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--- nayabaru:naya [2023-12-19 15:04] – Pull the insults to the bottom of the pronouns section, expanded the section for more fun pinkgothic
+++ nayabaru:naya [2025-01-03 15:56] (current) – Another possessive form pinkgothic
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   * omission of the pronoun in regions and contexts where this is considered an implication of 'thingness' is an insult. (It will just be confusing in other cultures.)
   * using goal-plurals instead of profession-plurals, if they're the same, can be an insult //or a flattery//, entirely depending on context.
-  * usage of singular modifiers when something reflects (or should reflect) a group choice is various degrees of offensive. (e.g. "negt heshetur", or "nektehesho heshetur", 'you (plural) guardians, (singular) defend')
+  * usage of singular modifiers when something reflects (or should reflect) a group choice is various degrees of offensive. (e.g. "negt heshetur", or "netkeheshet heshetur", 'you (plural) who seek to protect, (singular) defend')
+Possessive forms are denoted, in ascending order of formality, either by simple affixing the pronoun to its subject (e.g. 'krishe͡ilnegt'), by suffixing -he͡itr to the pronoun (e.g. 'negthe͡itr'), literally from he͡itresh (possession), or by turning a title into an adjective to prepend to the subject (e.g. 'Karesejati krishe͡il').
 ===== Inflections =====
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   * **tna͡uchety͡in** - it may strike / another may strike
   * **tna͡uchety͡ir** - you (singular) may strike
+**Requested future tense** (used when requesting a future action from someone, the English "would you x?" becomes "you x?"):
+  * **tna͡uchetto** - would we please strike
+  * **tna͡uchetno** - would they please strike
+  * **tna͡uchetro** - would you (plural) please strike
+  * **tna͡ucheton** - would it please strike / would another please strike
+  * **tna͡uchetor** - would you (singular) please strike
 **Past tense** (archaic - effectively absent in modern Naya, where past tense is replaced with observations on present consequences):