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Clofabian nouns can take one of many case clitics, which are not true suffixes. Suffixes for "cases" other than the nominative and the definite accusative are attached to the combining form of the noun. Plurals are marked with ''-azin'', ''-az(o)-'' (e.g. ''ampin'' person, ''ampazin'' 'people'); pluralization is usually reserved for animates, and are never used with numbers or quantifiers. | Clofabian nouns can take one of many case clitics, which are not true suffixes. Suffixes for "cases" other than the nominative and the definite accusative are attached to the combining form of the noun. Plurals are marked with ''-azin'', ''-az(o)-'' (e.g. ''ampin'' person, ''ampazin'' 'people'); pluralization is usually reserved for animates, and are never used with numbers or quantifiers. | ||
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Yes-no questions are formed by adding the question particle ''pegol'' to the subjunctive: ''Zenazumab pegol?'' (Did he go?). However, colloquial speech often shortens this to ''-mapel'' or even ''-mpel''. "What" questions do ''not'' use this ending: ''cesin gliserotin(avir)?'' = what language is this? | Yes-no questions are formed by adding the question particle ''pegol'' to the subjunctive: ''Zenazumab pegol?'' (Did he go?). However, colloquial speech often shortens this to ''-mapel'' or even ''-mpel''. "What" questions do ''not'' use this ending: ''cesin gliserotin(avir)?'' = what language is this? | ||
For realis forms (e.g. indicative, attributive, "when", "while"), the negative marker is ''-fo-'': ''sabafovir'' 'he does not write'. For irrealis forms (e.g. subjunctive, conditional, optative, verbal noun), the negative marker is ''-tu-'': ''Sabatumab!'', ''Sabatumumab!'' or ''Sabatumomab!'' means 'Don't write!' | |||
*'can' (ability) uses ''-tecan'' (inflected as if it were ''-tecavir''; the attributive is ''-taxel'') | *'can' (ability) uses ''-tecan'' (inflected as if it were ''-tecavir''; the attributive is ''-taxel'') | ||