Wordlist for the Svartiska Black Speech Dialect
Translated into English by Bargash

The Adragoor dialect was created by Mikael "Adragoor" Bynke in the 1990's. This is the basic orcish list that most RPGers in Sweden know about.

Bargash's Notes on Grammar

How to comparative adjectives:
zaboth (pale), zabotham (paler), zabothaj (palest)
To all adjectives you use: -am, and -aj that you hook at the end of the adjective.

How to make a verb from a substantive (noun) is very simple. Just hook -at at the end of the noun.

Example:

fegl (spade) feglat (to use a spade ie to dig).

feglatug (-ug) you are digging NOW
feglatul (-ul) you where digging a LITTLE WHILE AGO
feglatuga (-uga) you were digging a LONG TIME AGO
obfeglat (ob-) you WILL BE digging in the future.
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If you want to tell that something is YOURS, then you put -ob after it or -b)

feglob (your spade) (-ob)
gorkab (your ox) (-b)
If the word ends with a vowel, use -b
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OK, now you see -atar in the end of a word. Gee, what is this.... well it's fairly simple. This points out that it's an occupation.

Example:
feglatar - it's someone who either works with a spade or maybe he or she makes them!
Do you see -statar (a ^ over the first a) it means someone that is an apprentice, i.e. someone who is learning)
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But if I want to talk about more than one spade? Calm down, plurals are ie fairly simple, too....

ash fegl (one spade) mash fegli (two spades) ( -i ) put after a word indicates plural, if the word ends with a vowel then you use (-z).

Example:
fegli (-i)
albaiz (-z) (albai is b.t.w. one of many words for elf)

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Well, to the heck with those two spades, I want to talk about a certain special spade!
Za fegl ( THE spade)... you put za- in front of words that you want to determine!

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OK, then we come to pronouns.

Gur (I) Guri (we)
Lat (you) Lati (you)
Ta (he)
Na (she)
Gurb (mine) Gurib (ours)
Latob (yours) Takob (theirs masculine) Natob (theirs feminine)
Tab (his) Nab (hers)
Tak (they, them)

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Svartiska to English A - M

Svartiska to English N - Z


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