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There are no verbal modes as morphological marks, but modal adverbs to indicate modalities. Other verbal categories such as evidentiality, polarity... are also indicated by adverbs. For instance, negation is indicated with such an adverb, the modal adverb NEWIN. | There are no verbal modes as morphological marks, but modal adverbs to indicate modalities. Other verbal categories such as evidentiality, polarity... are also indicated by adverbs. For instance, negation is indicated with such an adverb, the modal adverb NEWIN. | ||
======''Negation''====== | |||
The modal adverb NEWIN is used for negation. It is placed before the subject and the conjugated verb. | |||
Ex. : NEWIN SE AYEYOL, "he didn't agree". | Ex. : NEWIN SE AYEYOL, "he didn't agree". | ||
======''Interrogation''====== | |||
On the other hand, questions are built with the interrogative particle KSA. For a yes/no question, it is simply placed at the beginning of the sentence, which is otherwise regular. For other types of questions, the particle is also placed at the beginning of the sentence, but a question word is added at the end. | |||
Ex. : KSA MOT KAWOK LAOFOL ? "do you like chocolate ?" ''lit. question you chocolate like ?'' | |||
Ex. : KSA KATO TON ? "where is the cat ?" ''lit. question cat where ?'' | |||
====Adjectives==== | ====Adjectives==== | ||