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  • 17:4917:49, 23 March 2024 diff hist +813 N Expressing regretsCreated page with "You can express regrets using the subjunctive or counterfactual modal words {{t|ao}} and {{t|ea}} together with {{t|luı}}. {{Example|Âo, ꝡä luı moaqchıe jí pó tóa, nä pu taı jí pó téoqme da.|If I'd memorized the words, I would have passed the exam.}} {{Example|Êa, ꝡä bu luı nue tı jí nháo pátı, nä tıshue jí búe.|If I hadn't promised them to be at the party, I could stay home.}} A simpler way involves a counterfactual speech act and {{t|luı..." current
  • 17:2017:20, 23 March 2024 diff hist +1,608 N A littleCreated page with "Toaq has two similar words that express something is the case to a small extent. Their popular definitions are: {{Example|tuao|▯ is little / not much the case.}} {{Example|sono|▯ is the case a little bit.}} The difference between these words is the same as the subtle difference between "little" and "a little" in English. {{t|Tuao}} makes a "negative-ish" claim, in the direction of {{t|bu}}, and you can think of it as "not much", "only a little", or "at most a litt..." current

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  • 19:3919:39, 26 November 2023 diff hist +22 NuotoaAdd Category:Culture
  • 19:3819:38, 26 November 2023 diff hist +875 N NuotoaCreated page with "A '''nuotoa''' is a Toaq word you invent in your dreams. Many of us have dreamt up such somnineologisms: {| class="wikitable" |+ Table of dreamwords |- ! Word !! Date !! Inventor !! Meaning !! Notes |- | {{t|paku}} || Feb 2020 || Ntsékees || wax || |- | {{t|ıraoha}} || Sep 2021 || Lynn || sun (poetic) || part of a whole dream-system of poetic synonyms |- | {{t|ezuı}} || Feb 2022 || uakci || plural constant || actually a Chinese nuotoa 景子音 |- | {{t|zıubuzıu}}..."
  • 13:2913:29, 26 November 2023 diff hist +2,692 N Sentence structuresCreated page with "This page collects useful Toaq '''sentence structures'''. = Basic = {| class="wikitable" |+ Basic sentence structures |- ! Structure !! Example !! Translation |- | Verb–Subject || {{t|Hıaı nhána.}} || They laugh. |- | Verb–Subject–Object || {{t|Dem jí cíoq.}} || I press the button. |- | Polarity, tense, aspect || {{t|{{green|Bu pu chum}} nuo nháo.}} || She wasn't sleeping. |- | Fronted subject || {{t|Líq {{green|nä}} suım hóa kúe.}}<br>{{t|Líq {{green|..." current

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  • 21:0621:06, 9 August 2023 diff hist +1,026 N Deep structure and surface structureCreated page with "In generative grammar à la Chomsky, sentences have a '''deep structure''', derived from the syntactic rules, which is transformed into a '''surface structure''' by a variety of operations such as movement. For example, the rules generating English grammar can be said to produce a deep structure like ''you buy -ed what'', which is transformed into the surface structure sentence "What did you buy?" by rules like wh-movement and irregular conjugation of the verb ''do'..." current

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