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Questions and Interrogatives

Question particle

Questions do not alter normal clause structure.

The invariant clause-final particle:

ka

marks a clause as interrogative.

han timb husen.
He builds the house.

han timb husen ka?
Does he build the house?

han ne timb husen ka?
Does he not build the house?

han timb-de husen ka?
Did he build the house?

The written question mark is punctuation. ka is the grammatical question marker.

Interrogatives

FormMeaning
hvemwho
vatwhat
hvarwhere
narwhen
hviwhy
hurhow
vilkwhich

Interrogatives remain in the normal syntactic position of the requested information.

Examples:

hvem timb husen ka?

Who builds the house?

du timb vat ka?

What do you build?

du timb hvar ka?

Where do you build?

han skal timb husen nar ka?

When will he build the house?

du un-timb husen hvi ka?

Why do you dismantle the house?