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Even verbs with finite forms are defective verbs, since finite forms are always perfective (except forms of ''luð''). To express the imperfective with these verbs, you still have to use the copula + bə + VN construction. The negator ''lu'' only negates finite verbs. | Even verbs with finite forms are defective verbs, since finite forms are always perfective (except forms of ''luð''). To express the imperfective with these verbs, you still have to use the copula + bə + VN construction. The negator ''lu'' only negates finite verbs. | ||
The present particle ''ri'' comes from ''ru{{aleph}}i'', the imperative of ''ra{{aleph}}ō'' 'to see'. ''Ri'' is not used in subordinate clauses: | |||
*'''''Ri''' Đavíð þaś žin.'' = David is about to sleep. | |||
*'''''Pið''' Đavíð þaś žin, r'u dal bə xapuð uras.'' = When David goes to sleep, he doesn't turn off the lights. | |||
Yes-no questions are marked by a rising intonation, using the focus particle ''=n(ə)'' (cognate to Hebrew נא) after the word/phrase whose truth value is asked about, and dropping ''ri'' in sentences with a nominal subject. In sentences without a specific focused constituent, ''n(ə)'' appears sentence-finally in sentences with no finite verb, and after the finite verb if there is one. | |||
* ''Đavíð þaś žin nə?'' = Is David going to bed? (neutral) | |||
* ''Đavíð nə þaś žin?'' = Is it David who's going to bed? | |||
* ''Fows nə tə [neśú] jaś Marí amž?'' = Did you marry Marí yesterday? | |||
* ''Fows tan [neśú] jaś Marí amž?'' = Is it you who married Marí yesterday? | |||
Finite forms of ''kaht'' 'to take' can be used as an auxiliary meaning 'to go ahead and VERB/to take the liberty to VERB/take the initiative to VERB'. Knench-influenced English dialects use ''take'' in a similar way: ''I took to buy spare parts myself, because my department wouldn't give me any.'' | |||
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