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{{Infobox language
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|imagesize =
|name = Themsaran
|nativename = ''themsármā''
|pronunciation=  /θè̞msarꜜmaː/
|region = Talsem
|extinct = 220 v.K.
|familycolor=Caucasian
|fam1= [[Zachydic languages|Zachydic]]
|fam2= [[Raxo-Talsmic languages|Raxo-Talsmic]]
|fam3= [[Talsmic languages|Talsmic]]
|script=Themsaran script, Raxic script
|iso3=qth
|notice=IPA
}}


{{ClassMeter
|Name      = {{PAGENAME}}
|NativeName = gávthȁ themsármā
|Type      = Fusional
|Alignment  = Nominative-accusative
|adjective = first
|adposition = first
|adverb= mixed
|article= first
|relativeclause = first
|nounclause = first
|order = VSO
|Tonal      = Yes
|Genders    = 2
|Declined  = Yes
|Conjugated = Yes
|Case  = no
|Number = Yes
|Definiteness = Yes
|Gender = Yes
|Voice  = Yes
|Mood  = Yes
|Person = Yes
|Number = Yes
|Tense  = Yes
|Aspect = Yes
|}}
Themsaran is my first constructed language, for my conworld of Hheergem. It is intended to be a head-initial, head-marking language with a plausible development from a dependent-/double-marking language. The grammar, syntax and morphology has been heavily influenced by Semitic and Celtic languages. Aesthetically it has hints of [[w:Baltic languages|Baltic]], [[w:Germanic languages|Germanic]], [[w:Celtic languages|Celtic]], [[w:Semitic languages|Semitic]], [[w:Khmer language|Khmer]] and [[w:Gyeongsang dialect|Gyeongsang Korean]]. The main departure from Semitic grammar is that the language has been augmented with new features such as strict head-marking inflection utilizing two types of switch-reference on verbs, the applicative voice and borderline polysynthesis. So I guess it ends up a tad more like some Native American languages. Other purposes of my language include mixing in un-English verb syntax, such as the use of optatives  in subordinate clauses, and using principally non-finite subordinate clauses in the indicative.
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==Background==
:''See also: [[Themsaran/Sound changes from Proto-Talsmic]].
The '''Themsaran''' (/ˈθɛmsɑɹən/) '''language''' (Themsaran: ''gávthȁ themsármā'' [gáʊ̯fθàː θè̞msármàː] "the Themsaran mouth") was traditionally classified into a [[Talsmic languages|separate subbranch]] of the [[Zachydic languages|Zachydic]] language family, along with other para-Themsaran languages which are/were natively spoken in the island of Tálsèm off the northeastern coast of the Zachydi subcontinent. (Since then, Talsmic's [[Raxo-Talsmic languages|close ties]] to Ractamic languages, such as Raxic, has gained widespread recognition.) Due to its long period of isolation and substrate influence, Themsaran is a typological and lexical outlier in its family, within which it is distinguished by its heavily head-marking inflection in both clauses and possessive NPs as well as its strongly head-initial syntax. The language possesses mixed fusional and agglutinative inflection, and nominative-accusative morphosyntax (mostly). The name of the language comes from the Themsár region, from whose dialect arose the prestige language of the island. This elevated language existed in a state of diglossia with the diverse and often mutually unintelligible vernacular "dialects". Classical Themsaran was used as a living language by the ruling class for a period spanning 600 years until its demise in the year ca. 220 v.K., and was continued to be used as an important literary, academic and religious language on the island and surrounding mainland areas.
==Phonology==
===Consonants===
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="graytable lightgraybg" style="width: 700px; text-align:center;"
! colspan="11"|Consonants
|-
! colspan="2" |
!  |Bilabial
!  |Labio-dental
!  |Dental
!  |Alveolar
!  |Post-alveolar
!  |Palatal
!  |Dorsal
!  |Radical
!  |Glottal
|-
! colspan="2" style="" |Nasal
| '''m''' /m/
|
| '''n''' /n/
|
|
|
| '''ŋ''' /ŋ/
|
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |Plosive
! |<small>voiceless</small>
| '''p''' /p/
|
|
| '''t''' /t/
|
|
| '''k''' /k/
|rowspan=4| '''ħ'''<br/> /ħ~ʜ~ʢ~ʡ/
| (ʔ)
|-
! |<small>voiced</small>
| '''b''' /b/
|
|
| '''d''' /d/
|
|
| '''g''' /g/
|
|-
! rowspan="2" style="" |Fricative
! |<small>voiceless</small>
| '''f''' /ɸ/
|
| '''th''' /θ/
| '''s''' /s/
| '''š''' /ʃ/
|
| '''ch''' /x/
|rowspan="2" | '''h''' /h~ɦ/
|-
! |<small>voiced</small>
|
| '''v''' /v/
|
| '''z''' /z/
| '''ž''' /ʒ/
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |Affricate
|
|
|
|
| '''ŧ''' /tʃ/
|
|
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |Approximant
|
| ([ʋ])
|
|
|
| '''ı''' /j/
|
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |Trill
|
|
|
| '''r''' /r/
|
|
|
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |Lateral app.
|
|
|
| '''l''' /l/
|
| '''ļ''' /ʎ/
|
|
|
|}
[v] is in free variation with [ʋ]. [ʔ] may occur only in morpheme boundaries.
Geminate /x/ and /θ/ are represented respectively by ''cch'' and ''tth'' in the Romanization.
====Conditioned allophony====
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="graytable lightgraybg" style="width: 570px; text-align:center;"
! style="width: 120px; "|Phoneme
! style="width: 120px; " |Allophone
! style="width: 120px; " |Condition(s)
|-
| rowspan="2"| /ħ/
| [ħ~ʜ]
| #_, C[+voiceless]_
|-
| [ʡ~ʢ]
| V_V, C[+voiced]_
|-
| /h/
| [ɦ]
| V_V, C[+voiced]_
|-
| C[+obstruent, ±voiced]
| C[+obstruent, ∓voiced]
| _C[+obstruent, -guttural, ∓voiced]
|}
===Vowels===
Themsaran has six vowels, short and long. Short vowels have one mora (except for epenthetic ''e'' which has zero morae), and long vowels have two morae. Short vowels in open syllables were pronounced approximately 1.5 times as long as short vowels in closed syllables; long vowels in closed syllables, 2.5 times as long; open long vowels, thrice as long.
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="graytable lightgraybg" style="width: 540px; text-align:center;"
! style="width: 90px; "|
! style="width: 90px; " |Front
! style="width: 90px; " |Central
! style="width: 90px; " |Back
|-
! style="" |Close
| '''i''' /i/ '''ī''' /iː/
| '''y''' /ʉ̜/ '''ȳ''' /ʉ̜ː/
| '''u''' /u/ '''ū''' /uː/
|-
! style="" |Mid
| '''e''' /e̞/ '''ē''' /e̞ː/
|
| '''o''' /o̞/ '''ō''' /o̞ː/
|-
! style="" |Open
|
| '''a''' /a/ '''ā''' /aː/
|
|}
'''y ȳ''' is a close central half-rounded vowel.
The following are the diphthongs, all falling: '''ai au ei ie ua''' /ai au ei ie~ia uo~ua/. All diphthongs are bimoraic.
===Pitch accent===
Pitch accent, or tone, is phonemic in Themsaran. The following is the notation for tones:
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="graytable lightgraybg" style="width: 540px; text-align:center;"
! style="width: 90px; "|
! style="width: 90px; " |Short
! style="width: 90px; " |Long
! style="width: 90px; " |Diphthong
|-
! style="" |Unmarked
| '''a'''
| '''ā'''
| '''ai'''
|-
! style="" |High
| '''á'''
| '''a̋'''
| '''ái'''
|-
! style="" |Low
| '''à'''
| '''ȁ'''
| '''ài'''
|-
! style="" |Falling
| -
| '''â'''
| '''âi'''
|-
! style="" |Rising
| -
| '''ǎ'''
| '''ǎi'''
|}
The pitch accent of a word (of more than one mora) consists of two components: the lexical tone, and the position of the downstep (the latter is confined to appear after the 3rd-to-last mora). A low-tone word starts low and has the highest pitch at the tonic mora, which is immediately before the downstep, whereafter the pitch drops sharply. A high-tone word is consistently high until the downstep in theory, but it was probably natural for the pitch to dip to some extent approaching the downstep in longer words.
The following are the rules governing the marking Themsaran pitch accent:
#High lexical tone is marked in the initial syllable; low tone is not marked, unless necessitated by rule 2.
#The tonic syllable is always marked:
##If the downstep occurs after a long syllable (syllable with a long vowel or diphthong), the syllable is rising in a low-tone word, and high in a high-tone word. 
##If the downstep occurs between the two morae of a long syllable, the syllable has falling tone.
#If the first syllable is tonic, the second syllable is marked as low.
If the downstep occurred word-finally, the first syllable of a following high tone word would have slightly lower pitch. In [[w:Pausa|pausa]], a word final high short syllable is realized as a falling, short vowel.
Clitics, unmarked, phonologically behave as parts of the following word and inherit the tone of the following word. Preceding a word with high lexical tone, the clitic is marked as high.
===Stress===
The first syllable is very lightly stressed, and there are no secondary stress phenomena.
===Phonotactics===
The maximal syllable structure is CCıVCC, where V is any vowel or diphthong, and the second consonant in the complex coda must be an obstruent. /ħ/ and /h/ are disallowed to occur in coda. Up to CCCı medial clusters are permitted. Vowel hiatus is prohibited, as in Balto-Slavic and Semitic languages.
===Phonological rules===
*coronal obstruent + sibilant<sub>i</sub> > sibilant<sub>i</sub>sibilant<sub>i</sub>
*''z'' > ''r'' / V_C[-semivowel, +voiced, ~{/z/}]
==Orthography==
[[Image:Themsaran_tone_diacritics.png|right|thumb|Tone diacritics in Themsaran script, written under or over a vowel letter.|240px]]
==Morphology==
===Nouns===
Nouns and adjectives have a rich morphology, albeit less ornate than verbs. They inflect for number, definiteness and possessedness, but not for case. Nouns have two genders, masculine and feminine. In third-person possessed forms, Themsaran makes a distinction, realized tonally, between the ''absolute'' possessed form, which indicates a noun possessed by a pronoun, and the ''conjunct'' possessed form, used to indicate a possessive relationship between two nouns and agreeing with the gender of the possessor.
Definite forms are used as the vocative. Definiteness is used more often than in English, but less than in continental European languages. Names of deities or deifications are primarily indefinite, but take definite agreement.
Proper names are indeclinable, i.e. they are always definite, and cannot be possessed.
