Bengali and English/Inflection Schematics for different POS
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Pronoun
- Person
- Number
- Honorifics + Animacy
- Grammatical Case
DOES NOT inflect on
- Gender
- Though it may seem that pronouns inflect with 'টা'/'the' article attached, we consider it a separate word. e.g এ -> এটা. Both having the meaning 'the'. We do not consider this as an inflection, but different word.
Verb
- Tense + Mood
- Honorifics + Animacy
- Negative eg. সে যায় - He goes, সে যায়না - He does not go
DOES NOT inflect on
- Number
- Gender
Noun
- Number
- Animacy
- Case
- Determiner eg. boy - ছেলে, the boy - ছেলেটা
Note:
- The plural form is always implicitly 'definite article(determiner) added', we do need to explicitly add that. eg. বইগুলো can mean both 'books' and 'the book'
- Right now we are treating 'Genders' as separate words, not as inflections.