The grammar defaults to English-like unless otherwise specified. Note, however, that "hró" in this text is used only in a way that English "why" is not, and which is best translated by "for which reason, ..."Mėrčchi features postpositional phrases (just like prepositional only backwards). Overall sentence structure is SOV, and adjectives follow the noun.
Verbs take a tense or mood prefix, an aspect suffix, and a pronoun/agreement suffix. For optative mood, the -hl- infix follows the stressed vowel. Pronouns can either be suffixed to verbs (if they are the subject of the sentence or are agreeing with a noun in subject position) or can occur elsewhere with an accusative or postpositional suffix. If the sentence appears to have no subject, the subject is the pronoun on the verb.
The relative pronoun na, if it is the subject of the subclause, becomes a prefix to the verb; otherwise it stands alone and can take case suffixes and postpositions.