====First declension====
The first declension consists primarily of masculine nouns. Nouns ending in a consonant may contain an epenthetic ''e'' to break up a forbidden consonant clusters, particularly those ending in resonants. The ''ħ''-stem nouns always end in ''-ā'', and this mutates to ''-aħ-'' before a ending beginning with a vowel, and exhibits the form ''-aC-'' before an ending beginning with any consonant. The ''h''-stems have a long vowel ending by default, which shortens in front of a consonant ending, along with gemination of any fricative-onset endings. The ı-stem nouns, ending in ''-i'', display the ''-i'' before a possessive suffix beginning with a consonant, and a ''-ı'' before one beginning with a vowel. Geminate stems end in a long vowel plus a final consonant in their base forms, which changes to a short vowel + geminate.
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width: 660px; text-align: center;"
|-
! colspan="9"| '''First declension'''
|-
! rowspan="2"|
! colspan="4" scope="col"|Singular
! colspan="4" scope="col"|Plural
|-
!colspan="2" scope="col"|Indefinite
!colspan="2" scope="col"|Definite
!colspan="2" scope="col"|Indefinite
!colspan="2" scope="col"|Definite
|-
!scope="row"|Unpossessed
|colspan="2"|-Ø
|colspan="2"|''-ē''
|colspan="2"|''-ach''
|colspan="2"|''-ūt''
|-
!scope="row"|1sg
|colspan="2"|''-ken''
|colspan="2"|''-n''
|colspan="2"|''-ūken''
|colspan="2"|''-āst''
|-
!scope="row"|2sg.m
|colspan="2"|''-gze''
|colspan="2"|''-ze''
|colspan="2"|''-ūgze''
|colspan="2"|''-ūgit''
|-
!scope="row"|2sg.f
|colspan="2"|''-kvi''
|colspan="2"|''-vi''
|colspan="2"|''-ūkvi''
|colspan="2"|''-ūgis''
|-
!scope="row"|3sg.m
|colspan="2"|''-ku''
|colspan="2"|''-u''
|colspan="2"|''-ūku''
|colspan="2"|''-ū''
|-
!scope="row"|3sg.f
|colspan="2"|''-ki''
|colspan="2"|''-i''
|colspan="2"|''-ūki''
|colspan="2"|''-ī''
|-
!scope="row"|4sg.m
|colspan="2"|''-kŧu''
|colspan="2"|''-ŧu''
|colspan="2"|''-ūkŧu''
|colspan="2"|''-ŧū''
|-
!scope="row"|4sg.f
|colspan="2"|''-kŧi''
|colspan="2"|''-ŧi''
|colspan="2"|''-ūkŧi''
|colspan="2"|''-ŧī''
|-
!scope="row"|inv
|colspan="2"|''-kth''
|colspan="2"|''-th''
|colspan="2"|''-ūkth''
|colspan="2"|''-thū''
|-
!scope="row"|1ex
|colspan="2"|''-kam''
|colspan="2"|''-am''
|colspan="2"|''-ūkam''
|colspan="2"|''-ūche''
|-
!scope="row"|1in
|colspan="2"|''-kent''
|colspan="2"|''-ent''
|colspan="2"|''-ūkent''
|colspan="2"|''-ūša''
|-
!scope="row"|2pl.m
|colspan="2"|''-klys''
|colspan="2"|''-lys''
|colspan="2"|''-ūkys''
|colspan="2"|''-ūsra''
|-
!scope="row"|2pl.f
|colspan="2"|''-kyth''
|colspan="2"|''-yth''
|colspan="2"|''-ūkyth''
|colspan="2"|''-ūsre''
|-
!scope="row"|3pl.m
|colspan="2"|''-kech''
|colspan="2"|''-eich''
|colspan="2"|''-ūkech''
|colspan="2"|''-ūch''
|-
!scope="row"|3pl.f
|colspan="2"|''-ker''
|colspan="2"|''-ier''
|colspan="2"|''-ūker''
|colspan="2"|''-ūr''
|-
!scope="row"|4pl.m
|colspan="2"|''-kŧech''
|colspan="2"|''-ŧeich''
|colspan="2"|''-ūkŧu''
|colspan="2"|''-ŧūch''
|-
!scope="row"|4pl.f
|colspan="2"|''-kŧer''
|colspan="2"|''-ŧier''
|colspan="2"|''-ūkŧi''
|colspan="2"|''-ŧūr''
|}
====Second declension====
The second declension consists primarily of feminine nouns. The reflexes of the old nominative endings of this declension, ''-a'' and ''-ān'', survive in proper names, in addition to in predicative adjectives.
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width: 660px; text-align: center;"
|-
! colspan="9"| '''Second declension'''
|-
! rowspan="2"|
! colspan="4" scope="col"|Singular
! colspan="4" scope="col"|Plural
|-
!colspan="2" scope="col"|Indefinite
!colspan="2" scope="col"|Definite
!colspan="2" scope="col"|Indefinite
!colspan="2" scope="col"|Definite
|-
!scope="row"|Unpossessed
|colspan="2"|''-e''
|colspan="2"|''-ā''
|colspan="2"|''-ir''
|colspan="2"|''-enā''
|-
!scope="row"|1sg
|colspan="2"|''-aken''
|colspan="2"|''-an''
|colspan="2"|''-āŋkan''
|colspan="2"|''-aist''
|-
!scope="row"|2sg.m
|colspan="2"|''-agze''
|colspan="2"|''-za''
|colspan="2"|''-āŋze''
|colspan="2"|''-aŋgit''
|-
!scope="row"|2sg.f
|colspan="2"|''-akve''
|colspan="2"|''-va''
|colspan="2"|''-āŋve''
|colspan="2"|''-aŋgis''
|-
!scope="row"|3sg.m
|colspan="2"|''-aku''
|colspan="2"|''-au''
|colspan="2"|''-āŋku''
|colspan="2"|''-anū''
|-
!scope="row"|3sg.f
|colspan="2"|''-aki''
|colspan="2"|''-ai''
|colspan="2"|''-āŋki''
|colspan="2"|''-anī''
|-
!scope="row"|4sg.m
|colspan="2"|''-akŧu''
|colspan="2"|''-ath''
|colspan="2"|''-āŋŧu''
|colspan="2"|''-anŧu''
|-
!scope="row"|4sg.f
|colspan="2"|''-akŧi''
|colspan="2"|''-eth''
|colspan="2"|''-āŋŧi''
|colspan="2"|''-anŧi''
|-
!scope="row"|inv
|colspan="2"|''-akth''
|colspan="2"|''-th''
|colspan="2"|''-āŋth''
|colspan="2"|''-thū''
|-
!scope="row"|1ex
|colspan="2"|''-akam''
|colspan="2"|''-ām''
|colspan="2"|''-āŋkam''
|colspan="2"|''-aŋche''
|-
!scope="row"|1in
|colspan="2"|''-akent''
|colspan="2"|''-ant''
|colspan="2"|''-āŋkent''
|colspan="2"|''-anša''
|-
!scope="row"|2pl.m
|colspan="2"|''-akys''
|colspan="2"|''-ais''
|colspan="2"|''-āŋkys''
|colspan="2"|''-ansra''
|-
!scope="row"|2pl.f
|colspan="2"|''-akyth''
|colspan="2"|''-aith''
|colspan="2"|''-āŋkyth''
|colspan="2"|''-ansre''
|-
!scope="row"|3pl.m
|colspan="2"|''-akech''
|colspan="2"|''-āch''
|colspan="2"|''-āmmech''
|colspan="2"|''-anech''
|-
!scope="row"|3pl.f
|colspan="2"|''-aker''
|colspan="2"|''-air''
|colspan="2"|''-āŋker''
|colspan="2"|''-aner''
|-
!scope="row"|4pl.m
|colspan="2"|''-akŧech''
|colspan="2"|''-ŧach''
|colspan="2"|''-āŋŧech''
|colspan="2"|''-anŧech''
|-
!scope="row"|4pl.f
|colspan="2"|''-akŧer''
|colspan="2"|''-ŧair''
|colspan="2"|''-āŋŧer''
|colspan="2"|''-anŧer''
|}
====Tonal patterns of nominals====
Every noun falls under one of four tonal paradigms.
#''kanǔar'' ('sitting'): The most common paradigm, the downstep remains stationary, except as required by downstep rules or in the presence of the downstep-attracting absolute possession suffixes.
#''šenŧǐel'' ('shunning/evading'): The downstep is never on the suffix.
#''the̋nák'' ('standing'): Every suffix, except for conjunct possessive suffixes, bear the downstep.
#''gánħāŋém'' ('skipping/tumbling'): The downstep is one mora before the boundary of the suffix in the base form, and moves to the desinence upon inflection by a definite suffix.
====Irregular nouns====
====Fossilized case marking====
A descendant of a language with developed noun and adjective cases, Themsaran preserves vestigial case marking. The nominal and adjectival endings are themselves diachronically derived from case markers in the ancestral Proto-Talsmic language:
=====Irregular definiteness=====
The definite unpossessed inflection is a generalization from the accusative case, which marked the definite direct object in addition to adverbial uses, certain oblique objects and time expressions. On the other hand, the indefinite base endings diachronically stem from the genitive case (from its partitive meaning and frequency in prepositional phrases); the redicative adjective endings as well as most forms where possessive suffixes are attached, come from the nominative. As such definiteness is required in objects of a small number of prepositions, and some time expressions (e.g. ''nǐežȁm''/''minâm''/''krúamâm'' (< *''nējĵȁ-mī'' etc., instead of the expected ''*nǐežètem'' < **''nējĵet-mī'') "today"/"tonight"/"tomorrow", ''nǐežȁŧ'' ("that day"), ''krúamâ/ra̋zȁ/ħíŋšȁ/minâ'' "in the morning/at daytime/at dusk/at night") and adverbial expressions.
=====Fossilized oblique cases=====
The frozen oblique cases (ablative, instrumental/locative and allative) are largely found in two lexical classes: adverbs and prepositions.
Ablatives, found in causal expressions, end in ''-ēn'', ''-ān'', and ''-īn'' for the first, second and third declensions respectively; the instrumental/locative ends in ''-īl'' (1) or ''-ai'' (2); and the allative, often found in purpose expressions, ends in ''-šŧ''.
===Adjectives===
Attributive adjectives agree in number, definiteness, gender and possessedness with their heads. Adjectival declension disagrees with nouns in that absolute possessive form of adjectives modifies the conjunct possessive of nouns. Predicate adjectives are declined differently. Adjectives also take degree inflection (positive, "less/least", "more/most", elative, "X enough", "too X"). Adjectives exhibit tonal ablaut like those of nouns.
====Declension====
Adjectives are either declined in 1st declension in the masculine and the 2nd for feminine, or the 3rd declension for masculine and 2nd for feminine with an extra suffix ''-m-'' added between the stem and the ending.
