It is a highly inflected language, with fairly complex noun phrase structure and word modifications.
Mizo declarative word order is Object-subject-verb, as in: SavabirdkaIhmuseeSava ka hmubird I seeI see a birdThingfirewoodahepûcarriesThing a pûfirewood he carriesHe carries firewoodThere is no grammatical gender in Mizo language, although some animals, birds etc.
[1] Mizo is an agglutinative language in which it is rare to find morphologically simple, non-derived nouns.
Nouns are declined into cases as follows (here we show the tones in accordance with the usage in Mizo Wiktionary, which is an extension of the common usage in Mizo newspapers such as Vanglaini and monthlies such as Lengzem chanchinbu):[2] Verbs and adjectives are nominalised by suffixing -na, and adjectives can also be nominalised by suffixing -zia.
Mizo adjectives (Mizo: hrilhfiahna), when used attributively, follow the nouns they describe, as follows: naupangchildfelgoodnaupang felchild gooda good childlehkhabubookchhiartlâkreadablelehkhabu chhiartlâkbook readablea readable bookhmasawnnadevelopmentchhenfâkawmsustainablehmasawnna chhenfâkawmdevelopment sustainablesustainable developmentartuieggpum ruksixartui {pum ruk}egg sixsix eggsWhen used predicatively, Mizo adjectives are syntactically verbs,[1]: 107 being usually preceded by the subject pronoun clitics, as in: AfelA felS/he or it is goodAṭhaA ṭhait is goodIn these two sentences, a is the subject pronoun clitic, and the adjectives fel and ṭha function as verbs (syntactically).