As previously mentioned, toki pona lacks any form of declension, and the only grammatical classes are grammar words, content words, prepositions and preverbs (these last two being themselves content words).
The pronouns are:
- mi: any first person, inclusive or exclusive
- sina: any second person, inclusive or exclusive
- ona: any third person
- ni: this/that, demonstrative
(seme, the interrogative word, is grammatically a pronoun, but I am not including it here because it behaves differently)
The basic structure of a sentence in toki pona is:
- mi/sina P [e O]
- S li P [e O]
S being subject, P, predicate, O, object.
When a sentence doesnt have an object, a fun ambiguity arises, this one usually being solved by context: are you the subject or the object?
Example:
ona li moku
This can be translated as both "it is food" and "it is a consumer".
Now in the last days I am planning on doing "word of the day" posts where I talk about the semantic space and examples of use, does that sound fun? Stay tuned.