=====Predicate adjectives=====
{| class="graytable lightgraybg " style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="3"|Predicate adjectives
|-
!|
!|Singular
!|Plural
|-
!|Masculine
|''-e''
|''-ū''
|-
!|Feminine
|''-a''
|''-ān''
|}
====Degree====
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
! colspan="2"| '''Degree affixes'''
|-
! width="110px"|comparative
| width="190px"|''-ên, -enn-'' (1/2, ''g'')
|-
!|elative
|''-rŷn'' (''š'')
|-
!|negative comparative
|''-ôm'' (''g'')
|-
!|excessive
|''-thál'' (''k'')
|-
!|suffective
|''-érs'' (''k'')
|-
!|defective
|''-őf'' (''k'')
|-
|}
Adjectives with degree inflections may be nominalized (e.g. ''ħēdāthry̌nīd'' "supreme strength" < ''ħēdāthrŷn'' "the very strongest").
====Adverb formation====
The adverbial suffix is ''-ar'', and it can mean "[adjective]ly", or "like a [noun]" (latter meaning is less productive).
===Pronouns===
====Personal====
The independent personal pronouns are used in equational sentences, and for emphasis of what is already marked on the heads, whether the marking is about the subject, direct object, or oblique.
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="3"| '''Independent personal pronouns'''
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 120px; "|Singular
!style="width: 120px; "|Plural
|-
!|1.ex
|rowspan="2"|''na̋''
|''châm''
|-
!|1.in
|''táŋên''
|-
!|2.m
|''zéi''
|''slâs''
|-
!|2.f
|''véi''
|''srâth''
|-
!|3.m
|''žá''
|''žû''
|-
!|3.f
|''žî''
|''žân''
|-
!|4.m
|''ŧá''
|''ŧû''
|-
!|4.f
|''ŧî''
|''ŧân''
|}
Adding the ''ħe-'' (''ħè-'') prefix creates intensified pronouns.
====Demonstrative====
The demonstratives have identical endings to personal pronouns in feminine singular and the plural. The adnominal demonstratives are ''mé'' (near speaker), ''ħé'' (near hearer), and ''ŧá'' (distal; identical to 4th person pronoun), and the pronominal demonstratives are ''ím(é)'', ''íž(á)'', and ''íŧ(á)''.
When a demonstrative modifies a noun phrase, the noun and adjective modified take the indefinite form if unpossessed, and the definite form if possessed.
====Reflexive====
The reflexive pronoun is ''ktên'', identical to the gender and number of the subject.
====Reciprocal====
The reciprocal pronoun, "each other", is ''nadnék''. It originated from an adverb that was later reanalyzed as a pronoun.
===Table of correlatives===
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width: 600px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="10"|Table of correlatives
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 240px; "|Interrogative
!style="width: 240px; "|Near speaker
!style="width: 240px; "|Near hearer
!style="width: 240px; "|Distal
!style="width: 240px; "|Existential
!style="width: 240px; "|Negational
!style="width: 240px; "|Elective
!style="width: 240px; "|Collective
!style="width: 240px; "|Distributive
|-
!|Adnominal
|rowspan=2|''ıé'' (who);<br/>''ıî'' (fem., rare);<br/>''ıán'' (what)
|''mé''
|''ħé''
|''ŧá''
|''naŋé''
|rowspan="2" colspan="2"|''ıaıért;'' ''la [...] ıé'', ''la [...] ıán''
|rowspan=2|''rôg'', ''mýs'' (adjective)
|
|-
!|Pronominal
|''ímé''
|''ížá''
|''íŧá''
|''mérkár'' (human); ''mérsát'' (nonhuman)
|
|-
!|Quality (what kind of)
|''ıért'' (declined like ''ímé'')
|''mért''
|''ħért''
|''ŧért''
|''naŋért''
|
|
|''rőkšȉl''
|
|-
!|Place
|''ıách''; ''émmâ''
|''mách*; dátè*''
|''ħách''
|''ŧách''
|''smárıán''
|
|
|
|
|-
!|Origin
|''gléıách;'' ''glêm;'' ''ıáche̋n''
|''glémách/máche̋n*; glédát/dáte̋n*''
|''gláħách;'' ''ħáche̋n''
|''gléŧách;'' ''ŧáche̋n''
|''glé smárıán''
|
|
|
|
|-
!|Destination
|''vóıách;'' ''ıáchàst''
|''vómách/máchàst*; vódát/dátàst*''
|''vóħách;'' ''ħáchàst''
|''vóŧách;'' ''ŧáchàst''
|''vó smárıán''
|
|
|
|
|-
!|Time
|''ıápsè'', ''ıémà''
|''gámà''
|colspan= '2'|''sónȅŧ''
|''mérrâk''
|
|
|''pidħîl''
|
|-
!|Quantity/Extent
|''ıávȅš''
|''mévȅš''
|''ħévȅš''
|''ŧévȅš''
|''-''
|''-''
|''-''
|''-''
|''-''
|-
!|Manner
|''ıêr;'' ''díeŋkúl''
|''mêr''
|''ħêr''
|''ŧêr''
|''gîemıêr''
|
|
|''rőkšȉl''
|
|-
!|Cause
|''ıěn''
|''měn''
|''ħěn''
|''ŧěn''
|''naŋên''
|
|
|
|
|-
!|Purpose
|''ıást'', ''ıergâi''
|''mést''
|''ħést''
|''ŧést''
|''naŋést''
|
|
|
|
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>The difference between the two words for 'here' is that of clusivity: ''mách'' means "where I am/we(exc) are or pointing" whereas ''dátè'' means "where we(inc) are".
In highly humble language (roughly equivalent to German ''Ihr''), the "near speaker" and "near hearer" demonstratives are used in epithets for 1st and 2nd person respectively in lieu of grammatical 1st or 2nd person. (e.g. ''klûdil mé'': "this humble subject", ''áchèr ħé/tīné ħî/slǐerè ħî'': Your Majesty/Highness; lit. "that king/hand/throne", ''dírmár/íra̋them ħé/a̋thmȉd ħî'', "that called one/sanctified one/holiness"; used to address a priest, ''mách/ħách'' generic humble language, used for locative obliques instead of 1st or 2nd person inflected prepositions)
===Verbs===
Verbs have elaborate but quite regular inflection. Finite verbs are marked for TAM, mirativity, voice (active and mediopassive), the subject's person, number, and gender and, if the direct object is definite, is obligatorily marked with the (usually direct) object's person, number, and gender in most TAMs, except in the imperative and the prohibitive. For example: ''Nés{{blue|ài}} zâr'' (kill-ACT.PRES.1SG cat.SG.INDEF 'I kill a cat') against ''Nes{{blue|āıú}} zárrȅ'' (kill-ACT.PRES.1SG{{blue|>3SG.M}} cat-SG.DEF 'I kill the cat'). The verb may agree with an indirect object (which is typically animate) instead of with the direct object. Object agreement is often omitted in poetry. Verbs also have several non-finite forms, used with various subordinating conjunctions and relative clauses.
{| class="graytable lightgraybg"
|+'''Themsaran finite verb template'''
!&minus;3!!&minus;2!!&minus;1!!0!!1!!2!!3!!/Downstep
|-
|Applicative prefix||Mood/Evidential/Mirative||Imperfective prefix||'''STEM'''||Supplementary aspect||Supplementary voice||Voice-TAM-Subject-Object||Voice-TAM-Subject-Object
|}
An example of a fully inflected verb:
{{gloss
|phrase = mizecheklēzittnévrīn
|IPA=/mìzexekleːzitːnevꜜriːn/
|morphemes = mi-RDPL-he-klēz-iħ-tn-évrīn
|gloss = APP.GOAL-SBJV-PAST.IPFV-mix-ICP-APP/PAST.IPFV.PSS.3SG.F>3PL.F
|translation = they supposedly were beginning to obtain it by mixing them}}
====Tense-Aspect-Mood====
=====Basic TAMs=====
The basic tenses, marked with a combination of tone, suffixes and prefixes, are:
*Imperative
*Present
*Past perfective
*Past imperfective
*Future perfective
*Future imperfective
*Jussive
======Imperative======
The imperative is used to issue positive, direct orders.
======Present======
The present is used for events that take/are taking place in the present time, or for gnomic statemnets.
======Past perfective======
The past perfective, preterite, or aorist is for events that were completed at some point in time in the past.
======Past imperfective======
The past imperfective indicates a background event or events that happened in the past frequently or over a period of time. Therefore it corresponds to past frequentative, habitual or progressive.
======Future perfective======
The future perfective denotes actions which will be completed at some point in the future.
======Future imperfective======
The future imperfective indicates actions which will take place in the future but whose aspectual meaning is similar to past imperfective. Future imperfective is also used as imperatives where the imperfectiveness of the action is emphasized ("[you shall] always/regularly strive!").
======Jussive======
The jussive bears a wide range of uses:
* optatives (wishes) (''Žuadisá áromizé'' "May your life be long!"), polite requests and hortatives (urging);
* prohibitions, with the prohibitive marker (''Hám skőtîr!'' "Don't walk!");
* imperatives in indirect speech, with the complementizer ''ne'' (''Kýlês ne stumî.'' "He ordered me to go back.");
* purpose clauses:
** with a relativizer (''ħéistê rin chenémth'' "the word to say"/"the word that should be said").
** after a conditional conjunction ''nit'', ''ar'', or ''gin'', or less commonly after ''vórêl ne'', it expresses "in order that...".
=====Supplementary aspects=====
======Inceptive======
The inceptive expresses the beginning of a imperfective period in time of the action, and is expressed by the suffix ''-iħ-'' placed after the stem.
======Cessative======
The cessative expresses the end of an imperfective period in time of the action, and is expressed by is the suffix ''-rš-''. It can also express perfect in certain circumstances.
=====Supplementary moods=====
The mirative, marking information, inference or realization new to the speaker, is marked by a prefix consisting of first consonant of stem + e + last consonant of stem. The subjunctive, used for doubtful statements and for hypothetical outcomes, is marked by a similar prefix, with said consonants in reverse order.
{{Gloss|phrase = {{blue|gél}}ga̋lis!|IPA=/gélgaːꜜlis/|morphemes = {{blue|RDPL}}-ga̋lìs |gloss = {{blue|MIR}}-sing-PRES.3SG.F  |translation = (Hey, look,) she's singing!}}
{{Gloss|phrase = {{blue|lég}}ga̋lis|IPA=/léggaːꜜlis/|morphemes = {{blue|RDPL}}-ga̋lìs |gloss = {{blue|SBJV}}-sing-PRES.3SG.F  |translation = She supposedly sings/She would sing}}
====Voice====
=====Basic voices=====
======Active======
The active voice is the default voice, used when the subject is the agent of the verb.
