Well, Anshens is generally SVO, nouns and verbs can end however they want, plural anything ends in ‘-ıl’, and adjectives, adverbs, and possessives end in ‘-ı’, adjectives and possessives come before the subject that they're describing, and adverbs come before the verb and pronoun. As you can see, nouns are very easy to use as they tend to be, but this isn't quite the case in the case of pronouns. Pronouns are weird in Anshens. There are three in first person, two in second, and three in third:

The first person pronouns are:

‘Ni’, the first person singular (like I, or me)

‘Wi’, the first person inclusive plural (like we)

‘Mi’, the first person exclusive plural (like us, but not you)

The second person pronouns are:

‘Sŏ’, the second person singular (like you)

‘Tviıl’, the second person plural (like y’all, youse, etc)

The third person pronouns are:

‘Gpi’, the third person personal singular (like he, she, they)

‘Ta’, the third person impersonal singular (like it)

‘Ņıl’, the third person plural (like they)

Waowza, no gender and still more than in english! Anyways, the reason that pronouns and verbs are weird is because of one very simple thing: conjugation. Conjugation is the thing where you change verbs depending on who’s doing the action (i. e. she runs, they run). In Anshens though, the conjugation is in the pronoun. Sorry. Luckily, it’s a pretty simple tense system with past, present, future, and the past participle, so you don’t have to worry too much about anything too crazy. There is also a present participle, but that isn’t necessarily conjugated with a pronoun so ehh.

Present Tense	Ni	Wi	Mi	Sŏ	Tviıl	Gpi	Ta	Ņıl
Past Tense	Niz	Wiz	Miz	Sŏz	Tviılız	Gpiz	Taz	Ņılız
Future Tense	Nil	Wil	Mil	Sŏl	Tvil	Gpil	Tal	Ņil
Past Participle	Nid	Wid	Mid	Sŏd	Tviılıd	Gpid	Tad	Ņılıd

Because pronouns are used as conjugation, they are effectively a necessity before every verb. Because I don’t know how to explain the other goofiness of the grammar, let’s look at and messily examine an example sentence:

“Wê, esıf gpi ǒv heð dısrê kntvâ tū ni, gpi ǒv heð knzav fa va vimı ča gpi manž ıtvs šašņo!”

[weː ɛsɪf kpi uv hɛð d̪ɪsr̥eː kn̩̪t̪væː t̪ʌ n̪i kpi uv hɛð kn̪̩zaːv fa va vimɪ t͡ʃa kpi maːnʒ ɪtvs ʃaːʃŋo]

Oofta, that’s a whole lotta “huh?” eh? Well, let’s break it down to its parts:

“Wê” is just an interjection that means basically the same as “well”

“Esıf” means ‘if’

“Gpi” is the third person singular in present tense, as per the table

“Ǒv” is the non-infinitive form of ‘tvǒv’, which means ‘to have’

“Heð” is the definite article (like ‘the’)

“Dısrê” means ‘desire’, or ‘want’, as you can see, it’s being treated as a noun and used as a verb because non-physical verbs are abstract concepts and therefore not ‘real’ verbs, in a sense, and so to say that someone wants something, you can say that ‘they have with the desire for [something]’

“Kntvâ” is the infinitive of ‘knâ’, and means ‘to find’

“Tū” means ‘to’ as a preposition

“Ni” is the first person singular in present tense, as per the table

Whenever a verb affects a noun, there needs to be a preposition (like to, of, for, etc), which preposition is required depends on the verb before it. If the word after the verb is also a verb, than the second verb must become infinitive, or a gerund, in which case it is treated as a noun

“Gpi ǒv heð”- from prior we can figure this to be ‘they have the’

“knzav” means ‘knowledge’

“Fa” means ‘for’

“Va” means ‘in’ but only in the physical sense, like 'I'm in the café'

“Vimı” means ‘which’ but only in an objective sense, you would have to use 'vinı' for a living being unless you want to make it look like you see the other being as an object for whatever reason (if you see people or other animals as objects I suggest going and visiting a therapist, as that is cause for some concern.

