Sturnan grammar notes

Sturnan has a basic word order of VSO, switching occasionally to SVO. It's common to omit the subject, allowed to omit the object or the verb (though neither of the latter are popular, with the exception of the copula). Noun phrases consist of determiners (usually only articles but also quantifiers such as "a few" or "several") followed by the noun followed by the adjectives followed by secondary determiners (mostly genitive phrases). Finally come the prepositional phrases, which naturally have the preposition followed by a noun phrase. Beyond this, word order is somewhat fluid, as you can see in the text (or perhaps I only see it in comparison with my previous knowledge in the language).

Verbs inflect for person, number, and tense. There is only one tense used here, along with all three persons and only one number each. These are expressed through suffixes that take place of the infinitive affix (which is used lexically). There is also a participle form and an active gerund (such as do -> doer).

1st person plural: -in
2nd person singular: -ut
3rd person singular: -ag
Present participle: -eln
Active gerund: -ina
Infinitive: -ei
Nouns inflect for two cases: the unmarked nominative and the genitive. Both have singular and plural, though it would be fair to say that the genitive affix comes after the plural inflection. Nouns ending in -a or consonants form plurals by adding -i, except for those ending in -t, which for some reason replace that with -g /s`/ in the plural. All others form plurals by adding -dh /D/. When the plural has a consonant ending, the genitive forms in -el (plural -il); otherwise, just append -l to the stem (or the stem with plural marker).

Adjectives, as well as participles, inflect like nouns but lack the genitive case. They also feature zero-derivation nominal forms (so an adjective can function like a noun).