Thread:User talk:Jagwar/Malagasy!/reply

Hi! First, I would like to thank you for your interest in our language.

To answer your question: yes, there are tons of inflection in Malagasy language.

In Malagasy we have these features on verbs and nouns (non-comprehensive list): Nouns have neuter, compound, and possessed forms. About verbs, neuter and passive voices are person-inflected verbs, while the active ones are not. Each voice, tense, type and mood has a specific prefix and they are combined together to the root to make inflected forms.
 * Noun-marking prefix (f-, mp-);
 * Verb-marking prefix (m-);
 * Active, neuter and passive voices (for verbs);
 * Present (-), past (n-) and future (h-) tenses (for verbs);
 * Potentative, intensive, transitive, reciprocative (-if-), causative (-amp-), types;
 * Indicative, imperative, subjunctive, conditional and infinitive moods;

About roots:
 * All roots ending with either "-ka", "-tra", "-na" are irregular, but they are often predictable.
 * Monosyllabic roots tend to inflect irregularly (tao becomes -aova- in words like fanaovana; kely becomes -kelez- in words like fihakelezana).

If you want all of them in a template, then there should be one where we can fill one by one all the inflected forms. Best regards,