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Mood particles: | Mood particles: | ||
Conditional: Nóin | Conditional: Nóin | ||
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Mood particles come after the past tense particle. | Mood particles come after the past tense particle. | ||
The Conditional particle is used before a clause when to indicate that a following clause will happen if the first clause would be fulfilled: | |||
Nóin soe phuwk, vak ilr. | |||
"CON. child sleep people act.evilly | |||
"If the child sleeps, people will do bad things" | |||
The potential mood is used to indicate that the speaker believes the action in the clause happened or will happen: | |||
L'oi ne soe phuwk | |||
PST. POT. child sleep | |||
"The child probably slept. | |||
L'oi lǎwn cók pyïrp vae | L'oi lǎwn cók pyïrp vae | ||