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 gramar = It has no hard grammar; Yu kan lern el fast = You can learn it fast.
1. Word order
Subject – Verb – Object. Examples: mi sii yu, wi iit rais.
2. No verb conjugation
Verbs never change. Express time with fixed particles before the verb: did (past), now (ongoing), wil (future). Examples: mi did go (I went), mi now go (I am going), mi wil go (I will go). Optional aspect markers: olredi (already), stil (still), not-yet (not yet).
3. Negation
Put no before the verb: mi no go, el no sii.
4. Questions
Start with wat, hu, wer, wen, wai, hou. Example: wat yu nem?
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, from, to, wit, for. in haus, from London.
10. Connectors
and, or, but, becos, so. mi and yu, el no go becos raen.
11. Compounds
Join words with a hyphen when useful: sun-lait, fast-tren, wata-food.
Numbers (reading aloud)
For saying numbers aloud, you can use an East Asian–style reading: 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)
3253 → tri dausand 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), dausand (thousand).