Connegative: is this in connegative form?
| Values: | Yes |
Boolean feature of verbs (VERB and AUX) marking a word as being in the connegative form.
In Middle Armenian, negated verbs in the indicative and conditional moods have the same form and are built with the negative auxiliary verb (չեմ) in the present or imperfect tense and the main verb, which typically appears in the connegative form (infinitive ending in -լ/-l or the form ending in -ր/-r with or without the preposition ի/i) traditionally called negative participle. Negative imperative (prohibitive) mood is expressed by a negative participle (verb ending with -լ/-l or -ր/-r) or in the present tense (2nd person, subjunctive mood) together with the negative particle մի/mi “not” (e.g. մի՛ տալ/mi tal; մի՛ տար/mi tar; մի՛ տաս/mi tas “don’t give!”). It expresses a meaning similar to that of 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 (č), 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 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, čēak’, čēik’, čēin 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՛ արգելես/mi argeles “don’t forbid!” (sing.)
- մի՛ ծախէք/mi çaxēk’ “don’t sell!” (pl.)
Connegative in other languages: [axm] [et] [fi] [hy] [hyw] [koi] [kpv] [krl] [kv] [mdf] [myv] [olo] [sme] [sms] [vep] [xcl]