Further analysis on the use of adjectives and adverbs in Fenekere
This is largely a review of information found in Fenekere’s Root Words and Their Derivatives, focused on Adjectives and Adverbs, but it may provide some needed clarification on certain aspects of these words.
Adjectives and adverbs in Fenekere all have a ‘u’ in the second syllable. Otherwise, they work quite a bit like nouns. To work out the meaning of an adjective or adverb, figure out it’s meaning as if it were a noun, and then apply the phrase “of or like” to the beginning of that. So, “funumaru” would be saying that the object of the sentence is “of or like the commonly held stereotype of an audience’s reaction to a poem.”
You can tell the difference between an adjective and an adverb by the third syllable, which tells you which word it modifies. If it is an ‘e’ or an ‘a’, it modifies one of the nouns, and is therefore an adjective. If it is an ‘o’, it modifies the primary verb. If it is an ‘i’ it modifies the primary adverb.
And if it is a ‘u’, it modifies the subject’s adjective. All of these are technically considered adverbs.
However, whether a word is an adverb or an adjective does not have bearing on its definition, only the word which it modifies.
The tricky aspect of Fenekere adjectives and adverbs is that they can either mean there is a similarity to the noun from which its derived, or it can be a possessive form of that noun. Normally, this is implied by a combination of the context of the sentence and the particular derivation of the noun. For example, “fenumere” would almost always be interpreted to mean “belonging to the poet” while “fenumera” would almost always be interpreted to mean “like or in the manner of composing a poem,” unless it’s obvious from context that either word should be interpreted otherwise.
However, there are prefixes that can be used to clear this up when necessary. For instance, “firuu-” is the prefix for possession. It behaves differently when attached to a noun or a verb, but when attached to an adjective or adverb, it turns that adjective or adverb into an undeniable possessive noun. If attached to the primary adverb, this means that the verb is performed in the same exact method as the new possessive noun normally performs it, i.e. “in the way of -”.