Interrogative mood (abbreviated as INT) is the grammatical mood that is used to form various questions. While English uses auxiliary verbs and special word order for questions, Nûrlâm uses special grammatical form of verbs, adding prefix mar- which goes after prefix of person and negation but before derivational prefix and root. In contrast to English in Nûrlâm word order is not changed, and auxiliary verbs like “do/does/did” are not used in questions as they already have a grammatical marker mar-.

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There are 4 various forms of questions.

General or polar questions require answering with “yes” (“akh”) or “no” (“nar”). To convert declarative sentence into general question interrogative mood is used. Example:

General questions may be answered by repeating the statement from question in declarative form (without mar-), especially when question contains double negative. Shortened answers like “He did / He didn't” do not have equivalent in Nûrlâm, but object may be omitted in repeated statement (“Did he killed a dragon? – He didn't” = “Tamardoguz ash lûg – Tadoguz”).

Alternative or choice questions are similar to general questions but answer requires selecting option(s) presented in question (either repeating a question in declarative form with only one option or simply with one word). Conjunction “or” (= “ogh”) is used to present a second choice. Answer may be also like “all of them” (“ulûk” or simply “ûk”) or “none of them” (“narash” or just “nar”) or “both” (= “za agh zîg”, lit. “this and that”; = “zîg agh isk”, lit. “that and another”). The second option in question may be a negation of the first one (“or no” = “ogh nar”), but this makes it closer to general questions.

Disjunctive or tag questions are formed with declarative sentence, but turned into interrogative by question particle (tag) “mar?” which may be translated into English as “right?”, “isn't it?” etc.

Special or non-polar questions are formed with question words (interrogative pro-forms: pronouns and pro-adverbs) and require a full sentence to answer. Interrogative mood of verbs is not used because question words already contain question prefix m(a)-.

Word order in such questions alters. Question word goes first then go subject, verb and optionally an object.

Exceptions are words “mai” (who?) and “mash” (what?), both also used with meaning “whose?”, as they may refer either subject or object, then word order is typical SVO with question word going into either Subject or Object's position.

Questions starting with “mûr” (= “why?”) are usually answered with gerundives.

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Indirect questions are subordinate clauses of declarative sentences. They are formed similar to special questions, but question words are replaced with their relative counterparts. Interrogative mood is not used. For example “I don't know where did he go” = “Danarîst amin ta ukhuz”⁴⁾

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Interrogative mood may be combined together with other moods:

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