Some topics you might expect to find in this grammar book don't actually require any special grammar. Instead they're in the dictionary. Here's where to look.
Pronouns are of course ordinary roots. There's no reason to make them a grammatical special case.
One point of caution. English and other Indo-European languages commonly require pronouns even in cases where they are meaningless or obvious. In Ouxu, you don't have to mention anything that's not worth mentioning. If you're talking about yourself, you don't have to say "I did this" and "I did that" in every sentence. Leave out the "I" and let it be understood.
Table 5.4. Pronouns
| of- | i- | I |
| at- | you- | you, the audience or intended audience |
| ten- | they- | they, he, she, person or persons neither you nor I |
| ho- | it- | it, something obvious or recently mentioned |
| li- | it-near-me- | it, nearer to the speaker |
| la- | it-near-you- | it, nearer to the audience |
| lu- | it-far- | it, far away |
Comparatives and superlatives are expressed with derivational suffixes. The dictionary includes examples showing usage.
Table 5.5. Comparative and Superlative Suffixes
| -kit- | -more- | more than another |
| -kut- | -less- | less than another |
| -nin- | -the-most- | the most from some group |
| -nun- | -the-least- | the least from some group |
Tense and aspect are also expressed with derivational suffixes. Besides tense and aspect proper there are a few simple time conversions which change one interval of time into another. The natural place to put one of these suffixes is often on the event or action, but of course they'll go on any content word or clause.
Table 5.6. Tense and Aspect Proper
| -ife- | -past- | past, former |
| -epi- | -current- | current, now |
| -gof- | -future- | future |
| -oxo- | -continuous- | continuously true |
| -ouhu- | -repeating- | repeatedly true |
| -koua- | -habitual- | habitually true (in the linguistics sense) |
| -utpaf- | -occasional- | occasionally true |
| -lanka- | -again- | true again |
| -afo- | -still- | still true |
| -tip- | -always- | always true |
| -tup- | -never- | never true |
Table 5.7. Time Conversions
| -ni- | -after- | later than this |
| -nu- | -before- | earlier than this |
| -xil- | -start-time- | when this started |
| -xul- | -end-time- | when this ended |
| -gupu- | -now-until- | time between now and the given time |