II.3. Grammar of East-Elven

Through the phonetic changes the grammatical system of Eastern Elven was restructured, although it remained basically the same. In the verbal system some conjugated forms were replaced by special constructions; another change is the introduction of an article.

II.3.1. Nouns
By the phonetic changes in the syllables which followd the accent the declension of the elven language was largely reduced within Fénilar. In consequence of the difference between short and long final vowels, two declensions developed: the vocalic and the consonantal declension. Here the expression "consonantal" means the result of the elision of short final vowels. Consequently "vocalic" means the result of the shortening of long final vowels.

1.) The consonantal declension
The example here is sídd (people, m.)

As can be seen from the table the plural introduced the ending -es, which had been -s resp. -is in Eleiar.

2.) The vocalic declension

The example is gúr (horn, m.)

Apart from the accusative and locative, the method of Eleiar, to attach an -s remained

Also words like indar (hunter) belong to this declension. Nouns of two or more syllables have a change in the form of the stem:

Like western Elven Fénilar also introduced an article in order to replace the old gender particle. In contrast to the West-Elven the form efna (from the stem FIN) was chosen, which probably developed from the interaction between the gender particle and the demonstrative stem fin; here a- (Þ e-)is most likely a epenthetic vowel which arose by the contraction of a fin (resp. o fin) to the new stem *AFN-. In contrast to western Elven Fénilar did not use the kind of declension of the pronoun, but of the noun.

Adjectives decline like nouns but do not decline for gendere.g..: efna thorl indar (the fast hunter); ufnach bádalach éthrach (the beautiful sweetheart, Akk.).
The comparison of adjectives has been restructured because of the sound changes and instead of the prefixes a special construction is used. Starting point of this construction is the stem ÞER (much, big, very), which was combined with the comparison-prefixes and the endings of the article to give the comparative adjectives cithra (approximately: "more, bigger") and nuthra ("most, biggest"). At first we will list the forms in the following table:

In a sentence, these comparative adjectives are combined with the article and the noun phrase;e.g.: efna cithra thorl indar (the faster hunter), efna nuthra thorl indar (the fastest hunter).