• of negative markers in language. Beside negative particles and negative affixes, negative verbs play a role in various languages. The negative verb is...
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    sentence is constructed, in some dialects if a verb or adverb is in between two negatives then the latter negative is assumed to be intensifying the former...
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    Appendix:English modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to...
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    Japanese verbs, like the verbs of many other languages, can be morphologically modified to change their meaning or grammatical function – a process known...
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  • there are no negative pronouns, such as "nobody"; rather, the positive pronoun is negated with the negative verb ei. No double negatives are possible...
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    Finnish, the other Sámi languages, and Estonian, has a negative verb. In Ume Sámi, the negative verb conjugates according to mood (indicative and imperative)...
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    Finnish, the other Sámi languages and Estonian, has a negative verb. In Skolt Sámi, the negative verb conjugates according to mood (indicative, imperative...
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    other Sámi languages, and some Estonian dialects, has a negative verb. In Lule Sámi, the negative verb conjugates according to tense (past and non-past), mood...
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    like Finnish and the other Sámi languages, has a negative verb. In Inari Sámi, the negative verb conjugates according to mood (indicative, imperative...
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  • Classifying verbs is simple in theory: Take the verb in its plain, negative form. The result will be: verb-stem + ない (nai) If the last character of the verb-stem...
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  • is optional, though. E.g. pronouns become clitics for the negative verb ei and for the verb "to be". In this table, the apostrophe (') is something between...
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    Southern Sámi (category Subject–object–verb languages)
    Finnish, the other Sámi languages, and Estonian, has a negative verb. In Southern Sámi, the negative verb conjugates according to tense (past and non-past)...
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  • negation (NEG) are ways in which grammar encodes positive and negative polarity into verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances. An affirmative (positive)...
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    Finnish, the other Sámi languages and Estonian, has a negative verb. In Pite Sámi, the negative verb conjugates according to mood (indicative, imperative...
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    verbs are a small set of English verbs, which include the English modal auxiliary verbs and a few others.: 19 : 11–12  Although the auxiliary verbs of...
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  • stem as the basic negative verb stem: esin "I didn't", esid "you (sg.) didn't", es "s/he didn't" etc. Originally, the negative verb may have had participles...
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    the past negative form. 五段 godan verbs: 使う /tukau/ ("to use") becomes 使わん /tukawaN/ and 使わへん /tukawaheN/, 使えへん /tukaeheN/ 上一段 kami-ichidan verbs: 起きる /okiru/...
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  • form a past negative verb with 'ಇಲ್ಲ', suffix 'ಇಲ್ಲ' to the infinitive form of the verb ending in 'ಅಲ್'. To form a present negative verb with 'ಇಲ್ಲ',...
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  • (abbreviated PROH). Negative imperatives tell the subject to not do something. They usually begin with the verb "don't" or the negative form of a verb. e.g., example...
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  • somebody" mannəm (säb) "any(one)" ("no one" with negative verb) attəm "any" (="no one, nothing" with negative verb); attəmu "no one" (as pronoun) lela (säb)...
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  • extension -ku- does not appear with short verbs in the situational verb form. There is, strictly speaking, no negative form of the situational, however, in...
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    There are fewer inflectional classes, and inflections of nominals and verbs alike can be predicted from only a few basic principal parts. Veps has twenty-three...
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  • spoken'. The auxiliary verb ei used for negation, usually with the naked stem of the main verb but with the past participle in the negative imperfect. Finnish...
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  • In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that...
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  • that are followed by another main verb. Hawaiian has an imperative indicated by e + verb (or in the negative by mai + verb). Some examples of the treatment...
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  • often a verb or a verb-like word, though this is not universally the case. A verb that is a copula is sometimes called a copulative or copular verb. In English...
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  • of a negative particle; negative verb and negative aspectuals (semantics of time) to change positive constructions into negative ones. The negative particle...
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  • short words in Japanese grammar that immediately follow the modified noun, verb, adjective, or sentence. Their grammatical range can indicate various meanings...
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    Akkala Sámi (section Verb)
    of a negative verb that conjugates according to person and number, while the main verb remains unchanged. The conjugation of the negative verb is shown...
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  • An auxiliary verb (abbreviated aux) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect...
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