Verse:Mwail/Old Gloob: Difference between revisions
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Themsaran is poor in true modal and auxiliary verbs; "adverbial" and "adjectival" modal constructions are more common. Deontic modalities tend to be expressed adjectivally, while situational and epistemic modalities tend to have adverbial expressions. All modal expressions come before the (negation-) lexical verb (e.g. ''Jêr méŧar ħlomaréch šyrfāmâst!'' "How dare you betray my brothers!", note that the verb is in the preterite). | Themsaran is poor in true modal and auxiliary verbs; "adverbial" and "adjectival" modal constructions are more common. Deontic modalities tend to be expressed adjectivally, while situational and epistemic modalities tend to have adverbial expressions. All modal expressions come before the (negation-) lexical verb (e.g. ''Jêr méŧar ħlomaréch šyrfāmâst!'' "How dare you betray my brothers!", note that the verb is in the preterite). | ||
====Modal adjectives==== | ====Modal adjectives==== | ||
*'' | *''lāmersé'': "it is sufficient to..." | ||
*''ıalúne'': "advisable". | *''ıalúne'': "advisable". | ||
*''re̋dáme'': "necessary", used to express need to do something. | *''re̋dáme'': "necessary", used to express need to do something. | ||