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--- mood_interrogative [2023/07/24 21:48] – [Indirect questions] corrected English grammar morgoth
+++ mood_interrogative [2023/09/07 19:38] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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-====== Interrogative mood ======
+====== Interrogative mood and questions ======
 **//Interrogative mood//** ([[abbreviations|abbreviated]] as INT) is the [[grammar_mood|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 [[grammar_verb|verbs]], adding [[prefixes|prefix]] //mar-// which goes //after// prefix of [[grammar_person|person]] and [[syntax_negative|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-//. Disjunctive questions may be more popular, because question particle is recognized more easily.
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 | why     | mûr | Why did you kill him? => Mûr gidoguzan |
-Word order in such questions alters. Question word goes first then go subject, verb and optionally an object. Question word may go in place of part of the sentence which is unknown, about which the question is. For example, "Where is the ring?" => "Min nazgum (kulâ)?" = "Nazgum kulâ min?" (lit. "The ring is where?").
+Word order in such questions doesn't change much (in contrast to English or German). Question word goes first then go the subject, verb and optionally the object. Question word may go in place of part of the sentence which is unknown, about which the question is. For example, "Where is the ring?" => "Min nazgum (kulâ)?" = "Nazgum kulâ min?" (lit. "The ring is where?").
-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.
+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, depending about which part the question is.
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