The grammatical dictionary of Lidepla

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In the LdP language, for more precise description, a special system of grammar terms is introduced. This labelling is used in the present grammatical dictionary.

In the first place, full-meaning words (wordas) and particles (partiklas) are marked out. Full-meaning words convey principal meanings and may be used on their own. Particles serve for uniting words into complete expressions.

Then, all LdP units are classified according to their role within a sentence (so the classification is performed primarily from the syntax point of view) and also, for full-meaning words, according to the accompanying grammatical particles. Thus, among full- meaning words one can distinguish the following basic groups: kwo- wordas, kwel-wordas, zwo-wordas, komo-wordas. Note that the names of the classes are not arbitrary but composed from meaningful words of the language. Let us look into the meaning of the four mentioned terms.

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