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The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Beginners' Course in Novial

Contents

0. Pronunciation Guide

1. The Hound of the Baskervilles

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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

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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

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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

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Li Kaptate

• Pluperfect Tense.
• Prepositions and Adverbs from Prepositions.
• Prepositions before the Infinitive.
• Infinitive Clauses.
• Comparative and Superlative.

5. The Hound of Hell

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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

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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

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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