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 conjugation (redirect from Te form of Japanese verb)
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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Finnish grammar (redirect from Finnish verbs)
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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Ume Sámi (section Negative verb)
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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Skolt Sámi (section Negative verb)
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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Lule Sámi (section Negative verb)
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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Inari Sámi language (section Negative verb)
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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Affirmation and negation (redirect from Negative mood)
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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Pite Sámi (section Negative verb)
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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Proto-Finnic language (section Negative verb)
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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Kansai dialect (section Verbs)
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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Imperative mood (redirect from Imperative verb)
(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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Soddo language (section Copula and existential verbs)
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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Swahili grammar (redirect from Swahili verbs)
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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Veps language (section Negative verb)
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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Finnish conjugation (redirect from Finnish verb conjugation)
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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Copula (linguistics) (redirect from Be (verb))
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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Tamambo language (section Negative verb tete)
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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