In most of the attested examples, Adûnaic follows English word order: Subject Verb Object. Tolkien states that the object is never immediately before the verb (SD/429). Furthermore, like English, adjectives generally precede nouns (SD/428). There are several situations in which Adûnaic word order is different from English, however.

• Adûnaic prepositions are actually suffixes appended to the noun they modify.
• In compounds, an element in the objective case appear before the verbal element of the compound: Balkumagân “Shipbuilder” = “builder of ships”.
• Adûnaic participles follow the nouns they modify; see that entry for further discussion.