======Mediopassive======
The mediopassive marks the subject as a patient of the verb. Apart from passivity, mediopassives may have a derivational function; they may indicate reflexive or involuntary/spontaneous actions with active intransitives, (''skőtvìti machıâist'' "my legs walk by themselves, without my control") or change of state for statives. As such there are quite a few deponent verbs, verbs that are inherently mediopassive, and also mediopassive counterparts of active intransitive verbs.
=====Supplementary voices=====
======Causative======
The causative expresses causation or facilitation of the action. It is indicated by the suffix ''-nuh-'' after the masculine singular imperative, where the ''h'' assimilates to any fricative.
======Applicative======
The applicative suffix, placed after the masculine singular imperative, is ''-t(e)n-''. The applicative promotes an oblique object of a verb to the direct object position, for example "fight (a war)" > "fight (someone)" and downgrades the core object argument to an oblique argument. An optional applicative prefix may be used to qualify the relationship of the new object to the base verb (''vi-'' for instrument, ''ša-'' for location, ''lua-'' for comitation, ''mi-'' for goal or benefactive, and ''ran-'' for "about, concerning" and other miscellaneous objects). In the passive, the applicative finds much syntactic utility in constructing impersonal statements about an oblique object.
=====Non-finite forms=====
The non-finite forms are participles and two infinitives.
The participle, which is available for all verbal categories, is used to construct VOS clauses, where O and S are full noun phrases, or O is a noun and S is a third- or fourth-person pronoun. VOS sentences lend more emphasis to the predicate than the neutral VSO. The tense of a participle is the tense relative to the tense of the main clause.
The possessor of the first infinitive represents the verb's subject. It is used in reason clauses, time clauses, indirect speech (as the first infinitive copula ''váls'' + participle) whose truth is believed strongly by the speaker, and more rarely purpose clauses.
The possessor of the second infinitive represents the verb's object. It is used as a complement to certain verbs and in any other situation calling for a verb with no independent subject or TAM, and is used adverbially with prepositions.
====Conjugation====
The three conjugations of Themsaran verbs are demonstrated below respectively with the verbs ''mólî'' - 'let me thank', with no thematic vowel, ''nesâi'' - 'let me slay/kill (animate subject)' with a thematic vowel ''a'', ''takvêi'' - 'let me know', with the thematic vowel ''e'' of variable length. (The citation form is the 1st person jussive). The first conjugation subsumes:
*''ı''-stem verbs, whose ''ı-'' stays as ''ı-'' before a vowel-onset ending (except plain ''-e''), and assumes the form ''i'' otherwise;
*''ħ''-stem verbs, where the ''ħ'' assimilates into any consonant that begins an ending, and becomes ''-â'' in the 2nd person masculine singular imperative;
*''h''-stem verbs, for which only fricative-beginning endings are so geminated, and for other consonants, undergoes compensatory lengthening of the vowel preceding the ending, and ends in a bare long vowel with a falling tone in the 2sg.m imperative.
=====Active subject affixes=====
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible " style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="3" | '''Imperative'''
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 120px; "|Singular
!style="width: 120px; "|Plural
|-
!|1.in
|''-''
|''mólè'''ns'''!''<br/>''nés'''àns'''!''<br/>''takv'''êns'''!''
|-
!|2.m
|''mól!''<br/>''nés'''à'''!''<br/>''tákv'''è'''!''
|''mólè'''ls'''!''<br/>''nés'''àls'''!''<br/>''takv'''êls'''!''
|-
!|2.f
|''mól'''t'''!''<br/>''nés'''àt'''!''<br/>''takv'''êt'''!''
|''mólè'''rs'''!''<br/>''nés'''àrs'''!''<br/>''takv'''êrs'''!''
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible " style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="3" | '''Present'''
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 120px; "|Singular
!style="width: 120px; "|Plural
|-
!|1.ex
|''mól'''ȉ'''''<br/>''nés'''ài'''''<br/>''tákv'''èi'''''
|''mól'''mà'''''<br/>''nés'''àma'''''<br/>''takv'''êma'''''
|-
!|1.in
|''-''
|''mólè'''nse'''''<br/>''nés'''ànse'''''<br/>''takv'''ênse'''''
|-
!|2.m
|''mólè'''r'''''<br/>''nés'''àr'''''<br/>''tákv'''ȅr'''''
|''mólè'''lse'''''<br/>''nés'''àlse'''''<br/>''takv'''êlse'''''
|-
!|2.f
|''mól'''ȅ'''''<br/>''nés'''ȁ'''''<br/>''tákv'''ìe'''''
|''mólè'''rse'''''<br/>''nés'''àrse'''''<br/>''takv'''êrse'''''
|-
!|3.m
|''mól'''è'''''<br/>''nés'''à'''''<br/>''tákv'''ȅ'''''
|''mól'''vì'''''<br/>''nés'''àvi'''''<br/>''takv'''évi'''''
|-
!|3.f
|''mól'''ìs'''''<br/>''nés'''àis'''''<br/>''tákv'''ìes'''''
|''mól'''tì'''''<br/>''nés'''àti'''''<br/>''takv'''éti'''''
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible " style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="3" | '''Past perfective'''
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 120px; "|Singular
!style="width: 120px; "|Plural
|-
!|1.ex
|''mólé'''n'''''<br/>''nes'''án'''''<br/>''takv'''îen'''''
|''mól'''mì'''''<br/>''nés'''ámi'''''<br/>''takv'''émi'''''
|-
!|1.in
|''-''
|''mól'''tȁ'''''<br/>''nes'''átā'''''<br/>''takv'''étā'''''
|-
!|2.m
|''mólé'''r'''''<br/>''nes'''ár'''''<br/>''takv'''îer'''''
|''mól'''slé'''''<br/>''nes'''aslé'''''<br/>''takv'''ēslé'''''
|-
!|2.f
|''mól'''é'''''<br/>''nes'''a̋'''''<br/>''takv'''íe'''''
|rowspan=2|''mól'''sré'''''<br/>''nes'''asré'''''<br/>''takv'''ēsré'''''
|-
!|3.m
|''mól'''és'''''<br/>''nes'''ás'''''<br/>''takv'''ês'''''
|-
!|3.f
|''mól'''sàr'''''<br/>''nes'''ásar'''''<br/>''takv'''êsar'''''
|''mól'''stí'''''<br/>''nes'''astí'''''<br/>''takv'''ēstí'''''
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible " style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="3" | '''Past imperfective'''
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 120px; "|Singular
!style="width: 120px; "|Plural
|-
!|1.ex
|'''''hé'''mol'''êi'''''<br/>'''''he'''nes'''âi'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''îe'''''
|'''''hé'''mól'''mi'''''<br/>'''''he'''nes'''ámi'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''émi'''''
|-
!|1.in
|''-''
|'''''hé'''mól'''tā'''''<br/>'''''he'''nes'''átā'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''étā'''''
|-
!|2.m
|'''''hé'''molé'''r'''''<br/>'''''he'''nes'''ár'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''êr'''''
|'''''hé'''mol'''slé'''''<br/>'''''he'''nes'''aslé'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''ēslé'''''
|-
!|2.f
|'''''hé'''mol'''é'''''<br/>'''''he'''nes'''â'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''ê'''''
|rowspan=2|'''''hé'''mol'''sré'''''<br/>'''''he'''nes'''asré'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''ēsré'''''
|-
!|3.m
|'''''hé'''móle'''n'''''<br/>'''''he'''nes'''án'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''ên'''''
<!--pl sync w/ 2fs-->
|-
!|3.f
|'''''hé'''mól'''nar'''''<br/>'''''he'''nes'''ánar'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''énar'''''
|'''''hé'''mol'''stí'''''<br/>'''''he'''nes'''astí'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''ēstí'''''
|}
With initial vowels or words beginning with ''h'' the ''he'' prefix combines thus:
*''he+(h)a→hā''
*''he+(h)e→hē''
*''he+(h)i→hei''
*''he+(h)o→hō''
*''he+(h)u→hū''
*''he+(h)y→hȳ''
*he+long vowel/diphthong = h+long vowel/diphthong
Certain preceding obstruents will also combine with the h-:
*''b/p+h→f''
*''d/t+h→th''
*''ž/ŧ+h→š''
*''g/k+h→ch''
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible " style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="3" | '''Future perfective'''
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 120px; "|Singular
!style="width: 120px; "|Plural
|-
!|1.ex
|''mól'''chì'''''<br/>''nés'''àchì'''''<br/>''takv'''échì'''''
|''mól'''chỳm'''''<br/>''nés'''àchym'''''<br/>''takv'''êchym'''''
|-
!|1.in
|''-''
|''mól'''ènais'''''<br/>''nés'''ànais'''''<br/>''takv'''énais'''''
|-
!|2.m
|''mól'''chèr'''''<br/>''nes'''ácher'''''<br/>''takv'''écher'''''
|''mól'''èlais'''''<br/>''nés'''àlais'''''<br/>''takv'''élais'''''
|-
!|2.f
|''mól'''chȅ'''''<br/>''nes'''áchē'''''<br/>''takv'''échē'''''
|''mól'''èrais'''''<br/>''nés'''àrais'''''<br/>''takv'''érais'''''
|-
!|3.m
|''mól'''chè'''''<br/>''nés'''àche'''''<br/>''takv'''éche'''''
|''mól'''chȅr'''''<br/>''nes'''áchēr'''''<br/>''takv'''échēr'''''
|-
!|3.f
|''mól'''chàs'''''<br/>''nés'''àchas'''''<br/>''takv'''échas'''''
|''mól'''chȅt'''''<br/>''nes'''áchēt'''''<br/>''takv'''échēt'''''
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible " style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="3" |'''Future imperfective'''
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 120px; "|Singular
!style="width: 120px; "|Plural
|-
!|1.ex
|'''''ká'''mól'''in'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nés'''ıan'''''<br/>'''''ka'''tákv'''ıēn'''''
|'''''ká'''mól'''am'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nés'''ām'''''<br/>'''''ka'''tákv'''iem'''''
|-
!|1.in
|''-''
|'''''ká'''mól'''it'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nés'''ait'''''<br/>'''''ka'''tákv'''iet'''''
|-
!|2.m
|'''''ká'''mól'''ir'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nés'''ıar'''''<br/>'''''ka'''tákv'''ıēr'''''
|'''''ká'''mól'''elais'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nés'''alais'''''<br/>'''''ka'''takv'''élais'''''
|-
!|2.f
|'''''ká'''mól'''ī'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nés'''ā'''''<br/>'''''ka'''tákv'''ie'''''
|'''''ká'''mól'''erais'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nés'''arais'''''<br/>'''''ka'''takv'''érais'''''
|-
!|3.m
|'''''ká'''mól'''i'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nés'''ıa'''''<br/>'''''ka'''tákv'''ıe'''''
|'''''ká'''mól'''vi'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nés'''avi'''''<br/>'''''ka'''takv'''évi'''''
|-
!|3.f
|'''''ká'''mól'''is'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nés'''ais'''''<br/>'''''ka'''tákv'''ies'''''
|'''''ká'''mól'''ti'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nés'''ati'''''<br/>'''''ka'''takv'''éti'''''
|}
The ''ka-'' future imperfective prefix is combined the following way:
*''ka-''+''(h)a''→''kā-''
*''ka-''+''(h)e''→''kai-''
*''ka-''+''(h)i''→''kai-''
*''ka-''+''(h)o''→''kā-''
*''ka-''+''(h)u''→''kau-''
*''ka-''+''(h)y''→''kau-''
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible " style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="3" | '''Jussive'''
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 120px; "|Singular
!style="width: 120px; "|Plural
|-
!|1.ex
|''mól'''î'''''<br/>''nes'''âi'''''<br/>''takv'''êi'''''
|''mól'''émit'''''<br/>''nes'''ámit'''''<br/>''takv'''êmit'''''
|-
!|1.in
|''-''
|''mól'''édan'''''<br/>''nes'''ádan'''''<br/>''takv'''ědan'''''
|-
!|2.m
|''mól'''îr'''''<br/>''nes'''âir'''''<br/>''takv'''êir'''''
|''mól'''èlt'''''<br/>''nés'''àlt'''''<br/>''takv'''êlt'''''
|-
!|2.f
|''mól'''ît'''''<br/>''nes'''âit'''''<br/>''takv'''êit'''''
|''mól'''èrt'''''<br/>''nés'''àrt'''''<br/>''takv'''êrt'''''
|-
!|3.m
|''mól'''ìm'''''<br/>''nes'''àim'''''<br/>''tákv'''èim'''''
|''mól'''ivá'''''<br/>''nes'''avá'''''<br/>''takv'''evá'''''
|-
!|3.f
|''mól'''isá'''''<br/>''nes'''asá'''''<br/>''takv'''esá'''''
|''mól'''itá'''''<br/>''nes'''atá'''''<br/>''takv'''etá'''''
|}
=====Non-finite forms of the active=====
The active participle is formed by infixing ⟨''en/an/ēn''⟩ (respectively for ''-î/-âi/-êi'' conjugations) before the nucleus of the first syllable of the stem of the third person masculine form and removing any final vowels.
