Humanese follows a European system of grammar with nouns being declined in cases and verbs being conjugated according to subject in various tenses. A significant feature of the language is the way that the genitive case is used. This on the one hand emphasises the subject as an agent, who although in the world is nevertheless separated from it through by virtue of being a subject and not an object. On the other hand the concept of subjects possessing or owning physical things in the world is reduced to the limbs and organs of a subject’s body. Thus the hands, feet, heart and head, et cetera of a subject are denoted as belonging to the subject by means of the genitive case in the normal way. Likewise everything that a subject thinks, feels and apprehends also belongs to the subject in the same way and this is again denoted through the use of the genitive. Objects such as tables, chairs and even clothes and toothbrushes are however described as being „for“ the subject concerned. In the case where a subject is a guest in the house of another, „for“ is used in conjunction with a conditional. Thus at his home, „Alexander’s chair“ is the chair that „is for Alexander“ whereas the place where Alexander, in the house of another, is invited as a guest to sit is „the chair that would be for Alexander“. The use of the word always implies that once we as subjects have passed away the object concerned may or will be used by someone else and that therefore the object should be looked after in a responsible manner that takes account of this. All material things that we in other languages „own“, are in Humanese, seen as being borrowed and it is our job as wardens to look after them in an appropriate manner. Only a subject’s thoughts and feeling are assigned a genitive case, this reflecting the view that during life, the self is seen as a non-material entity that philosophically exists. For more on this, see the essay „European Pragmatism“ on the Reloading Humanism Mission page.

In Humanese all verbs are semi-regular with variations only being introduced when adhering to a strict regularity would result in unpronounceable or ugly sounds. This semi-regularity is further interrupted when the active conditional is used. The closed conditional is used in descriptions of what has happened in the past and of what people though in the past. Person, X, would have done something had the not been afraid of certain consequences. Regardless of the truth of falsity of X’s beliefs concerning what might have happened had they carried out the action in question, the uncertainty and doubt is an indelibly part of how X saw the world at that time. X’s uncertainty and doubt are thus described as being „of X“ using the genitive case as described above and it is this that makes the doubt and uncertaintly of X something that, in the mind of the narrator, is beyond doubt. The conditional is in this sense closed. In an open or active conditional, uncertainty still lingers in the air. In Humanese, the closed conditional is communicated through the use of the semi-verb aye-e in conjunction with the infinite of the appropriate verb. Translated literally aye-e means to would to „would“ and the verb is irregular. In Humanese the persons are:

The persons are:

First person singular	anya
Second person singular	tutae
Third persons singular	sei, sa, sas
First person plural	voita
Second person plural	toita
Third person plural	sansi

In conjunction with these persons aye-e is usually accompanied by hu so that the verb becomes huaye-e. The hu may however be detached from aye-e and inserted elsewhere in the vicinity. The verb declines:

	Present	Past Imperfect	Past Perfect	Future
anya	hua	hoi	ho	hu
tutae	huas	hois	hos	hus
sei, sa, sas	huat	hoit	hot	hut
voita	huata	hoitta	hotta	hutta
toita	huate	hoite	hote	hutte
sansi	huayen	hoit	hont	huent

Written in the Humanese script this results in:

Huaye-e can however also be written as a sequence of declining hieroglyphs:

To avoid an unappealing concaternation of „h“ sounds, the „hah“ of the third person is often omitted.

Though in the case of the other persons the „hah“ is always written, for the same reason, it is not always pronounced. From the hieroglyphic, third person form of huaye-e it can be seen that the verb is actively thought of as lying behind the humanna of humanity:

In the present tense, through the first and second person plural forms of the verb in its hieroglyphic form, huaye-e shows the „wouldness“ that the verb embodies and this is continued in the hieroglyph for huason or „mission“:

Huason means „he who would have an idea“ yet it also means „he who, having an idea, would implement it“ as is shown by the word’s hieroglyph, which consists of the hieroglyph for feeling, eresa:

Combined with the hieroglyph for idea, ason:

Through this combination, „he who has a mission“ is someone who has an idea that, via the motivating forces of feeling, it is now their mission to realise and achieve. This thinking is continued in the hieroglyph for realisation, inkason, which is a parallelogram formed by joining the points of ason together:

while phonetically, inkason is derived from the stem of inkarre, to be born and ason. In this way the realisation of something is always the realisation of an idea and ideas are always associated with feelings. Effectively, „to be“ is to be one who feels and this is expressed through the word for being, ersine, which derives from eresa and its plural eresase. Being is first and foremost a matter of having feelings, the objects of feelings being ideas. This is hinted at in the regular verb, quay-a-aye, to have, which in the present tense declines:

Present tense	Past Imperfect	Past Perfect	Future Perfect
quaya	quaye	quayo	quayka
quayas	quayes	quayos	quaykas
quayat	quayet	quayot	quaykat
quayata	quayayat	quaytota	quaykata
quayate	quayaye	quaytate	quaykate
quayant	quayent	quaytont	quaykant

This is written in full, queta being followed by the undulating lines of umeter in a manner that suggests that the latter flow from out of the former.

