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====Zero-copular sentences====
====Zero-copular sentences====
Zero-copular sentences are permitted in Chlouvānem, but only in certain cases; note that, in any case, leaving the copula is still correct, even if often not the use a native would do. The omission of the copula, however, is only permitted in the present tense.<br/>The copula is nearly always omitted when the subject is a determiner (i.e. ''nenē'', ''nunū'', ''sora'', ''læti'', etc., often possessive pronouns too), and when the predicate is an undeclinable adjective-like word (i.e. ''cami'', ''lalla'', ''hulābdān'', etc.):
Zero-copular sentences are permitted in Chlouvānem, but only in certain cases; note that, in any case, leaving the copula is still correct, even if often not the use a native would do. The omission of the copula, however, is only permitted in the present tense.<br/>The copula is nearly always omitted when the subject is a determiner (i.e. ''nenē'', ''nunū'', ''sora'', ''grāṇa'', etc., often possessive pronouns too), and when the predicate is an undeclinable adjective-like word (i.e. ''cami'', ''lalla'', ''hulābdān'', etc.):
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| phrase = nunū lilyai buneyi jṛṣṇa.
| phrase = nunū lilyai buneyi jṛṣṇa.
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