Grammar Word Order

Grammar: Word Order

There are two ways to look at this. First of all Hanian is the one language where word order really doesn’t matter, since each type of word is unique in how it’s used and it’s meaning is specific to that word used in that form. In fact sometimes a certain order is encoded into a sentence depending on what words you use and what you wish to express with them.

However, you can increase focus and infuse additional meaning by using various Word Orders.

For instance if you wish to speak or write it formally or speaking about eternal things, then you’d usually use OSV word order. To speak and emphasize informality you’d use SVO. Commands or demands are usually short and sweet, using specific word orders that show a clear pattern. Requests would often flip them.

For instance “Dinner, Make!” is much more demanding than the much more polite “Make Dinner”. The latter is so polite it’s more of a question than even a request, more of asking are you making dinner for yourself, I’d love to have something to eat too kinda feeling. By such measure specific additional moods can be conveyed just by flipping up the word order.

I’ll include a handy chart below at a later time…..