Rhean grammar notes

STRUCTURE: Rhean is a somewhat fusional, somewhat agglutinative language that usually uses head-last structure and a Subject-Object-Verb word order. Adjectives come before nouns, as do genitives and relative clauses. Adjectives do not inflect. There are no articles.

NOUNS: Nouns have five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative and instrumental. Their uses in Rhean are pretty prosaic (eg genitive for possession etc), but feel free to email me if this is unclear.
Only the inflections used in the text are listed above. You'll notice I included "consonant stems" or "vowel stems" with the case endings: the case forms depend on whether the stem ends in a consonant or a vowel. Consonant-stem nouns, when they take -i for the plural (some don't, but luckily none of those are here), become vowel-stems:

jand    bell (nom)      jand-0          bell (acc)
jand-i  bells (nom)     jand-i-N        bells (acc)

The -0 represents no ending, and is used here to show the unmarked accusative case of consonant-stem nouns.
Prepositions cause nouns to take different cases; luckily all those used in this text take the instrumental, except one. That one, O, is an optional object marker.

VERBS: All verbs are listed in the infinitive (-ak or -ek) form. Only the conjugations used are listed above; there were two irregular verbs, C'EK and REK, and the conjugations used are given in the glossary. The verbs in this piece were all in the present tense, which makes things a lot simpler. Only a couple things need explaining:

THE ADVERBIAL GERUND: marked with -adve (or -idve), this has a sense something like "(while/by/in) doing..." or example:

Fis-0 las-am.                "I mow the lawn."
Fis-0 las-ADVE ganat-im.     "Mowing the lawn, I sing."

INFINITIVES: The infinitive form behaves like a noun (it's a consonant-stem) meaning something like "the act of..." and can take any case ending:

bekdec'-ek      to set out, leave         niir        day
bekdec'-ek-A niir        "the day of leaving"; the day to leave, the day when we 
set out

CAUSATIVE CONSTRUCTION: This one gets ugly. Observe:

y-DAT x-ACC sac-ek             "to make x into y"
verb-DAT x-ACC sacek           "to make x (do) verb"
y-ACC verb-DAT x-ACC sacek     "to make x 'verb' y"

OR:

horen-0 tafak     "to eat spinach" (horen = spinach; taf-ak = eat)
horen-0 tafak-U k'odoi-N sacek    "to make (one's) children eat spinach" 
(k'odo-i = children)
Kas' horen tafaku k'odoin sace.   "Mother makes the children eat spinach." 
(kas' = mother)

RELATIVE CLAUSES: A fully conjugated verb plus the -na suffix becomes a relative clause.

ürokin kun-is'            "(she) likes dogs" (ürok = dog; kunek = like)
ürokin kunis'NA c'eno     "the woman WHO likes dogs"

Where the noun is in a more "oblique" role in its relative clause, the relative pronoun NUI is used:

ver NUI-T ürok küpiomNA c'eno    "the woman FOR WHOM I bought a dog" 
(küpiom = "I bought"; ver [+ dative] = "for")

APPOSITIONS: the preposition E marks an apposition. Both sides of the apposition must be in the same case:

lai kas' e izuta        "your mother, the doctor" (your mother E doctor)
druz'-U e Jon-U         "to (my) friend John"