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The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Beginners' Course in Novial

Contents

0. Pronunciation Guide
1. The Hound of the Baskervilles      -      Li Hunde del Familie Baskerville
  • Personal Pronouns: Subject, Object and Possession.
  • Verb: Present Tense, Imperative, Infinitive and Negative.
  • Articles, Plural Nouns and Nouns with Natural Sex.
  • Adjectives.
  • Questions.
2. The Curse of the Baskervilles      -      Li Malediktione del Baskervilles
  • Verbs: Past and Conditional Tenses.
  • Numbers: Cardinal and Ordinal.
  • The Indefinite Preposition.
  • The Reflexive Pronoun.
  • Adjectival Suffix -AL.
  • Substantival Suffix -ESO.
3. The Legend      -      Li Legende
  • Verbs: Future Tense.
  • Adverbs from Adjectives.
  • This and That: Pronouns from Adjectives.
  • Verbal Suffixes –ISA and -IFIKA.
  • Verbal Suffix –ERE.
4. The Captive      -      Li Kaptate
  • Pluperfect Tense.
  • Prepositions and Adverbs from Prepositions.
  • Prepositions before the Infinitive.
  • Infinitive Clauses.
  • Comparative and Superlative.
5. The Hound of Hell      -      Li Hunde de Inferne
  • Present and Past Participles.
  • Conjunctons from Prepositions plus KE.
  • The Reciprocal Pronoun MUTU.
  • Anaphoric Adjectives.
  • The Prefix DES-.
  • The Adjectival Suffix -OSI.
  • The General Suffix -ET-.
6. The Inquest      -      Li Inquesto
  • Passive of Being.
  • Sexless Nouns Ending in –U.
  • E/A/O Words.
  • The Prefix NON–.
  • The Prefix RI–.
  • The Suffix –AD–.
7. The Footprints      -      Li Pede-printatus
  • Passive of Becoming.
  • Impersonal Verbs.
  • Conditional Perfect and Future Perfect.
  • Future in the Past.
  • The Suffix –IV(I).
  • The Suffix –FOY.
  • The Suffix –(T) IONE.
  • The Suffix –ARI.
  • The Suffix –ESKA.
Appendix 1. Prefixes
Appendix 2. Suffixes