The first infinitive is formed by suffixing ''-s'' to the 2nd person masculine singular imperative.
The second infinitive is formed by ''-m'' to the 2nd person masculine singular imperative.
=====Mediopassive subject affixes=====
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible " style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="3" |'''Imperative'''
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 120px; "|Singular
!style="width: 120px; "|Plural
|-
!|1.in
|''-''
|''mól'''vàns'''!''<br/>''nes'''ávans'''!''<br/>''takv'''évans'''!''
|-
!|2.m
|''mól'''vàr'''!''<br/>''nes'''ávar'''!''<br/>''takv'''évar'''!''
|''mól'''vàls'''!''<br/>''nes'''ávals'''!''<br/>''takv'''évals'''!''
|-
!|2.f
|''mól'''vȁ'''!''<br/>''nes'''ávā'''!''<br/>''takv'''évā'''!''
|''mól'''vàrs'''!''<br/>''nes'''ávars'''!''<br/>''takv'''évars'''!''
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible " style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="3" |'''Present'''
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 120px; "|Singular
!style="width: 120px; "|Plural
|-
!|1.ex
||''mól'''ȉv'''''<br/>''nés'''ȁv'''''<br/>''tákv'''èiv'''''
|''mól'''chỳs'''''<br/>''nés'''àchỳs'''''<br/>''takv'''êchỳs'''''
|-
!|1.in
|''-''
|''mól'''nìv'''''<br/>''nes'''ániv'''''<br/>''tak'''éniv'''''
|-
!|2.m
|rowspan="2"|''mólè'''rem'''''<br/>''nés'''àrem'''''<br/>''takv'''êrem'''''
|''mól'''lìv'''''<br/>''nes'''áliv'''''<br/>''takv'''éliv'''''
|-
!|2.f
|''mól'''rìv'''''<br/>''nes'''áriv'''''<br/>''takv'''ériv'''''
|-
!|3.m
|''mól'''èv'''''<br/>''nés'''àv'''''<br/>''tákv'''ȅv'''''
|''mól'''vìni'''''<br/>''nes'''ávini'''''<br/>''takv'''évini'''''
|-
!|3.f
|''mól'''vèr'''''<br/>''nés'''àver'''''<br/>''takv'''éver'''''
|''mól'''vìti'''''<br/>''nes'''áviti'''''<br/>''takv'''éviti'''''
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible " style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="3" |'''Past perfective'''
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 120px; "|Singular
!style="width: 120px; "|Plural
|-
!|1.ex
|''mól'''dév'''''<br/>''nes'''adév'''''<br/>''takv'''ēdév'''''
|''mól'''dâm'''''<br/>''nes'''adâm'''''<br/>''takv'''ēdâm'''''
|-
!|1.in
|''-''
|''mól'''tām'''''<br/>''nes'''átām'''''<br/>''takv'''étām'''''
|-
!|2.m
|rowspan="2"|''mól'''dém'''''<br/>''nes'''adém'''''<br/>''takv'''ēdém'''''
|''mól'''vaslé'''''<br/>''nes'''avaslé'''''<br/>''takv'''evaslé'''''
|-
!|2.f
|rowspan="2"|''mól'''vasré'''''<br/>''nes'''avasré'''''<br/>''takv'''evasré'''''
|-
!|3.m
|''mól'''vas'''''<br/>''nes'''ávas'''''<br/>''takv'''évas'''''
|-
!|3.f
|''mól'''vasar'''''<br/>''nes'''ávasar'''''<br/>''takv'''évasar'''''
|''mól'''vastí'''''<br/>''nes'''avastí'''''<br/>''takv'''evastí'''''
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible " style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="3" |'''Past imperfective'''
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 120px; "|Singular
!style="width: 120px; "|Plural
|-
!|1.ex
|'''''hé'''mol'''êiv'''''<br/>'''''he'''nes'''âiv'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''îev'''''
|'''''hé'''mol'''dâm'''''<br/>'''''he'''nes'''adâm'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''ēdâm'''''
|-
!|1.in
|''-''
|'''''hé'''mól'''tām'''''<br/>'''''he'''nes'''atām'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''étām'''''
|-
!|2.m
|rowspan="2"|'''''hé'''mól'''vem'''''<br/>'''''he'''nés'''avem'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''évem'''''
|'''''hé'''mól'''liv'''''<br/>'''''he'''nes'''áliv'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''éliv'''''
|-
!|2.f
|'''''hé'''mól'''riv'''''<br/>'''''he'''nes'''áriv'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''ériv'''''
|-
!|3.m
|'''''hé'''mól'''ev'''''<br/>'''''he'''nés'''av'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''êv'''''
|'''''hé'''mól'''vini'''''<br/>'''''he'''''nes'''ávini'''''<br/>'''''he'''''takv'''évini'''''
|-
!|3.f
|'''''hé'''mól'''ver'''''<br/>'''''he'''nés'''aver'''''<br/>'''''he'''takv'''éver'''''
|'''''hé'''mól'''viti'''''<br/>'''''he'''''nes'''áviti'''''<br/>'''''he'''''takv'''éviti'''''
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible " style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="3" |'''Future perfective'''
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 120px; "|Singular
!style="width: 120px; "|Plural
|-
!|1.ex
|''mól'''ínīv'''''<br/>''nes'''ainīv'''''<br/>''takv'''ienīv'''''
|''mól'''íŋchys'''''<br/>''nes'''áŋchys'''''<br/>''takv'''îeŋchys'''''
|-
!|1.in
|''-''
|''mól'''ínith'''''<br/>''nes'''âinith'''''<br/>''takv'''îenith'''''
|-
!|2.m
|rowspan="2"|''mól'''ínēm'''''<br/>''nes'''âinēm'''''<br/>''takv'''îenēm'''''
|''mól'''ílith'''''<br/>''nes'''âilith'''''<br/>''takv'''îelith'''''
|-
!|2.f
|''mól'''írith'''''<br/>''nes'''âirith'''''<br/>''takv'''îerith'''''
|-
!|3.m
|rowspan="2"|''mól'''ísū'''<br/>''nes'''ǎisū'''<br/>''takv'''ǐesū'''
|rowspan="2"|''mól'''ísħū'''<br/>''nes'''ǎisħū'''<br/>''takv'''ǐesħū'''
|-
!|3.f
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible " style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="3" |'''Future imperfective'''
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 120px; "|Singular
!style="width: 120px; "|Plural
|-
!|1.ex
|'''''ká'''mól'''īv'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nés'''aiv'''''<br/>'''''ka'''tákv'''eiv'''''
|'''''ká'''mol'''íŋchys'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nes'''áŋchys'''''<br/>'''''ka'''takv'''îeŋchys'''''
|-
!|1.in
|''-''
|'''''ká'''mól'''niv'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nes'''ániv'''''<br/>'''''ka'''takv'''éniv'''''
|-
!|2.m
|rowspan="2"|'''''ká'''móle'''rem'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nés'''arem'''''<br/>'''''ka'''takv'''êrem'''''
|'''''ká'''mól'''liv'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nes'''áliv'''''<br/>'''''ka'''takv'''éliv'''''
|-
!|2.f
|'''''ká'''mól'''riv'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nes'''áriv'''''<br/>'''''ka'''takv'''ériv'''''
|-
!|3.m
|rowspan="2"|'''''ká'''mol'''ísū'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nes'''âisū'''''<br/>'''''ka'''tákv'''îesū'''''
|rowspan="2"|'''''ká'''mol'''ísħū'''''<br/>'''''ka'''nés'''âisħū'''''<br/>'''''ka'''tákv'''îesħū'''''
|-
!|3.f
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible " style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="3" |'''Jussive'''
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 120px; "|Singular
!style="width: 120px; "|Plural
|-
!|1.ex
|''mól'''îv'''''<br/>''nes'''âiv'''''<br/>''takv'''êiv'''''
|''mól'''chŷ'''''<br/>''nes'''achŷ'''''<br/>''takv'''ēchŷ'''''
|-
!|1.in
|''-''
|''mól'''vàdan'''''<br/>''nes'''ávadan'''''<br/>''takv'''évadan'''''
|-
!|2.m
|rowspan="2"|''mól'''vém'''''<br/>''nes'''avém'''''<br/>''takv'''ēvém'''''
|''mól'''vàlt'''''<br/>''nes'''ávalt'''''<br/>''takv'''évalt'''''
|-
!|2.f
|''mól'''vàrt'''''<br/>''nes'''ávart'''''<br/>''takv'''évart'''''
|-
!|3.m
|rowspan="2"|''mól'''émth'''''<br/>''nes'''ámth'''''<br/>''takv'''êmth'''''
|rowspan="2"|''mól'''vaħá'''''<br/>''nes'''avaħá'''''<br/>''takv'''ēvaħá'''''
|-
!|3.f
|}
=====Non-finite forms of the passive=====
The static passive participle is formed through the infix ⟨''ir/air/eir''⟩ in the bare stem.
