Guarani/Grammar
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Overview
No gender, no definite article (although lo and la from Spanish are sometimes used). Nouns are differentiated from other word classes by their ability to take the following morphemes: -kue (e.g., oga-kue 'former house'), -rã 'nominal future' (e.g., oga-rã house'), -kuéra 'plural' (e.g., mitã-kuéra 'children'), -eta 'a multitude of (e.g., mitã-ita 'a multitude of children), ko 'this' (e.g., ko-mita 'this child'), and pe 'that' (e.g., pe-mitã 'that child'). [1]
Tense Morphemes
One interesting aspect of Guarani is the use of a tense morpheme to mark verb tense. Rather than having different verb conjugations to indicate tense, Guarani uses several affixes to indicate tense.
Guarani Present Tense
This section will cover the conjugation for Guarani verbs in the present tense. There are three main classes for Guarani verb stems: areal, aireal, and chendal.
