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===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||
===Verbal Particles=== | ===Verbal Particles=== | ||
Verbal particles are key to Cumbraek syntax, indicating subordination, negation, interrogatives and more. | |||
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="text-align:center;" | |||
! style="width: 60px; " rowspan="4" | ''e'' <br> ''edh'' | |||
| style="width: 400px; text-align:left;" | 'dummy' particle at the start of a sentence | |||
| style="width: 450px; text-align:left;" | ''E levir Melik Cumbraek'' 'Melik speaks Cumbraek' | |||
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| style="text-align:left;" | infixes object pronouns | |||
| style="text-align:left;" | ''Es gweles'' 'I saw her' | |||
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| style="text-align:left;" | in place of a relative after adverbials | |||
| style="text-align:left;" | ''Ar er mor e trigant'' '[It is] by the sea that they live' | |||
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| style="text-align:left;" | meaning 'that' before subordinate clauses | |||
| style="text-align:left;" | ''Ema govnok warnav ey prenidh'' 'I hope that you buy it' | |||
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! rowspan="3" | ''a''<small><sup>L</sup></small> | |||
| style="text-align:left;" | the relative pronoun when the subject or object is antecedent | |||
| style="text-align:left;" | ''Er din a garav'' 'The man whom I love' | |||
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| style="text-align:left;" | the genitive relative | |||
| style="text-align:left;" | ''Er verch a dheskidh i that'' 'The girl whose father you teach' | |||
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| style="text-align:left;" | follows a focussed subject or object | |||
| style="text-align:left;" | ''Ei ath gar'' ''''I''' love you' | |||
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! ''ru''<small><sup>SL</sup></small> | |||
| style="text-align:left;" | used before the preterite to form the perfect tense: | |||
* at the start of a sentence (spirantising) | |||
* in place of relative ''a'' (leniting) | |||
| style="text-align:left;" | ''Ru chuskus-ev er didh oll'' 'He has slept all day' <br> ''Er prit r'edes en newidh'' 'The meal which I have just eaten' | |||
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! ''nuw''<sup><small>S</small></sup> | |||
| style="text-align:left;" | affirmative, somewhat emphatic particle | |||
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===Prepositions=== | ===Prepositions=== | ||
===Syntax=== | ===Syntax=== | ||