Alright, you're very good at making individual sentences now. But a sentence isn't all there is! We need to be able to mix, mash and flow between ideas! Selsimicu has several words for doing this, which might seem daunting at first, but it removes a lot of ambiguity once you understand the patterns! But first, vocab!
First of, sometimes a sentence has multiple words filling in the same role in the sentence: "she and i went home". We've only been dealing with one of everything thusfar! What do we do??
This is where our first category of conjunctions comes in. These are "li" ("and") and "ujx" ("or"). You simply slot them in between the first one in the role, and the second in said role. Rinse and repeat!
Check out the difference between these two sentences:
"I punch him". yikes!
"He and I punch". phew.
Notice how, because Selsimicu is SOV, asa and nata are separated into different roles (subject and object)? If you see a li or ujx at somewhere, it means it's still on whatever role it was already at. This works for the subject, object, verb and postpositional clauses. It does NOT work for applicative adjectives. Those can just be put next to each other and it's fine. Let's go to example city!
"I want berries and fish."
"Either your sibling or a different child broke the bag!"
"The obsidian was in my room or Jurtu's room."
"It's gonna be important and SUPER obvious."
"Birds fly quickly and freely" (no li!)
Our next word is "na", which doesn't have any variants. na is interesting, in that it's not really a conjunction, but rather what I (think is) called an "Echo Subject"! It makes a new sentence, with na standing in for the subject of the previous sentence. It's like how YOU can start talking about something, AND continue talking about another thing. That second sentence doesn't have a YOU, but you knew it was still you. This is what na does! Pretty much. Works wonders when you have a single person doing multiple sings in sequence.
"She left the room and is now free."
"Fishes can't feel water, and they're ugly. I don't like them" (harsh!)
"Think about it and come to me!"
"I love you, and I must say it"
na only ever takes the place of the subject, and only after an actual subject has been established in the conversation (including if someone else said it). Splitting sentences linked with na up with punctuation is optional.
Do conditionals count as conjunctions? Yes. Selsimicu has two of them, being "akpiru" and "tzasu". Both are placed between two sentences, with the one of the left being the condition, and the one on the right the result. Which one you use then specifies the relationship of both sentences.
"akpiru" implies a prediction or hypothetical, also used to discuss plans. IF it starts raining, THEN I'll stay home. Meanwhile, "tzasu" is direct and immediate, describing causation or momentary reasoning.
"It's still not satisfied, so it definitely wants more water, right?" (na is also here. hello na!)
"If you come, we'll probably be able to talk."
"If I don't absolutely hate him, may Plaza'o herself destroy me."
"When water is heated, it boils"
(tux is an auxiliary verb that turns zpatsu (hot) passive ("is heated"), and ezcu can mean boiling when referring to water and water only. i feel like i had to explain this one)
The "itz" family is pretty much the closest thing to basic conjunctions in Selsimicu. You just put them where they need to be! There's several, and they all cover different things, but they work the same way as akpiru and tzasu: One sentence to the left, one to the right.
These are "itz" and "karp", which act similarly to li and ujx, in that the former is similar to "and" or "then", and the later is similar to "or". There is also "atke", which works like "but" or "however".
"I arrived home, and Jurtu was there."
"He arrived home, but I wasn't there."
"Either I change, or you change. We can't be the same."
"The selsian won, but their siblings left."
"You're cute, he's cute, she's cute, I'm cute."
Congratulations! You are now one step closer to learning Selsimicu for realsies! If you ever get to holding an actual Selsimicu conversation, this lesson will have been very useful!
Next up is your second recap, where we'll go through exercises featuring all the topics of our previous 5 lessons! Click continue whenever you're ready, or just go to Lesson 11 if you want.
*this is a joke calling to attention the fact that the language Bābbé̬p by ZeWei has a very similar set of words that function similarly to na. i am not implying that they based those on na, nor that i based of na on those. i added "na" to Selsimicu a couple months before the 28L video came out. so if anything i was actually first >:3 take THAT zewei !!!