Negation and Questions
Clause negation
ne is the invariant clause-negation particle.
ik ne timb — I do not buildik ne timbde husen — I did not build the houseik skal ne timb husen — I will not build the house
Lexical un- is different: it forms an opposite, reversal, or absence.
un-timb — dismantle / reverse building
Yes and no
ja — yesnin — no
nin is a standalone response. It does not replace clause negation ne.
Question particle
Questions retain normal clause order and end with ka.
han timb husen ka?
Does he build the house?
The written question mark is punctuation; ka is the grammatical question marker.
Interrogatives
| Form | Meaning |
|---|---|
hvem | who |
vat | what |
hvar | where |
nar | when |
hvi | why |
hur | how |
vilk | which |
Interrogatives remain in the ordinary syntactic position of the missing information.
du timb vat ka? — what do you build?han skal kom hir nar ka? — when will he come here?