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==== Verb Cases ==== | ==== Verb Cases ==== | ||
Ten cases with one or several adpositions each. | |||
* '''Desiderative''' | |||
-Expressing optional desire: ''pira jyei '''gonk''' zai'aźñortem'' – I wish to travel. | |||
-Expressing optional but preferential obligation: ''pira jyei '''mirha''' zai'aźñortem'' – I want to travel. | |||
* '''Obligational''' | |||
- Expressing preferential obligation but it's not optional: ''pira jyei '''denja''' zai'aźñortem'' – I must travel. | |||
Irrealis | - Expressing optional but preferential obligation: ''pira jyei '''denśa''' zai'aźñortem'' – I should travel. | ||
Instrumentative | * '''Necessity''' | ||
- Optional necessity: ''pira jyei '''prnte''' zai'aźñortem'' – I need to travel. | |||
- Obligatory necessity: ''pira jyei '''denta'prnte''' zai'aźñortem'' – I have to travel. | |||
* '''Alethic''' | |||
- Having the potential or possibility to do something: ''pira jyei '''delgart''' zai'aźñortem'' – I can travel. | |||
- Having the opportunity to do something: ''pira jyei '''usogz'delgart''' zai'aźñortem'' – I could travel. | |||
* '''Potential''' | |||
- To express probability: ''pira jyei '''dahel''' zai'aźñortem'' – I will probably travel. | |||
* '''Irrealis''' | |||
- Expressing regret over a past event now long gone: ''pira jyei treźpau aźñortem pira jyei ayiretuj '''gusźarrr''' jekçamp'' – If I had travelled, I wouldn't be here. | |||
* '''Instrumentative''' | |||
- Indicates the means, cause and instrument of causation of the action: ''vogh gulth gusloghe '''nivh''' merthito'' – He drowns with water. | |||
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