Meadow Mari Grammar - Conjunctions

Meadow Mari Conjunctions

Many of Meadow Mari's conjunctions have been borrowed from other languages such as Russian. Conjunctions can be used to links nouns, phrases, clauses and whole sentences. They don't decline, conjugate and must link two or more members of the same class (nouns, phrases, clauses, etc.). They can be divided up into three different types: co-ordinating , correlative and subordinate conjunctions.

Co-ordinating Conjunctions

Co-ordinating conjunctions link two independent clauses to each other and show that the two things are inclusive (X and Y), are exclusive of each other (X or Y), or contradistinctive to each other (not X but Y).

да and; but (everywhere but between nouns)
ден and (only between nouns)
тугак therefore, consequently, thus
туге гынат anyway, anyways; in spite of, despite, notwithstanding, irrespective of, apart from; but
тыгак therefore, consequently, thus

Correlative Conjunctions

Correlative conjunctions always come in pairs and usually consist of a co-ordinating conjunction having been doubled:

-ат ... -ат both ... and
ни ... ни neither ... nor
я ... я either ... or

Subordinate Conjunctions

Subordinate conjuctions introduce dependent or non-essential clauses, connecting them to an independent clause.

а and; but (between sentences)
гын if
гынат although, however, though; yet, still; nevertheless, even so, anyway; all the same
кеч although, however, though; yet, still; nevertheless, even so, anyway; all the same
кунам when
манын that, so that, in order that; in order to, so as to
молан манаш гын because, since
пуйто as if, as though