The dynamic passive participle is formed with the ⟨''(i)s''⟩ in the passive 3rd person masculine singular stem minus the final vowel.
====Object affixes====
:''Main article: [[Themsaran/Bipersonal affixes|Themsaran bipersonal affixes]]''
The object affixes combine at the end of the verb, sometimes in less predictable ways, to agree with the direct object.
{| class="graytable lightgraybg " style="width: 700px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="19" |'''Object affixes'''
|-
!|1sg
!|2sg.m
!|2sg.f
!|3sg.m.dir
!|3sg.f.dir
!|4sg.m
!|4sg.f
!|inv
!|1ex
!|1in
!|2pl.m
!|2pl.f
!|3pl.m.dir
!|3pl.f.dir
!|4pl.m
!|4pl.f
|-
|''-(e)n''
|''-ze''
|''-ve''
|''-(j)u''
|''-(j)i''
|''-ŧ(u)''
|''-ŧi''
|''-th''
|''-am''
|''-(e)nt''
|''-sŋa''
|''-sŋe''
|''-(e)ch'', ''-ū''
|''-(e)r'', ''-īn''
|''-ŧech'', ''-ŧū''
|''-ŧer'', ''-ŧīn''
|}
As a general rule the downstep shifts to the end when the objectless form has it on the stem; the downstep stays put when the objectless form has it on the ending.
===Prepositions===
Prepositions in Themsaran are inflected with pronominal enclitics. If the resulting combination is monosyllabic the syllable takes ´ or ˆ as the accent. If disyllabic (unless 1s, 3mp and 3fp) the second takes the ´ accent.
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width: 700px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="19" |'''Inflection of prepositions'''
|-
!|1sg
!|2sg.m
!|2sg.f
!|3sg.m
!|3sg.f
!|4sg.m
!|4sg.f
!|inv
!|1ex
!|1in
!|2pl.m
!|2pl.f
!|3pl.m
!|3pl.f
!|4pl.m
!|4pl.f
|-
|''-en''
|''-ze''
|''-vi''
|''-(j)u''
|''-(j)i''
|''-ŧu''
|''-ŧi''
|''-th''
|''-am''
|''-(e)nt''
|''-sra''
|''-sre''
|''-(e)ch''
|''-(e)r''
|''-ŧech''
|''-ŧer''
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width: 700px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="16" |'''Inflection of example preposition'''
|-
!|1sg
!|2sg.m
!|2sg.f
!|3sg.m
!|3sg.f
!|4sg.m
!|4sg.f
!|inv
!|1ex
!|1in
!|2pl.m
!|2pl.f
!|3pl.m
!|3pl.f
!|4pl.m
!|4pl.f
|-
|''aštén''
|''aštezé''
|''aštví''
|''aštú''
|''aští''
|''ašteŧú''
|''ašteŧí''
|''ášteth''
|''aštám''
|''aštént''
|''aštesrá''
|''aštesré''
|''aštéch''
|''aštér''
|''ašteŧéch''
|''ašteŧér''
|}
The following prepositions have completely regular inflection:
* ''ašt'' 'without, except' (negation of comitative)
* ''chaŋ'' (''! definite object'') 'concerning'
* ''det'' 'towards, until'
* ''dienem'' 'inside, amidst'
* ''dismar'', ''tŋisfîer'' 'instead of''
* ''éŋħȅn'' 'because of'
* ''glenem'' 'out of'
* ''had'' 'like'
* ''ħal'' 'in front of'
* ''lyr'' 'agent'
* ''mel'' 'agent' (interchangable with ''lyr'')
* ''oles'' 'until'
* ''pram'' 'unlike'
* ''rimên'' 'because of'
* ''sűnân'' 'despite'
* ''tor'' 'because of (implication)'
* ''trig'' 'around'
* ''ŧaz'' 'after'
* ''vórêl'' 'for, for sake of'
* ''zom'' 'between'
* ''žymai'' 'without' (negation of instrumental)
The following are inflections of irregular prepositions:
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed " style="width: 700px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="16" |'''Inflection of ''ā, āC'' (comitative)'''
|-
!|1sg
!|2sg.m
!|2sg.f
!|3sg.m
!|3sg.f
!|4sg.m
!|4sg.f
!|inv
!|1ex
!|1in
!|2pl.m
!|2pl.f
!|3pl.m
!|3pl.f
!|4pl.m
!|4pl.f
|-
|''āħán''
|''āzzé''
|''āvví''
|''āħá''
|''āħé''
|''āŧŧú''
|''āŧŧí''
|''âtthu''
|''âm''
|''ânt''
|''āsrá''
|''āsré''
|''āħách''
|''āħár''
|''āŧŧéch''
|''āŧŧér''
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width: 700px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="16" |'''Inflection of ''di, d''' 'in, at''''
|-
!|1sg
!|2sg.m
!|2sg.f
!|3sg.m
!|3sg.f
!|4sg.m
!|4sg.f
!|inv
!|1ex
!|1in
!|2pl.m
!|2pl.f
!|3pl.m
!|3pl.f
!|4pl.m
!|4pl.f
|-
|''dîen''
|''dîeze''
|''dîevi''
|''dîe''
|''dî''
|''dîeŧu''
|''dîeŧi''
|''dîeth''
|''dîem''
|''dîent''
|''dîesra''
|''dîesre''
|''dîech''
|''dîer''
|''dîeŧech''
|''dîeŧer''
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width: 700px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="16" |'''Inflection of ''vo'' 'to, for''''
|-
!|1sg
!|2sg.m
!|2sg.f
!|3sg.m
!|3sg.f
!|4sg.m
!|4sg.f
!|inv
!|1ex
!|1in
!|2pl.m
!|2pl.f
!|3pl.m
!|3pl.f
!|4pl.m
!|4pl.f
|-
|''vôjen''
|''vôzze''
|''vôvví''
|''vû''
|''vŷ''
|''vôŧu''
|''vôŧi''
|''vôth
|''vōdám''
|''vônt''
|''vōsrá''
|''vōsré''
|''vōıéch'', ''vôch''
|''vōıér'', ''vôr''
|''vošŧéch''
|''vošŧér''
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width: 700px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="16" |'''Inflection of ''nai'<nowiki></nowiki>'' 'with, by means of''''
|-
!|1sg
!|2sg.m
!|2sg.f
!|3sg.m
!|3sg.f
!|4sg.m
!|4sg.f
!|inv
!|1ex
!|1in
!|2pl.m
!|2pl.f
!|3pl.m
!|3pl.f
!|4pl.m
!|4pl.f
|-
|''nâin''
|''naizé''
|''naiví''
|''nāıú''
|''nāıí''
|''naiŧú''
|''naiŧí''
|''nâith''
|''nājám''
|''nâint''
|''naisrá''
|''naisré''
|''nâich''
|''nâir''
|''naiŧéch''
|''naiŧér''
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width: 700px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="16" |'''Inflection of ''la'' 'also; no matter... (with interrogatives)' '''
|-
!|1sg
!|2sg.m
!|2sg.f
!|3sg.m
!|3sg.f
!|4sg.m
!|4sg.f
!|inv
!|1ex
!|1in
!|2pl.m
!|2pl.f
!|3pl.m
!|3pl.f
!|4pl.m
!|4pl.f
|-
|''lâin''
|''laizé''
|''laiví''
|''laıú''
|''lâi''
|''laiŧú''
|''laiŧí''
|''lâith''
|''laıám''
|''lâint''
|''laisrá''
|''laisré''
|''lâich''
|''lâir''
|''laŧéch''
|''laŧér''
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width: 700px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="16" |'''Inflection of ''gle, gl'<nowiki></nowiki>'' 'from' (ablative, partitive, substance)'''
|-
!|1sg
!|2sg.m
!|2sg.f
!|3sg.m
!|3sg.f
!|4sg.m
!|4sg.f
!|inv
!|1ex
!|1in
!|2pl.m
!|2pl.f
!|3pl.m
!|3pl.f
!|4pl.m
!|4pl.f
|-
|''glên''
|''glēzé''
|''glēví''
|''glējú''
|''glî''
|''glēŧú''
|''glēŧí''
|''glêth''
|''glēıám''
|''glênt''
|''glēsrá''
|''glēsré''
|''glêch''
|''glêr''
|''glēŧéch''
|''glēŧér''
|}
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed " style="width: 700px; text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="16" |'''Inflection of ''pī'' (against)'''
|-
!|1sg
!|2sg.m
!|2sg.f
!|3sg.m
!|3sg.f
!|4sg.m
!|4sg.f
!|inv
!|1ex
!|1in
!|2pl.m
!|2pl.f
!|3pl.m
!|3pl.f
!|4pl.m
!|4pl.f
|-
|''pîn''
|''pīzé''
|''pīví''
|''pīıú''
|''pīıí''
|''pīŧú''
|''pīŧí''
|''pîth''
|''pîm''
|''pînt''
|''pīsrá''
|''pīsré''
|''pîch''
|''pîr''
|''pīŧéch''
|''pīŧér''
|}
===Numerals===
Themsaran employs a pure vigesimal numeral system. In transcriptions of Themsaran, if positional numerals are desired, the vigesimal positional numerals should be used.
{| class="graytable lightgraybg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=" text-align: center;"
|-
!colspan="8"|Themsaran numerals
|-
!style="width: 60px; "|
!style="width: 120px; "|''n''
!style="width: 120px; "|''n''th
!style="width: 120px; "|''n'' times
!style="width: 120px; "|''n'' each/at a time
!style="width: 120px; "|1/''n''
!style="width: 120px; "|''n'' days
!style="width: 120px; "|''n'' years
|-
|?
|''ıíes''
|''ıínáš''
|''ıístèr''
|''ıísslè''
|''ıissínde''
|''ıíníež''
|
|-
|1
|''kêm''
|''félàš''
|''ke̋mtèr''
|''kêmslè''
|''-''
|''ke̋míež''
|
|-
|2
|''títhâr''
|''ŷrnàš''
|''tístèr''
|''tístlè''
|''ra̋ħé''
|''títhiež''
|
|-
|3
|''nárgè''
|''palsáš''
|''nártèr''
|''nárslè''
|''nárgínde''
|''náríež''
|
|-
|4
|''mulé''
|''muláš''
|''múltèr''
|''mulslé''
|''mulínde''
|''mulǐež''
|
|-
|5
|''niļŧé''
|''niļŧáš''
|''níļŧèr''
|''niļļé''
|''niļŧínde''
|''nilŧǐež''
|
|-
|6
|''ftāmé''
|''ftāmáš''
|''ftǎmtèr''
|''ftāmslé''
|''ftāmínde''
|''ftāmǐež''
|
|-
|7
|''rūdé''
|''rūdáš''
|''rǔttèr''
|''rūsslé''
|''rūdínde''
|''rūdǐež''
|
|-
|8
|''lozedé''
|''lozedáš''
|''lóster''
|''lorlé''
|''lozínde''
|''lozǐež''
|
|-
|9
|''fárvé''
|''fárváš''
|''fártèr''
|''fárslé''
|''fárvínde''
|''fáríež''
|
|-
|10/A<sub>20</sub>
|''ħíttè''
|''ħíttàš''
|''ħíttèr''
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|''ŧaflé''
|''ŧafláš''
|''ŧáflèr''
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|''ŧaflínde''
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The numeral is a noun that takes the definiteness inflection on behalf of the noun phrase (as a corollary, with a demonstrative the numeral is "indefinite" as well), whilst the noun is in the form "unmarked" in definiteness (indefinite for unpossessed, definite for possessed). 'Two' has a special definite form, ''títhîe''.
