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 ===Modal constructions===
-In Modern Tíogall, infinitives or verbal nouns go to the end of the clause for common modal constructions (e.g. want, need, must, may).
-Drion ean le ghnúi.
-on-1SG water to drink.VN
-I have to drink water. (lit. It is on me to drink water.)
-Oith góis le shnóisill.
-go_through.PRES with-2SG to continue
-You may continue. (lit. It goes through with you to continue.)
-For emphasizing the object, "want/need/etc. an X to Y", a resumptive pronoun can be used after the verbal noun. (Alternatively the emphatic clitic -na/-ne can be used on X.)
-Geilin tána le cháis ú!
-from-1SG something to eat.VN 3SG.M-DEP
-I want something to eat!
-Not all constructions with the verbal noun use the infinitive-final order:
-Ní h-airŋín lion áichir ú.
-I didn't succeed in finding it.
-The infinitive-final order arose from constructions corresponding to modal verbs in English: originally the order was something similar to "Drion gnúi ean" ("on-1SG drink.VN water"), then "Drion ean le ghnúi" (originally "I want water to drink") became more common, eventually to the exclusion of the original construction, which is archaic or high-register today for common modal expressions.
 ===Conjunctions===