Grammar rules
Simpli has about 12 core rules. No conjugation, no gender, no cases.
Pronouns: el = he, she, it
Simpli uses one word for all third-person singular: el. There is no separate “it”; el is used for he, she, and it (people and things). So el hav no hard gramer = It has no hard grammar; Yu kan lern el fast = You can learn it fast.
1. Word order
Subject – Verb – Object. Examples: mi si yu, wi it bred.
2. No verb conjugation
Verbs never change. Express when with time words: yesterde, now, tumoro. mi go, el go, dey go. Optionally use wil (future) or hav (past or perfect) before the main verb when no time word is given: mi wil go, mi hav finis. When a time word is present, wil and hav are optional and often omitted: tumoro mi go. Use olredi (already done) and stil (still ongoing): mi olredi finis, mi stil wok. hav also means “have” as a main verb (mi hav buk); context distinguishes auxiliary from main verb.
3. Negation
Put no before the verb: mi no go, el no si.
4. Questions
Start with wat, hu, wer, wen, wai, hau. Example: wat yu neim?
5. Plural
Optional. Use numbers or meni when needed: tu buk, meni haus.
6. Articles
None. No “a” or “the”; omit them.
7. Adjectives
Before the noun, never change form: big haus, red buk.
8. Possession
Noun + possessor: haus mi = my house, buk yu = your book. You can add of for clarity, but it’s not needed: haus (of) mi, haus (of) broder (of) mi = my brother’s house.
9. Prepositions
Use: in, on, at, fram, to, wit, for. in haus, fram london.
10. Connectors
and, or, but, becos, so. mi and yu, el no go becos storm.
11. Compounds
Join words with a hyphen when useful: sun-lait, fast-trein, woter-fud.
Numbers (reading aloud)
Write numbers with Western digits (0–9). When reading aloud, use East Asian–style composition: from large units to small, with tens built as digit + ten + digit (instead of a single word like “thirty-four”).
34 → tri ten for (three-ten-four)
2026 → tu tausand tu ten siks (two-thousand-two-ten-six)
3253 → tri tausand tu hundrad faiv ten tri (three thousand, two hundred, five-ten-three)
Digits: sero (0), wan … nain (1–9), ten (10). Larger units: hundrad (hundred), tausand (thousand).