8.1 What counts as a particle

8 · Particles — the little connecting words · a plain-language guide to Assyrian (Sureth) grammar

Nothing to memorize here — just the lay of the land. Most particles never change shape. The exceptions are the prepositions, which can take a pronoun ending ("to him," "from me"), and a small set of predicative particles further down. A note on origins: a large share of the connective words (if, but, because, only, of course) are borrowed from Persian, Kurdish, Azeri, or Arabic — so if one sounds familiar from another regional language, that's why.

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