Umbrean/Lessons/12 Questions

Think it is going well? The road is still long ahead, here we will go through how to ask question, how to answer and such.

Formulating
Let us start with english first.


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! colspan=2 | English ! Statement ! Question In english a question, excluding when "do" is used, is formed by switching the main verb and the subject, like many other germanic languages.
 * He is sitting
 * Is he sitting
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! colspan=2 | Umbrean ! Statement ! Question Like in english the underlines marks the area that changes. Énas is a verb and means "to sit", but what should be paid attention to is Div' which is an indicator often left out but tells that the thing is a statement, factional etc. Twej on the other hand indicates you are asking a question and that it is the active voice. all one has to do to simply make it into a question of the sort is using interogative mood of the particle infront of the verb.
 * Div' énasav'y si
 * Twej énasav'y si
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Answering
Is he walking?, Did he eat the cookies?, all questions not involving the interogative pro-forms can be answered either saying Yes or no, He did or He is (these are when you leave out the object of an auxilary verb)


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! colspan=4 | Questions and answers ! colspan=2 | ! Yes No ! Auxilary ! rowspan=2 | English ! Question ! Answer ! rowspan=2 | Umbrean ! Question ! Answer
 * Did he bring the teeth?
 * Is he sitting?
 * Yes
 * He is
 * Döndixró twej gociav'yñ kó
 * twej énasav'y si
 * Lii
 * Nóelav'y (si)
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The questions are the same in both Umbrean and english. The answer for yes/no is the same, yes (Lii). The other answer is less obvious for english but workable, Nóel is a general pro-verb used to replace previously mentioned verbs to decrease repitition. Its nature in the case of a question like this also makes the "si" part unneccisery as you are still talking about the same tense and aspect so it is often left out, Only thing done is conjugation on the Nóel verb

Interrogative Questions
or better known as wh-questions, as they use what, where, when, why etc. Interrogative

Answering

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