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==== | ||
*'' | *''jalúne'': "advisable". | ||
*'' | *''re̋dáme'': "necessary", used to express need to do something. | ||
*'' | *''širŋúre'': "required/compulsory"; moral obligation, "ought to". | ||
*'' | *''tírrēné'': "permitted", used to express permissibility. | ||
====Modal adverbs==== | ====Modal adverbs==== | ||