Questioning & exclamations
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I Exclamations
For this language you use Subject + Verb-Object + ! (SVO) for exclamation sentences e.g. "sa trie pizza!" → "I eat pizza!"
II Questions
II.1 Yes / No Questions
You must choose one clear grammatical signal that a sentence is a question.
→ Word order change
Structure:
Verb + Subject + Object + ?
→ VSO?
e.g.:
"trie sa pizza?" → "Do i eat pizza?"
II.2 WH-Questions (content questions)
You introduce question-words (WH-words)
e.g:
- becle (= what)
- besta (= who)
- betroé(= when)
- berteki (= where)
- bertzie (= why)
other question-words:
- borteka (= how)
Structure:
WH-word + Verb + Subject + Object + ?→ WSVO
Example:
becle trie sa?→ What do I eat?betroé trie sa pizza?→ When do I eat pizza?
The verb stays in second position, right after the WH-word