Word Structure & Agglutination

Just like in all agglutinative languages, words in ütkupanä are composed of individual morphemes, each containing a single semantic meaning. These morphemes (which tend to be suffixes) follow a very strict order, which differs slightly based on the part of speech. Though the order does differ the morphemes do follow a general sequence. The sequences are:

General order:

base-suffixes-essential grammatical affixes-article

Nouns:

base-suffixes-case marker-number marker-article

Verbs:

base-suffixes-mood marker-tense & aspect marker-optional attached subject marker

Adjectives and adverbs:

base-suffixes-optional stative verb marker-tense+aspect/curent aspect agreement