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.