Grammatical Overview of Vegvaraki

Active
This class of verbs takes the Active verb endings. Active verbs describe a change in state or a process.

Stative
This class of verbs takes the Stative verb endings. Stative verbs describe static, unchanging things. What are traditionally adjectives in European languages are grammatically inflected like Stative verbs in Vegvaraki (though they syntactically function as adjectives).

Some verbs can be either active or stative. Their ending changes to the appropriate active or stative ending depending on the use. In certain tenses, all verbs become stative.

Animate
This is the class of nouns that can be viewed as 'volitional', that is, alive and actively doing something.

Inanimate
This is the class of nouns viewed as non-volitional, that is, when they do something it is seen as an occurrence rather than a willful act by the noun.

Some nouns are in this class (or not) when they might be expected to be otherwise, e.g. the Sun, the Moon, Light, Darkness, Rain, are animate, all animals are animate but "egg" is inanimate, all plants are animate but their products (nuts, fruit, seeds) are inanimate, moving body parts are animate (e.g. arms, tongue) but non-moving (e.g. bone) are inanimate

Particles
This is the catch-all category for words without the active/inactive distinction and don't inflect, many serve the role of postpositions or adverbs. Conjunctions are also in this category.