîn (our)

With Lenition: Vîn

Nouns:
Fang (beard)

Plural: Faing

Narn (story)

Plural: Nairn

Verbs:
Tíro (to gaze)
Adertho (to reunite)

Translate the following phrases into Sindarin:

Question Answer

To gaze downhill tiro dhadbenn

Now inclined si dadbenn

To reunite now adertho hi

Our story narn vîn

Downhill now si dadbenn

Into English:

faing gelig Agile beards

fang lîn Your beard

dadbenn medui Prone last

si celeg Agile now

narn vedui Last story