In this way, even in something supposedly „closed“ as possession, there is an indication of a flow from the realm the subject out into the external world.

The notion of flow and extrusion is further seen in the words, exona, for „horizon“ and gorzona for „eternity“. These derive from exone, „to expell“, „send out“ or „to emit“:

and gorzone „to ingest“ or „assimilate“:

Here the underlying image is that of everything in the present that is unknown being thrown out towards a distant, all-encompassing horizon. At the same time, the known instant of the present is compacted into an extension-less point so that the hieroglyph for being, eresine, is:

Following the Greek philosopher, Parmenides, where the undivided totality of Being, that is to say the totality of all that is, zonia oitik, or The One in Itself, is shown by a circle, once it has been divided into parts and its parts have been given names, it is Being of Itself or zonia dipsiate dipsiatete, which is to say the One as a separated disparity of predicates, actual and potential, that are associated with the One and which accordingly belong to it as the things (and beings) that are, the things (and beings) that could be and the things (and beings) that were. Added together, the disperate separated-ness of dipsate dipsiatete gives the being-ness that is common to all beings  contained within the One and so is nothing other than the concept of being, eresine, already encountered. The sum total of scattered plurality of predicates that have the potential of the One’s innumerable facets does not however remain forever scattered but is reunited with the One in its undivided aspect by zonia oiatse, or Being brought back unto Itself. The hieroglyph for zonia oiatse is thus a circle with an arrow that shows how the separated One can become reunited with itself:

The conditional is expressed either through a verb’s being preceded by huaye-e ot through huaye-e being incorporated into the structure of verb itself. This can be done either by incorporating huaye-e as a whole into the structure of the verb or by breaking it up into segments which can be then inserted and appended as desired. This is done in a way that ensures that the resulting sounds are both understandable and appealing to the Humanese ear. Sometimes the „hu“ sound is omitted altogether. In this way, in what is nominally a language that has only a few irregular verbs, irregularity reappears with a vengeance.

The irregular verb, ire, I go, declines:

Present tense	Past Imperfect	Past Perfect	Future Perfect
ira	irrene	iro	iroka
iras	irrenas	iros	irokas
irat	irrenat	irota	irokat
irretanta	irreneta	irretota	irokata
irretate	irrenete	irretete	irokate
irretantai	irrenetantai	irretetant	irokont

The verb, ersame or sama, to be, declines thus:

Present tense	Past Imperfect	Past Perfect	Future Perfect
ersa	esamne	esamo	esamka
ersas	esamnas	esamos	esamkas
ersat	esamnat	esamot	esamkat
ersata	esamnata	esamta	esamkata
ersate	esamnate	esamote	esamkate
sasant	esamnant	esamont	esamkant

The verb, inkarra, to invent declines:

Present tense	Past Imperfect	Past Perfect	Future Perfect
inkaro	inkarno	inkarra	inkarka
inkaras	inkarnas	inkarrros	inkarkas
inkarat	inkarnat	inkarrat	inkarkat
inkarata	inkarnata	inkarintota	inkarkonta
inkarate	inkarnate	inkarintate	inkarkate
inkarant	inkarnant	inkarintont	inkarkont

It is from inkarra, that the word „reninkarne“ derives, this being the second person imperative of reninkarra, to reinvent, to revive, reanimate, recharge or reload something.

The regular verb, ipiphersa, to sail, declines:

Present tense	Past Imperfect	Past Perfect	Future Perfect
ipipherso	ipipharno	ipiphera	ipipharka
ipiphersas	ipiphernas	ipipheras	ipipharkas
ipiphersat	ipiphernat	ipipherat	ipipharkat
ipiphersata	ipiphernata	ipipherata	ipipharkata
ipiphersate	ipiphernate	ipipherate	ipipharkate
ipiphersant	ipiphernant	ipipheront	ipipharkant

The verb, oia, to believe, declines:

Present tense	Past Imperfect	Past Perfect	Future Perfect
oio	oino	oio	oika
oias	oinas	os	oikas
oiat	oinat	ot	oikat
oiata	oinata	oita	oikata
oiate	oinate	oite	oikate
oiant	oinant	ont	oikant

The verb, voia, to come or arrive, declines:

Present tense	Past Imperfect	Past Perfect	Future Perfect
voi	voino	vo	voika
vois	voinas	vos	voikas
voit	voinat	vot	voikat
voita	voia	voita	voikata
voite	voie	voite	voikate
voiant	voient	vont	voikant