Kawaba's sentence structure is designed for flexibility and precision, with every word playing a distinct role. By understanding the rules and patterns, you'll unlock the ability to create sentences that are as concise or complex as you need them to be.

A sentence in kawaba is made up of at least verb. The verb comes first in the sentence and is the action or state of being that the sentence is about. A verb on its own can be a complete sentence, with the meaning of it is, or there is that thing.

there is a small animal

With so few roots, words in Kawaba are intentionally ambiguous, with roots often having multiple related meanings. There is no default tense or number in Kawaba, so the above example could refer to any number of animals in the past, present, or future. To add additional detail, other roots can be used where neccesary.

To specify that there are multiple of something, the root su can be used.

there are some small animals

To specify whether there is few or many of that thing, su can be modified by the roots ga and ko.

there are many small animals

A verb relates a number of nouns, referred to as its arguments. A verb may take any number of arguments, typically in the order of importance. These are prefixed with word markers or prepositions such as the word marker a, which marks the subject. The subject of a sentence is the one that is responsible for performing the verb. In the English sentence, "I love dogs", "I" is the subject.

the animal eats

There is no word to be in Kawaba, instead any word can be used as a verb meaning to be that thing.

I am an animal

Word markers and prepositions are prefixes and do not require a hyphen to be used with compound words. Arguments can be freely omitted if they are clear from context.

I am an animal, I eat.