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- A phonemic orthography - Tunisian shows a zero-copula phenomenon, ie: the verb keen ("to be") is dropped when it's the…
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Spelling This is a personal effort to standardize the variety. I chose a neutral way for the spelling. I find this bersi…
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Reminder: Tunisian is pro-drop. You don't need to use personal pronouns at all. Through its inflections, a verb is enoug…
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For the rest of this paper, we'll be denoting: C a consonant sound V a vowel sound # the rest of the word's string wheth…
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First of all, personal pronouns: For simplicity, we're going to omit You (sg. fm.) and use the gender neutral form Enti…
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Simple future Just add "beeş" before the simple present verb and there you have it; the simple future: Distant Future Ad…
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Tunisian doesn't follow the "two successive verbs; the second is put in the infinitive". Instead, you may put as many su…
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Tunisian definite article is "el" in its construct form. Although it is not gendered or numbered, it becomes mutated dep…
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Tunisian prepositions are of two states: Mutated: when followed by definite nouns Construct: otherwise Construct is the…
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They are pronouns that are suffixed roughly with the object pronoun
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Although it lost every aspect of Arabic grammatical cases, Tunisian developped a genitive case. The majority of nouns en…
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Abstract reflexive: used with verbs, expressing reflexive actions Effectice reflexive: used with subjects, expressing em…
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Questions Şnúe "What" questions, not followed with a "to be + Subject" construction, are said in Tunisian as "şnúe..." W…
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The elative is a gender-free number-free adjective grammatical case that marks: Comparative: if it comes after the noun…
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Plural It's highly irregular, you'd have a hard time memorizing each word and its corresponding plural. However some nou…
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Causative Causative mainly requires doubling the second consonant of your base 3-consonant verb: CCVC group Kber ("to gr…
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Sometimes Tunisians like to insert pronomial dative (for me, for you, for us...) right after the verb and before the acc…
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To ask for time: " Qaddeeş el waqt " or " Qaddeeş waqt " Tunisians would almost always read time analog so it's essentia…
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