{{gloss
|phrase = nárgè glűanàch
|IPA=/nárꜜge glúəꜜnax/
|morphemes = nárg-è glűan-àch
|gloss = three-INDEF mushroom-PL.INDEF
|translation=three mushrooms}}
{{gloss
|phrase = nárgȁ glűanàch
|IPA=/nárꜜgaː glúəꜜnax/
|morphemes = nárg-ȁ glűan-àch
|gloss = three-DEF mushroom-PL.INDEF
|translation=the three mushrooms}}
{{gloss
|phrase = nárgȁ glűanûgit
|IPA=/nárꜜgaː glúənuꜜugit/
|morphemes = nárg-ȁ glűan-ûgit
|gloss = three-DEF mushroom-2SG.M>PL.DEF
|translation=your three mushrooms}}
{{gloss
|phrase = nárgè glűanûgit mû
|IPA=/nárꜜge glúənuꜜugit muꜜu/
|morphemes = nárg-è glűan-ûgit mû
|gloss = three-INDEF mushroom-2SG.M>PL.DEF this.M.PL
|translation=these three mushrooms of yours}}
The distributive suffix can be appended to the "''n'' times" numeral to express "''n'' times each"; the ''-ter'' suffix then becomes ''-tr-'':
(''Li̋chatâju tínžèr mé névsreslé.'' "We (inclusive) wrote this sentence 20 times each.")
The numerals can be combined with possessive suffixes to denote "(the) ''n'' of us/you/them" ''mullaŧís'' "four of you", ''mullâis'' "the four of you".
==Syntax==
===Word order and fronting===
The default constituent order is (time-place)-verb-subject-pronominal oblique object-direct object-(place-time). Any constituent may be topicalized or focalized by being placed in front of the verb. The syntactic difference between topicalization and focalization is that a topicalized noun phrase is the absolute first constituent of a clause while focalized noun phrases have to follow pre-verbal adjuncts such as negation. New information adverbs such as ''la'' (also) tend to topicalize, and restrictive adverbs such as ''vid'' (only) tend to focus.
==="Emphasis"===
====Topicalization====
The clause begins with the topicalized noun phrase, then a 3rd or 4th person pronoun corresponding to the subject is used in the sentence. If the topic is the object of a finite verb, a 3rd or 4th person object suffix is used on the verb.
====Focalization====
Themsaran focusing fronts the whole noun phrase (prepositions and all), unlike topicalization in which the topic is appositional and is expressed with a prepositional pronoun in the clause. If the focus is the subject fronting with no pronoun is used. Focusing may alternatively employ a type of cleft construction, with fronting of the focused noun phrase, by using the inverse verbal or prepositional object corresponding to the role of the focus in the sentence. The cleft construction is the one used when the focus is the direct object.
===Noun phrases===
Numerals precede nouns; possessors follow their possessa (with poetic exceptions); demonstratives occur after attributive adjectives, which follow nouns. Inflected quantifiers (uninflected quantifiers, such as ''rôg'' "every/all", precede the numeral) come after the adjective by default, but precede the noun when a demonstrative is used and precede the numeral when a numeral is used. Within these boundaries there is a lot of leeway; an attributive adjective or a demonstrative can occupy any position between its head and the relative clause.
====Distributive possession====
To express the meaning of "our/your/their respective NP", the last noun of the NP is reduplicated in absolute possessed forms. The plural persons are decomposed as follows:
*1{{sc|ex.m}}: noun-1{{sc|sg}}›{{sc|sg}} noun-3{{sc|sg.m}}›{{sc|sg}} or noun-3{{sc|sg.m}}›{{sc|sg}} noun-1{{sc|sg}}›{{sc|sg}}
*1{{sc|ex.f}}: noun-1{{sc|sg}}›{{sc|sg}} noun-3{{sc|sg.f}}›{{sc|sg}} or noun-3{{sc|sg.f}}›{{sc|sg}} noun-1{{sc|sg}}›{{sc|sg}}
*1{{sc|in.m}}: noun-2{{sc|sg.m}}›{{sc|sg}} noun-1{{sc|sg}}›{{sc|sg}} or noun-1{{sc|sg}}›{{sc|sg}} noun-2{{sc|sg.m}}›{{sc|sg}}
*1{{sc|in.f}}: noun-2{{sc|sg.f}}›{{sc|sg}} noun-1{{sc|sg}}›{{sc|sg}} or noun-1{{sc|sg}}›{{sc|sg}} noun-2{{sc|sg.f}}›{{sc|sg}}
*2{{sc|pl.m}}: noun-2{{sc|sg.m}}›{{sc|sg}} noun-2{{sc|sg.m}}›{{sc|sg}}
*2{{sc|pl.f}}: noun-2{{sc|sg.f}}›{{sc|sg}} noun-2{{sc|sg.f}}›{{sc|sg}}
*3{{sc|pl.m}}: noun-3{{sc|sg.m}}›{{sc|sg}} noun-3{{sc|sg.m}}›{{sc|sg}}
*3{{sc|pl.f}}: noun-3{{sc|sg.f}}›{{sc|sg}} noun-3{{sc|sg.f}}›{{sc|sg}}
*4{{sc|pl.m}}: noun-4{{sc|sg.m}}›{{sc|sg}} noun-4{{sc|sg.m}}›{{sc|sg}}
*4{{sc|pl.f}}: noun-4{{sc|sg.f}}›{{sc|sg}} noun-4{{sc|sg.f}}›{{sc|sg}}
These exact forms are always used disregarding the finer aspects of gender composition in the group. Thus, for example, if the only male in a group speaks of "our (exclusive) respective villages", he will still say ''chmásán chmásâu'' "my village his village".
===Equational sentences===
The copula ''[[Themsaran/va̋kî|va̋kî]]'' is rarely used in the present indicative in full (not relative) clauses. Instead, an equational sentence begins with the subject, and a 3rd- or a 4th-person pronoun (cliticized and therefore toneless) agreeing with the subject may be used anywhere in the sentence, or omitted (as is often the case, as the predicate adjectives and the end of each noun phrase are quite transparent). The uncliticized pronoun is used when the subject is pronominal or when the copular pronoun is used at the end of a clause.
===Predicative possession===
"X has Y" is expressed with the construction "''[[Themsaran/gîe|gîe]]''  Y ''vo'' X", or "''gîe''-[pronoun affix for pronominal X] Y" if X is animate. If X is inanimate, the construction ''X ā Y'' ('X is with Y'), or ''X ašt Y'' ('X is without Y') is used.
===Coordinating conjunctions===
''at'': or
''ie'': and (also 'but, while, whereas' with topicalized clauses)
''íeláš'': however, nevertheless, moreover
''nesi'': but (rather)
''nu'': xor/nand
''seim'': but, yet, however
===Subordinating clauses===
Themsaran prefers sentences with one independent (tensed realis) clause, with infinitives, jussives or participles in subordinate clauses (except usually in complement clauses). Using a finite verb in a dependent clause instead of an infinitive or participle carries focus, on the verb or another constituent.
====Subordinating conjunctions====
''ach'': although
''ānne'': when (with finite verb)
''ar'': if (provisional)
''eir'': because, for
''gin'': if (metaphorical/counterfactual)
''isi'': unless
''ne'': that (complementizer)
''nit'':  if (gnomic)
''nitrôg/trôg'': that (restrictive)
''rin'': that, which (non-restrictive)
''surith'': which (sentential relativizer)
====Time clauses====
Time clauses are constructed with a preposition and the first infinitive with the possessor as subject.
:'''''āl lēvasén''' (lit. with my running)''
:''while I run/was running (imperfective)''
:'''''dí ta̋ŋrèsi ātmán''' (lit. at my mother's being-born)''
:''when my mother was born (perfective)''
:'''''ħal riesseví''''' (lit. before your coming)''
:''before you came/come''
====Relative clauses====
The participial relative clause is introduced with a participle. An active participle's possessor is the object and a passive participle's possessor is the agent. It is the default relative clause formation method.
The finite relative clause is introduced optionally with a relativizer ''rin'' (specific) or ''nitrôg/trôg'' (non-specific; etymologically "whenever"). When the head is omitted, the relativizer is mandatory. To modify a sentence with a relative clause the relativizer ''surith'' is used instead.
====Complement clauses====
Themsaran uses chiefly finite complement clauses, unlike for other types of subordinate clauses. Using a non-finite complement clause entails using the verb ''va̋kî'' with a participle. This expresses a strong conviction that the complement clause is true.
===Negation===
Finite negation is done with the pre-verbal clitic ''tir'', except in the future imperfective, where the particle ''vēt'' is used with the jussive.
The predicate negator is ''dâ(r)''.
Imperatives and jussives are negated by using the irrealis negation clitic ''ham'' with the jussive. ''Hám'' may be used as a standalone exclamation ("do not!"/"may it not happen!").
Infinitives are negated with ''tíessù''.
===Coreferentiality===
There are several situations where the strictly head-marking language tracks coreferentiality, or which agreeing noun a verb or pronoun taking a given agreement refers to.
====Inverse marking====
Themsaran has so-called "inverse" verbal affixes that force a particular, marked order of the sentence, rather like the Austronesian trigger system. This marker serves simultaneously to trigger a more focused meaning on the more fronted constituent.
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====Proximate/obviative affixes====
The 3rd person, or proximate, object marks foreground or central referents, usually the first one or the most animate/possessing one mentioned soon after it. while the 4th person, or obviative, object refers to background or peripheral referents. The third person and the fourth person combine as 3+4=3, and when parts of a proximate plural is taken out, the first noun phrase to be taken out is the new 3rd person.