“Ča” means ‘place’

So, “knzav fa va vimı ča” means ‘knowledge for in which place’, even though ‘knowledge’ is being treated as a noun, it’s still being used as a verb, and so it must follow the same rules as a verb, and the word after it must either be a preposition or an infinitive verb (you might’ve noticed that ‘ǒv’ ignores this rule, this is because it’s just used a lot and people in real life tend to drop prepositions in common phrases. That’s why it probably looks like I use ‘that’ and other prepositions far too much in my writing; I just can’t bring myself to drop them). Because the knowledge is of ‘ča’, there cannot be a verb after it and so it must be followed by the preposition ‘fa’. Technically, the ‘fa’ could’ve been followed by ‘heð ča’ and ‘heð ča’ could’ve been followed by ‘va vim’, but instead ‘va vimı’ is said first because it flows nicer with the rest of the sentence, and because the next word is a pronoun (spoilers), you don’t want a super general word like ‘vim’ before it because that makes it look like you’re referring to the ‘vim’ instead of the (in this case) ‘ča’, which can cause confusion, especially because the next word is ‘gpi’, a personal pronoun, and ‘vim’ is specifically impersonal, as noted above

“Gpi manž” means ‘they should’, it could also be written as ‘gpi ǒv heð manž’ because should is an abstract concept. In the case of ‘should’, the difference between treating it like a regular verb and treating it like a noun-verb thing is in effect the same as the difference between saying ‘should’ and ‘ought’

“Itvs” is the infinitive form of ‘ıs’, and means ‘to be’

“Šašņo” is the conjugated form of ‘štvašņo’, and means ‘look [for]’

So, “gpi manž ıtvs štvašņo’ can be translated as ‘they should to be looking [for]’, or ‘they ought to be looking [for]’. You might now be wondering “hey wait where did that -ing come from???.??.” well, earlier I mentioned that there was a way to conjugate into the present participle but not through pronouns, and that’s it right there. All verbs that come after ‘ıtvs’ and its other forms are always in the present participle except when they’re infinitive. “Other forms.!1?....???” I hear you asking. Yes, other forms: there’s the infinitive, ‘ıtvs’, that appears after other verbs, the conjugated form, ‘ıs’, that is used when it comes after a pronoun, and the “gerund” form, ‘sı’, which indicates a gerund and comes after a preposition and before a verb. Yes that means that 'ıs ıs' is a possible and proper phrase.

Now that we’ve gone through the sentence, let’s put it together:

“Well, if they have the desire to find to me, they have the knowledge for in which place they should be looking!”

Oofta, that looks straight evil! Well, there’s a reason that no-one directly translates anything between languages, so, if we change the sentence to work in english grammar and show it off with the intention to also show some differences in grammar between anshens and englsih like so:

Change ‘if they have the desire’ to ‘if they want’

Change ‘to find to me’ to just be ‘to find me’

Change ‘they have with the knowledge’ to ‘they know’

Change ‘for in which place’ to ‘for where’

We get:

“Well, if they want to find me, they know where they should be looking!”

Oh jeez that’s way shorter! Why would somebody say such a simple sentence with all of those extra words? Well it’s simple: they (hypothetically, I’m the sole person who can speak this language atm lol) don’t! In a hypothetical reality in which anshens is spoken regularily, this sentence would really sound a lot more like:

“Wê, esf gpiyǒvıdısrê kntvâ tni, gpiyǒvıð knzav fav’vimı ča gpi manž ıtvs šašņo!”

[weː ɛsf kpijuvɪd̪ɪsr̥eː kn̩̪t̪væː t̪n̪i kpijuvɪð kn̪̩zaːv favʊ̆vimɪ t͡ʃa kpi maːnʒ ɪtv ʃaːʃŋo]

Yeah. Because Anshens has a lot of little words, it’s spoken quickly like spanish and consonants kinda merge into each others at times, but also because consonants also matter a lot like in english, there’s also a whole lotta vowel reduction and skipping, especially around nasal consonants. This vowel reduction and speed is emphasized further because of emphasized vowels and single-vowel words getting elongated in their words and sentences.

“‘Vimı sna a sǒz ǒv heð maņi-a gpi ad ıs ansıl gpiı kalaņi, eti,, taz ıs anı.’ ‘Ê? Fa vimı sna ê?’ ‘Zna kalaņi,, gpi yūz vo gpi.’”

Yeah I tricked you, it’s a short conversation-thing this time. Regardless, because you, dear reader, have access to the dictionary, I don’t feel like going through the same spiel as last time, so I’m just gonna translate it directly and explain from there:

“‘Which reason that you had the belief-that they would be without their dog, that,, it was wrong’ ‘Huh? For which reason?’ ‘Because dog they present by them.’”

Yup, still as goofy-looking as ever. So, this sentence rises a few questions: “Why is ‘which’ used in the first sentence?” “-a?” “What’s with ‘ê’?” “What even is that last sentence???” Are all probably among them. Even if they’re not, I’ll explain them here anyways, because that’s the point.

