Talk:Interrogative
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Interrogative case
[edit]There are more things which "Interrogative" can mean. In some languages the werb itself can be in "interrogative case", the sentence can be interrogative etc. Gorn (talk) 11:49, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
Welsh?
[edit]Welsh certainly does not have an interrogative mood. In Welsh one asks a question usually by changing the tone of their speech: Wyt ti'n mynd i'r ysgol - 'You're going to school'; but Wyt ti'n mynd i'r ysgol? - 'Are you going to school?'. The very formal literary register has an interrogative particle: a which causes an initial consonant mutation to the following verb but this is always dropped in the spoken language and sometimes the mutation survives:
- Yr wyt yn myned i'r ysgol - 'You are going to school'
- A wyt yn myned i'r ysgol? - 'Are you going to school?'
- (Wyt) ti'n mynd i'r ysgol? - 'Are you going to school?' [colloquial, with inclusion of pronoun ti and optional dropping of the verb wyt - 'be/are']
- Gwelaist y plant yn yr ysgol - 'You saw the children at the school'
- A Welaist y plant yn yr ysgol? - 'Did you see the children at the school?' [note the mutation of gwelaist → welaist where ⟨g⟩ disappears.
- Welaist ti'r plant yn yr ysgol? - 'Did you see the children at the school?' [colloquial - note the remaining mutation with the loss of the particle]
- Clywodd Llinos y dyn - 'Llinos heard the man'
- A chlywodd Llinos y dyn? - 'Did Llinos hear the man?' [again, note the mutation of clywodd → chlywodd where ⟨c⟩ /k/ changes to ⟨ch⟩ /χ/
- Chlywodd Llinos y dyn? - 'Did Llinos hear the man?' [colloquial with loss of particle but retention of mutation]
- Glywodd Llinos y dyn? - 'Did Llinos hear the man?' [colloquial with displacement of aspirate mutation (⟨c⟩ → ⟨ch⟩) for the soft mutation (⟨c⟩→ ⟨g⟩) as is common in colloquial Welsh, but never in the literary register.]
However, this does not constitute a grammatical mood and this is very much the indicative mood. I would also be very suprised if the case for Irish and Scottish Gaelic isn't very similar. - 195.92.38.21 (talk) 01:23, 6 September 2021 (UTC)