{{gloss
|phrase = Hezūŋasré Kolnosimáttmē ie Ŋirchâ né ıégléch ħēdāthénne, mežî ramlēsré né žlómalkámth kanílsnuhu skőtálg zîm teizár vo nassams{{blue|ŧû}}.
|IPA=/hèzuːŋasreꜜ kòlnosimattꜜmeː ìəŋirxaꜜa néjeglexꜜ ħèːdaːθenꜜne mèʒiꜜi ràmleːsreꜜ néʒlomalkamθꜜ kànilꜜsnuhu skóːtalgꜜ zíꜜim teizarꜜ vònassamst͡ʃuꜜu/
|morphemes = he-zūŋ-asré Kolnosimáttm-ē ie Ŋirch-â ne=ıégléch ħēdāth-énn-e, mežî raml-ēsré ne=žlómalk-ámth k<an>íls-nuh-Ø-u skőtálg zîm teizár vo=nassams-{{blue|ŧû}}
|gloss = IPFV-dispute-IPFV.3/4PL.M North.Wind-DEF.SG and Sun-DEF.SG COMPZ=which.one powerful-COMP-PRED.M.SG, then agree-PFV.3/4PL.M COMPZ=win.see-PASS.JUSS.3SG take.off<ACT.PTCP>-CAUS-ACT.PRES-3/4SG.M>DEF.SG.M/CONJ traveller first successfully DAT=clothing-{{blue|4SG.M>DEF.PL}}
|translation=The North Wind and the Sun disputed as to which was the most powerful and agreed that he should be declared the victor who could first strip a way-faring man of his clothes.}}
Because the traveler (''skőtálg'') is an obviate referent, his clothes are referred to as ''nassams{{blue|ŧû}}'', with the fourth person possessor, not ''nassams{{blue|û}}'', which would be interpreted as "the North Wind's clothes".
====Comparison====
====="Than"=====
The comparative particle 'than' is ''rā''. Themsaran enables one to discriminate "He loved me more than she [loved me]" and "He loved me more than [he loved] her", by focusing the argument in the main clause that is compared. The comparative phrase is by default placed after the subject or verb, and the compared noun phrase is stated, or repeated with a pronoun.
{{gloss
|phrase = žá hārbenín slá ra̋ ŧî
|IPA=/ʒá hàːrbeninꜜ sláꜜ ráːt͡ʃíꜜiː/
|morphemes = žá he-arb-nin/ slá rā ŧî
|gloss = 3SG.M PAST.IPFV-teach/PAST.IPFV.3/4SG.M>1SG more.ADV than 4SG.F
|translation=He taught me more than she did.}}
{{gloss
|phrase = na̋ hārbeníth slá ra̋ ŧî
|IPA=/náː hàːrbeniθꜜ sláꜜ ráːt͡ʃiꜜiː/
|morphemes = na̋ he-arb-nith/ slá rā žî
|gloss = 1SG PAST.IPFV-teach/PAST.IPFV.3/4SG.M>INV.SG.M more.ADV than 4SG.F
|translation=He taught me more than he did her.}}
Note that the fronting does not automatically imply that the fronted noun phrase is compared, but simply that it is given the most focus. The compared argument is the closer argument to the comparative:
{{gloss
|phrase = na̋ hārbeníth žá slá ra̋ ŧî
|IPA=/náː hàːrbeniθꜜ ʒáꜜ sláꜜ ráːt͡ʃiꜜiː/
|morphemes = na̋ he-arb-nith/ žá slá rā ŧî
|gloss = 1SG PAST.IPFV-teach/PAST.IPFV.3/4SG.M>1SG 3SG.M more.ADV than 4SG.F
|translation=It is I whom he taught more than she did.}}
====="Surpass"=====
Themsaran also, more succinctly, allows comparison by incorporating the adjective into the verb ''fkínêi'' 'surpass'. Unsurprisingly this construction is rather common for predicative comparisons:
{{gloss
|phrase = Giemofkíneich arbalgâst.
|IPA=
|morphemes = giem(o)-fkin-eich arbâlg-āst
|gloss = intelligent-surpass-/1SG.PRES>3PL.M teacher.1SG>DEF.PL
|translation=I am smarter than my teachers.}}
====Indirect speech====
If the complement clause's subject corefers with the subject of the main clause, it is left unstated in the complement clause. Otherwise the third- or fourth-person pronoun is used as the subject as appropriate.
==="Impersonal" sentences===
Impersonal pronouns do not exist in Themsaran. The verb is put into the mediopassive (or mediopassive of causative or applicative, as appropriate) with the subject as patient/object, or no subject if there is no patient.
:'''''skőtèv nárgìež glé chmásán det kazrê'''''
:''one walks (lit. it is walked) for three days from my village to the coast''
===Modal constructions===
Themsaran is poor in true modal and auxiliary verbs; "adverbial" and "adjectival" modal constructions are more common. Deontic modalities tend to be expressed adjectivally, while situational and epistemic modalities tend to have adverbial expressions. All modal expressions come before the (negation-) lexical verb (e.g. ''Jêr méŧar ħlomaréch šyrfāmâst!'' "How dare you betray my brothers!", note that the verb is in the preterite).
====Modal adjectives====
*''lāmérse'': "it is sufficient to..."
*''ıalúne'': "advisable".
*''re̋dáme'': "necessary", used to express need to do something.
*''širŋúre'': "required/compulsory"; moral obligation, "ought to".
*''tírēné'': "permitted", used to express permissibility.
====Modal adverbs====
*''ŋídâ'': "ably", used to express ability to do something.
*''méŧár'': equivalent of "dare".
*''ļámȉl'': "possibly", used to express epistemic possibility.
*''tóssár'': "seemingly".
*''arzên'': "certainly", used to express speaker's certainty (English epistemic "must").
*''teizár'': "successfully".
====Modal verbs====
"To want" is ''sréŋî''. It is used (chiefly with an intransitive verb) in the first infinitive, always with a subject possessor (''Sréŋȉ mispasén d'insé'' "I want to travel in a city", lit. "I want my traveling in a city"), or with transitive verbs in the second infinitive (definite direct objects are marked).
===Periphrastic causatives===
==Derivational morphology==
===Affixal===
====Nouns and Adjectives====
*''-ákše'' (''f'', ''k''): [noun]-manship, proper way of [verb]ing/being [adjective]
*''-álg-'' (''k''): semantic agent of [verb]
*''-áŋ-'' (plural, ''k''): associative plural
*''-átte'' (''f'', ''k''): domain, place of [noun/adjective]
*''-âth'' (''š''): adjectival suffix
*''-ber'' (''m'', ''k''): resultative of [verb]
*''-d-/-de'': nominalizer (less productive)
*''-dr-'' (''k''): -ful
*''-ige'' (''f'' ''k''): nominalizer of [verb]
*''-in'' (''m'' ''g'', not very productive): semantic patient of (verb)
*''-índ-'' (''k''): diminutive
*''-īd'' (''f'', ''2'', ''k''): abstract noun
*''kī(v)-'': -less
*''-m-'' (''k''): originating from [noun/adjective]
*''-malé'' (''f'' ''th''): manner of [verb]ing
*''-met'' (''m'', ''g''): semantic patient
*''-ms'' (''m'', ''k''): instrument noun
*''-ŋ-'' (''k'') [noun]-like
*''-ne'' (''k''): action of [verb]
*''-noš-'' (''k''): capable of patienthood, [verb]-able
*''-őf-'' (''k''): weaker pejorative, "just some"
*''-or-'' (''š''): pejorative
*''-re'' (''f'', ''k'', less productive): patient/resultative
*''-rn-'' (''š''): capable of/good at agenthood, fit to be a [noun/adjective]
*''-se'' (''f'', ''k''): singulative
*''-tán'' (''f'', ''k'') "[noun] material"
*''tir-'': non-, un-
*''-ȳr'' (''m'', ''g''): place noun
*''-y̌že/y̋že'' (''f'', ''k''): state of being [verb], most often used for mental states
====Verbs====
*''-lî''/''-ālî''/''-ēlî'' dynamic from [adjective/stative verb]
*''-ystî'' or just ''-âi'': cause to be [adjective]
*''-trî'': intensive
*''-dm-'' iterative
*''-alkâi'': :see/depict as
*''-nach-'': [verb] to completion
*''-dħâi'': un-, dis- (intransitive)
*''-prî'': un-, dis- (transitive)
*''-(i/u)t-'' (with tone change): transitivizer (not productive)
===Compounding===
Noun-adjective compounding occurs by removing the ending of the noun (and inserting ''-o-'' for first declension, ''-e-'' for second declennsion, and ''-i-'' for third declension of the noun if phonotactically required). If the compound is a noun with a supplemental meaning by the adjective, the lexical tone is that of the noun; on the contrary, as an adjective with the meaning colored by the noun, the lexical tone is adopted from the adjective.
:'''''kólèn''' (1st decl., high tone)''' + simáttem''' (accent paradigm ''k'') '''= kólnosimáttmē'''''
:''wind + northern = the north wind''
Compounds headed by the final noun are largely 'kind of noun' compounds, whereas more coordinative compounds will be right-branching.
====Incorporation====
Nouns and adverbs can be incorporated into verbs as they can into adjectives. This is primarily a derivational, rather than grammatical, device.
:'''''ħe̋demplaħêıam'''''
:''strengthen us (flowery)''
==Sample texts==
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''Hebānnúvver gávthè mî ke̋mērâk.''/'''Bānnúvver gávthè mî.''
This language was made-to-attract-attention at-one-time./This language has been made-to-attract-attention.
''Éŋħȅn lāmennǐdīr chīrıīdái ie arvētnošīdái íe máugamalanî, miramlétnev bānnuvvní.''
Because-of the bestness of its fineness, its believability and its ways-of-using, its being-made-to-attract-attention was/[has been] agreed-upon/assented.
'''''Méisȁ 1'''''
'''Article 1'''
''Ta̋ŋrèvi rôg itávūt dǔanȕ íe státhe̋dū sŋéfȉl ħalgīdâch íe láugvīdâch.''
be.born.-{{sc|pres.3pl.m}} all human-{{sc|pl.def}} free.{{sc|pl.m.pred}} and same.in.quality.{{sc|pl.m.pred}} w.r.t. dignity-{{sc|3pl.m›def.sg}} and entitlement-{{sc|3pl.m›def.sg}}
All humans are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
''Tór pláħévnier ŧlâħe ie ftiļiny̋že vōıéch, širŋúre tolbasêich ān nadnék nái hélki šyrfǎmīd.''
as.implied.by bestow.{{sc|pass}}.{{sc|first.inf}}-{{sc|3pl.f/conj}} reason and conscience {{sc|dat}}.{{sc|3pl.m}}, compulsory.-{{sc|sg.m.pred}} behave.{{sc|first.inf-3pl.m›def}} {{sc|com}} one.another {{sc|ins}} spirit-{{sc|3sg.f›indef.sg/conj}} brotherhood.
They have been endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
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