Connegative: is this in connegative form?
| Values: | Yes |
Boolean feature of verbs (VERB and AUX), marking a word as being in connegative form.
In Middle Armenian negated verbs in indicative and conditional moods (traditionally called negative participle) have the same form and are formed with the negative auxiliary verb (չեմ) in present or imperfect tense and the main verb, which typically appears in the infinitive (ending with -լ/-l or -ր/-r) with or without the preposition ի/i. Negated imperative (prohibitive) mood is expressed by a verb in the infinitive (ending with -լ/-l or -ր/-r) or in the present tense (2nd person, subjanctive mood) together with the negative particle մի/mi “not”. There’s also a rarely used old form of prohibitive imperative, which is formed with a verb in Classical Armenian present tense and the negative particle մի/mi (e.g. մի՛ տաս/mi tas “don’t give!”). It expresses a meaning similar to a negated verb in the subjunctive mood, roughly “You’d better not give.”
Note that there is no No value. If the word is not connegative, the Connegative feature will not appear.
Yes: word is connegative
Examples
- չեմ, չես, չէ/չի (չ), չենք, չէք, չեն ի տալ (տար)/čem, čes, čē/či, čenk’, čēk’, čen i tal (tar) “I; you; he/she/it; we; you; they do not/will not give”,
- չէի, չէիր, չէր, չէաք, չէիք, չէին ի տալ (տար)/ēi, čēir, čēr, čēak’, čēik’, čēin i tal (tar) “I; you; he/she/it; we; you; they did not/would not give”,
- չեմ, չես, չէ/չի (չ), չենք, չէք, չեն տալ (տար)/čem, čes, či, čenk’, ček’, čen i tal (tar) “I; you; he/she/it; we; you; they do not/will not give”,
- չէի, չէիր, չէր, չէաք, չէիք, չէին տալ (տար)/čēi, čēir, čēr, čēink’, čēik’, čēin i tal (tar) “I; you; he/she/it; we; you; they did not/would not give”
- մի՛ բարկանալ/mi barkanal “don’t get angry!”
- մի՛ փոխեր/mi p’oxer “don’t change!” (sing.)
- մի՛ ծախէք/mi çaxēk’ “don’t sell!” (pl.)
- մի՛ արգելես/mi argeles “don’t forbid!”
Connegative in other languages: [et] [fi] [hy] [hyw] [koi] [kpv] [krl] [kv] [mdf] [myv] [olo] [sme] [sms] [vep] [xcl]