• What’s With Which? Well, if we look to the dictionary, we find some sort of answer- “Vim/вим- what, which, whichever, whatever; vimı/вимы- what/whichever.” From here, we can figure that ‘whichever/whatever’ is a definition that makes more sense, making the sentence “‘For whichever/whatever reason that you have the belief that they without their dog, it is wrong.’” That makes significantly more sense!
• ‘Without their dog’? Not according to the last sentence! Laugh. No? Fine, whatever. Anyways, ‘without’ is used instead of ‘don’t have’ because it feels like it makes more sense. That’s it. Also there’s usually no ‘ıs’ before it or ‘ı’ at the end even though ‘ansıl’ is an adjective because it, in this case works almost kind of like a verb or like ‘not’ (‘ūl’). Used purely as an adjective though, it’s still irregular because instead of going from ‘ansıl’ to ‘ansılı’, it goes from ‘ansıl’ to ‘anıs.’ Ansıl is a very commonly used word so its irregularity is cemented and a necessary thing to remember :)
• Two commas and "that"? Yup! This manufactured question has two parts: firstly, there's two commas in order to differentiate what I think of as a 'weak' comma and a 'strong' comma— the 'weak' comma is used to separate a noun from its corresponding pronoun when one is using a verb as otherwise things get annoying to read. The 'strong' comma is just a comma in its typical usage. Funnily enough, in actual Anshensi orthography, the double comma is the 'strong' one and the single is the 'weak' one. Secondly, "that" in this case is used to 'emphasize' the proceeding "it", as otherwise the meaning can be somewhat muddled. I originally omitted the "that" when I wrote the sentence a while ago because I forgot about it, but I came back to change it once I read the sentence out loud and took a second to figure out what I wrote. If you were trying to figure it out and were confused: whoopsies, that was my bad.
• -a? Yeah. The conjunction thing of ‘a’ a long time ago was a contraction of ‘[verb]-az’ for some reason, and then the ‘z’ got dropped. It also, as is seen earlier in the sentence, is not contracted after ‘sna.’ Honestly I can’t remember why that is, but it used to require a proceeding verb so I’m not complaining about it. I’m also not complaining because I made that decision and it was made partially for aesthetic reasons but shhhhhh dw about that, especially because it’s a consistent inconsistency; it only gets the dash after a verb, so it’s a pretty harmless random oddity.
• Hey wait what’s with the ‘vimı’ in the second sentence too??? Aha! You noticed! Well, going back to the dictionary definition of the word ‘vim’, you might see that ‘whichever/whatever’ is a definition right next to ‘what/which.’ This is because God (me, in this case) hates you. Just kidding! It’s because different definitions apply in different contexts! :D!
• What different contexts? Also what’s with ‘ê’? Well, I’m glad you asked! Conveniently, you asked the answer along with the question as well! The phrase ‘fa vimı sna’ means ‘for whatever/whichever reason,’ but the phrase ‘fa vimı sna ê’ can be translated to ‘why’! Because ‘ê’ is a question particle, it changes phrases to their question variants; technically, this means that ‘fa vimı sna ê?’ just means ‘for what reason?’, not ‘why?’, but for simplicity’s sake I translate it as such most of the time. So, in a sentence with a question particle, ‘vimı’ goes from ‘whatever/whichever’ to ‘what/which’! How neat! But wait a second… what about in the first example sentence when ‘vim’ had no question particle and still translated to ‘which/what’? Well, that’s a good question! When ‘vim’ is a noun (‘vim’ and not ‘vimı’) and in a sentence without a question particle, it can be either ‘what/which’ or ‘whatever/whichever.’ Generally though, if it’s being used in place of a noun, it’s always ‘what/which,’ but if it’s alone at the end of a sentence (e. g. ‘Fa vim’), it means ‘whatever/whichever’ unless there’s a question particle after it (in which case it wouldn’t be ‘alone’ but I’m just clarifying); however, if there’s a question particle at the end of the sentence, ‘vim’ always means ‘what/which.’
• What’s with that last sentence why is it like that. Verb grammar! Before every non-infinitive verb, there must be an accompanying pronoun, regardless of if it follows a noun. To be fair, ‘yūz’ probably wasn’t the best verb to use to introduce this concept, as it translates a bit weird because when I first added it as a word to Anshens, it meant ‘there is’ in the same sense as ‘hay’ in spanish, and then I changed it to function as a verb so I translate it as ‘present’ (as in, ‘I am present’ but as a verb), but it’s kind of weird in english idk.

Anyways, with all that sorted, let’s take a look at the proper translation:

“‘For whatever reason that you believed that they wouldn’t have their dog is wrong.’ ‘Huh? Why?’ ‘Because there’s a dog by them.’”

Beautiful. Comprehendible. Perfect.