Grammar Pite Sami language

1 grammar

1.1 cases
1.2 verbs

1.2.1 person
1.2.2 mood
1.2.3 grammatical number
1.2.4 tense
1.2.5 negative verb

grammar
cases

pite sámi has 9 cases:

nominative
genitive
accusative
inessive
illative
elative
comitative
essive
abessive


the inflectional paradigm noun guolle fish israel ruong, archived @ swedish institute language , folklore in uppsala.


verbs
person

pite sami verbs conjugate 3 grammatical persons:

first person
second person
third person

mood

pite sami has 5 grammatical moods:

indicative
imperative
conditional
potential
optative

grammatical number

pite sami verbs conjugate 3 grammatical numbers:

singular
dual
plural

tense

pite sami verbs conjugate 2 simple tenses:

past
non-past

and 2 compound tenses:

present perfect
pluperfect

negative verb

pite sami, finnish, other sámi languages , estonian, has negative verb. in pite sámi, negative verb conjugates according mood (indicative, imperative , optative), person (1st, 2nd , 3rd) , number (singular, dual , plural). differs other other sami languages, e.g. northern sami, not conjugate according tense , other sami languages, not use optative.

non-past indicative past indicative
sg. du. pl. sg. du. pl.
1 iv ien iehp 1 ittjiv iejmen iejmeh
iep ittjijmen ittjijmeh
2 ih iehpen iehpit 2 ittjih iejten iejteh
ähpen ihpit ittjijten ittjijteh
ihpen
3 ij iepá ieh 3 ittjij iejkán ittjin
iepán ittjijka

for non-past indicative versions have more 1 form, second 1 dialect spoken around björkfjället , third svaipa dialect. plurality in other forms due parallel forms not bound dialect.

imperative optative
sg. du. pl. sg. du. pl.
1 - - - 1 alluv iellun iellup
allun allup
2 ieleh iellen iellit 2 alluh ielluten ielluteh
alluten alluteh
3 - - - 3 allus ielluska ielluseh
alluska alluseh