Interlingua For Beginners

Interlingua Classica's grammar overview is as below. Nouns : 1) Have two genders and three cases. Pronouns 1) Have two genders and five cases Adjectives : 1) In agreement with nominal cases and genders.  2) For genitival adjectives only genders. Verbs : 1) Generally has all English tenses and aspects. Including progressive. 2) Only differentiate between plural and singular with obligatory pronouns. 3) Have gerund. Used like in English like active participle in progressive aspect (tense). 4) Verbal activity gerund is replaced with infinitive. 5) Conditional is like English with some details. 6) Subjunctive is like English. 7) Subjunctive tenses will be in agreement with the indicative ones in a same sentence. Adverbs : 1) Have singular and plural forms. Numbers: 1) In agreement with nominal cases and genders Linguistic and verbal expressions: 1) Can be translated as is from English.

 We will discuss about Verbs in autnhoritative grammar. Infinitives Gerundial Nouns Gerundial nouns or nominal infinitives are infinitives that function as nouns that signify activities. This is equivalent of English gerundial noun in functions.6 Example: le venir del estate 'the coming of summer' Pensar es existir 'Thinking is existing' le susurrar del motor 'the droning of the motor' Iste viagiar de un pais al altere es fatigante 'This traveling from one country to another is fatiguing' le ir e venir del clientes... 'the coming and going of customers' Le faceres del formicas es interessante a observar 'The doings of ants are interesting to watch' Prepositional + gerundial noun form like in English such as by, without, for, of, before + sewing is also done with nominal infinitive: Illes le condemnava sin audir su defensa 'They condemned him without listening to his defense' Per rumper le osso on potera forsan rectificar su gamba...