Frontwords are particles that have one thing in common: they can only appear as the very first word in a sentence. Some frontwords can be seen as acting as a subject for the verb, the subject frontwords – but frontwords are never pronouns. Other indicate the type of sentence, for instance the question-frontwords.
Frontwords do neither inflect nor take derivations, so there's no real structure to talk about.
FRONTWORD rest-of-sentence
| oah | hortative, 1st person subject |
| vren | imperative, 2nd person subject |
| jil | jussive, 3rd person subject |
| vriš | yes/no |
| ēi | who, what (subject) |
| ēies | where? (location) |
| ēili | who (experiencer) |
| ēiru | whowhere (locatee) |
| ēisaþ | whom (object) |
| ēišeth | whose (genitive, possessive) |
| ēišta | when (temporal location) |
vriš u mahašeŋŋ
vriš u maha -šeŋŋ
Q:yesno 2s play -WANT
do you want to play? wanna play?
vriš u krugeármo ry sïaþ -aþ
vriš u kru -geár -mo ry sïaþ -aþ
Q:yesno 2s kill -definitely -intentionally this person -PAT
did you definitely kill this person on purpose?
ēi ry
ēi ry
Q:who that
who is that?
ēi xa
ēi xa
Q:who do
who is doing it/did it? whodunnit?
ēi bogh
ēi bogh
Q:who drown
who drowned?
ēili areìn
ēili areìn
Q:who.exp suggest
who suggested it?
ēies
ēies
Q:where
where is it?
ēies Heì
ēies Heì
Q:where kitchen
where's the kitchen?
ēisaþ kru
ēisaþ kru
Q:whom kill
who was killed?
ēiru bren
ēiru bren
Q:whowhere car
who/what is in the car?
ēišeth bren
ēišeth bren
Q:whose car
whose car is it? who owns that car?
ēišta ndy
ēišta ndy
Q:when paint
when do I/we paint?
| lenēth, uleìneta | "it is said", "they say" |
lenēth šuìkuì šuìhrenn
lenēth šuì kuì šuì hrenn
"it is said" sword live sword end
they say "live by the sword die by the sword"