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===Wh- words=== | ===Wh- words=== | ||
Rówok has several ways of forming questions, using both [[#Particles|particles]] and [[#Derivational morphology|enclitic suffixes]]. | Rówok has several ways of forming questions, using both [[#Particles|particles]] and [[#Derivational morphology|enclitic suffixes]]. | ||
====Interrogative particles==== | |||
:'''''u(m/n)''''', comes at the beginning of both direct questions and indirect questions. In direct questions it means something like '''"did/does the following hold true...?"''', and in indirect questions it means '''"if/whether"'''. It shows euphony, being realized as /u/ before consonants, /um/ before vowels in words whose first subsequent consonant is voiced, and /un/ before vowels in words whose first subsequent consonant is unvoiced. | :'''''u(m/n)''''', comes at the beginning of both direct questions and indirect questions. In direct questions it means something like '''"did/does the following hold true...?"''', and in indirect questions it means '''"if/whether"'''. It shows euphony, being realized as /u/ before consonants, /um/ before vowels in words whose first subsequent consonant is voiced, and /un/ before vowels in words whose first subsequent consonant is unvoiced. | ||
====True wh- words==== | |||
The following table shows a couple of things, namely that there is both a long form and a short form of, as well as an imperfective and perfective form of, the classic five '''who, what, where, when, why*''' words. These are all native Rówok roots, while the words for '''how''' are often loaned from Finno-Ugric. | |||
They are in long form if at the beginning of the sentence, and in short form if forced by [[#Fronting|fronting]] to a subsequent position. They are also in short form if they are in dependent clauses, where they act as subordinating [[#Conjunctions|conjunctions]]. | |||
They are further "conjugated", for lack of a better term, according to the [[#Aspect|aspect]] of the verb to which they refer. | |||
:*The word for "why", '''''pwočimo''''', is actually a hybrid borrowing from Russian '''почему''' and the original Rówok interrogative root '''''pw-'''''. | |||
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