Patient
Pronomial-Prefixes
At a Glance

A Pronomial-Prefix is the verb-prefix which denotes the pronoun (i.e. who the verb is talking about).

A Patient prefix is used in the following way:

• Passive Meaning (for most verbs)
  A patient prefix denotes that something is being done to the perosn(s) involved, like the Passive tense in our more familiar languages (e.g. "I am being hunted").
  
  
• Exception 1: Active Meaning, for some verbs
  Some verb roots are used with the patient prefix even when they denote an active meaning. Why ? I don't know; that's the way the language goes.
  
  
• Exception 2: The Stative aspect
  For the "Stative" aspect of the verb, the usage is just the opposite. The patient prefix is the normal one used for the "Stative" aspect even when denoting an "active" meaning.
  If one want to denote a passive meaning for a Stative stem, the Agent prefix should be used.
  So, for example, take the stem "-wënötényô" which is the stative aspect of the verb meaning "to translate". If we want the active meaning, we add the patient prefix "u-" (it), to get uwënötényô, meaning "it has translated". However, if we want the passive meaning, we add the agent prefix "ka-", to get kawënötényô, meaning "it has been translated".

Patient Pronomial-Prefixes

Number	Pronoun	Stem Class (First Letter of the Word)
		A	Æ	E	Ë	I	O/U	Ö	<C>	<X>	<L>
Singular	I	ak-	ak-	ak-	ak-	ak-	ak-	ak-	ak-	ake-	?? akh-
	Thou (You, singular)	s-	s-	s-	s-	s[ë]-	s-	s-	s-	sa-	?? sá
	He	h[u]-	??	haw-	?? haw-	h[u]-	ha-	?? ha-	hu-	hu-	?? hú-
	She	ak[u]-	??	kaw-	?? kaw-	k[u]-	ka-	?? ka-	ku-	ku-	?? kú-
	It	[u]-	??	aw-	?? aw-	[u]-	a-	?? a-	u-	u-	?? ú-
Dual	We Two, INCL. (I + You)	ökny-	??	ökn-	?? ökn-	ökn-	ökn-	?? ökn-	ökni-	ökni-	?? ökní-
	We Two, EXCL. (I + someone else)	??	??	??	??	??	??	??	??	??	??
	You Two	sny-	??	sn-	?? sny-	sn-	sn-	?? sn-	sni-	sni-	?? sní-
	They Two (masculine)	??	??	??	??	??	??	??	??	??	??
	They Two (fem. or neut.)	??	??	??	??	??	??	??	??	??	??
Plural	We All, INCL. (I/We + You[one or many])	??	??	??	??	??	??	??	??	??	??
	We All, EXCL. (without You [one or many])	ökw-	ökw	ökw-	ökw[ë]-	ökw-	öky-	?? öky-	ökwa-	ökwa-	?? ökwá-
	You All	sw-	sw	sw-	sw[ë]-	sw-	ty-	?? ty-	swa-	swa-	?? swá-
	They (masculine)	hun[ö]-	??	hun-	?? hun-	hun-	hun-	?? hun-	huti-	huti-	?? hutí-
	1. They (fem.) 2. Those (inanimate)	un[ö]-	??	un-	?? un-	un-	un-	?? hun-	uti-	uti-	?? utí-

Notes

"<C>" as the first letter of the word

Denotes that the words starts with a consonant (e.g. t, k,s, ', etc.)

"<X>" as the first letter of the word

Denotes that the word starts with a cluster of two (or more) consonants (e.g. "sny")

"<L>" as the first letter of the word

Denotes that the word starts with a consonant, but also causes a set of special effect on the pronoun (most notably, causes pronouns ending with a vowel to lengthen the vowel [hence the "L" for "Long"])

"[<vowel>]" or "<something>[<vowel>]"

Denotes that the vowel in the brackets replaces the initial vowel of the word.
For example when the pronoun "un[ö]-" (they[inanimate]/patient) is added to the word "-atênínö'" (to sell), the initial "a" of the verb-stem is replaced with the final "ö" of the pronoun, giving "unötênínö'" (they are sold).

"??"

Denotes that I, the humble author of this page, do not know what the pronoun is. If a pronoun is added to the "??", then it is only my humble guess.

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