Fijian/Grammar

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Main Part of Speech

The main parts of speech in Fijian include 3 open lexical classes, 2 semi-open classes, and 10 closed classes, which are further categorised into shifters and grammatical systems.

Open Classes

Open classes include Verb, tagged as <v>, Adjective, tagged as <adj>, and Noun, tagged as <n>. Furthermore, nouns have several subclasses: Personal Name, Place Name, and Common Noun, which is further divided into free and bound nouns).

  • Verb <v> (including a subset of semi-auxiliary verbs)
-la’o<v> ↔ "go"
-dree<v>"pull" ↔ {{{2}}}

Semi-open Classes

Closed Classes

Closed Classes of Shifters

Closed Grammatical Systems

Pronouns

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

Classifiers

Adjective Reduplication

Word Classes

Tense and Aspect Markers

Articles

Prepositions

Demonstrative

Prefixes

Numbers