A few aspects of West Damar morphology are noted as follows.
Verb conjugation Verbs in West Damar are conjugated according to
person and
number.
Possession West Damar has a series of possessive suffixes that are attached to nouns. There is no possessive verb. The possessive suffixes are as follows: The possessive suffixes are built from a base suffix
-ni that also appears as a lexical derivational suffix: •
ulcho +
-ni >
ulchuni "husband" •
deweya +
-ni >
deweyeni "wife" •
ullo "month" +
-ni >
ulloni "moon"
Negation The word for "no" in West Damar is
kewe. When split into a
circumfix,
ke- -we serves as a simple negator for
content words like nouns, verbs, and adjectives. The
-we part of the negator comes immediately after the stem it attaches to, but before other clitics. A few examples of negation provided by Chlenova are as follows: Another negative predicative word
krawui "unavailable" is also recorded. ==Vocabulary==