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===Adjectives=== | ===Adjectives=== | ||
===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||
Vadi verbs are for the most part contain no grammatical inflection. They do not mark for person, number, tense, or aspect. Few, if any clitics attach to them. Any affixes that appear on the verb are predominately derivational, most of which are deverbals to derive instrumental, locational, and occupational nouns. | |||
The language has a variety of converbs which appear before their head. These converbs encode modality, aspect, manner, and various adverbial meanings. The converbs may be separated from their head by other elements, such as illocutionary particles, discourse markers, etc. Common converbs include: | |||
*''ura'': "again; to repeat" | |||
*''koni'': "to start, begin" | |||
*''kila'': "to stop, cease" | |||
*''helas'': "to attempt, to try to do something" | |||
*''ila'': "immediately; to do quickly" | |||
*''ókapi'': "suspiciously; to do with malfeasence; to be deceptive" | |||
*''kitál'': assertive particle, usually translated as "You did do it!" | |||
*''yoawíka/yawkâ'' /jo'ka:ʔ/ (per Iyyaħmi): presentational particle, usually translated as "Look here (at the evidence I present you), possibly a loan from Minhast ''wahēk'' "behold; and then" | |||
As the language's canonical word order is SOV, the verb phrase occupies the final position of the clause, with the tense markers ''nai'' and ''hai'' appear at the very end of the clause. | |||
===Derivation=== | ===Derivation=== | ||