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''Fon lachnamh go xe dhsianna'' (the worker builds often/many things) | ''Fon lachnamh go xe dhsianna'' (the worker builds often/many things) | ||
The citation form is the imperative | The citation form is the imperative: | ||
* ''Siann!'' 'Build it!' | * ''Siann!'' 'Build it!' | ||
* ''Xe dhsiann!'' 'Build them!' | * ''Xe dhsiann!'' 'Build them!' | ||
* ''Aoigh!'' 'Run!' (singular) | * ''Aoigh!'' 'Run!' (singular) | ||
* ''Xe n-aoigh!'' 'Run, you people!' | * ''Xe n-aoigh!'' 'Run, you people!' | ||
The preterite tense, which uses ergative syntqx is formed with ''fo'' + L + imperative or ''xobh'' + L + imperative: | |||
* ''Fo shiann sa lachnamh'' (The worker built something) | |||
* ''Xobh shiann sa lachnamh'' (The worker built many things) | |||
* ''Fo shiannann sa lachnamh'' (The worker built it) | |||
* Prescriptively: ''Xobh shiannanna sa lachnamh'' (The worker built them) vs ''Xobh shiannann sa lachnamh'' (The worker built it over and over). However these two forms are often conflated. | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||