Wistrish noun indefinitives
Wistrish has a group of particles attached to the end of nouns (or the interrogative pronoun ππ°π as a placeholder) called indefinitives that generally bear indefinite meaning.
Indefinitives should not be seen as indefinite articles: general indefiniteness is solely expressed through strong adjectives. Despite that, due to their meaning, nouns with indefinitives always require (indefinite) strong adjectives.
There are three indefinitives in Wistrish:
- Positive indefinitive -ππΉπ½. Very close in meaning to English determiner "some", marking a generic noun without relevant distinguishing features. It should not be conflated with the determiner "ππΏπΌπ", which bears a meaning close to "some particular".
- Negative indefinitive -π·πΏπ½. Very close in meaning to English determiner "any", most frequently used in negative sentences to mark negations similar to English "no X" or German "kein X".
- Distributive indefinitive -ππΏπ·. Has an English determiner counterpart of "each", used to apply statement to each of the noun in groups. Distributive indefinitives require iterational GnIt.
Wistrish indefinitives are used more often than their English determiner counterparts (except maybe for "-ππΏπ·") and unlike them indefinitives by themselves are not emphatic. To convey an emphatic meaning, a construction of ππ°π + noun + indefinitive is used.
Note that generic ππ°π + indefinitive is not used as a determiner, only pronominally.