Editing D'ni grammar (section)

=== Participles and moods ===

The ''imperative'' is expressed with a suffix, while the ''potential'' and ''optative'' moods are expressed by adding a word after the verb. The imperative can also be used with the 1st plural person ("let's go!").

{| class="wikitable"
| <b>–ah</b>
| imperative
|-
| <b>v. + voohee</b>
| potential ("can/could")
|-
| <b>v. + yeret</b>
| optative ("may")
|-
| <b>chahn + v.</b>
| potential ("able to"?)
|}

''yeret'' is possibly a crystallised form from "we wish". "Cannot" is ''rilvoohee''. The additional modifier ''chahn–'' "able to" is only attested once, so its precise usage is uncertain.<br />
It appears that ''voohee'' precedes the verb either when the phrase supports a subordinate, or when the phrase is interrogative.


Examples:
: {{dni-text|.tahg|-em|-ah||b'-|zoo||ah||re-|kor}}! "give me the book!"
: {{dni-text|.|eder|-et||voohee}}? "we could rest"
: {{dni-text|.|eder|-tee||yeret||ahgo}} "may you sleep well"
: {{dni-text|.|oshahn||ril|voohee}} "I cannot lose"


Potentials and optatives can be combined:
: {{dni-text|.|gel|-en||voohee}} "she could write"
: {{dni-text|.|gel|-en||yeret}} "may she write"

: {{dni-text|.|chahn|choor|-en||b'-|gel}} "she is able to learn to write"
: {{dni-text|.|choor|-en||voohee||b'-|gel}} "she could learn to write"
: {{dni-text|.|choor|-en||yeret||b'-|gel}} "may she learn to write"

: {{dni-text|.|kamrov||voohee||bel|-en||roo||gel|-en||voohee}} "who could claim that they could write?"
: {{dni-text|.|bel|-en||yeret||roo||gel|-en||voohee}} "may she claim that she could write"


The ''–ah'' suffix also appears to be used as a superlative, e.g. ''zithahth'' "the Least", from ''zith'' "low" + ''ah'' + the adjective-to-noun ''-th'' suffix (see below).

The present and past participle are formed with suffixes, and usually act as adjectives.

{| class="wikitable"
| <b>–ahl</b>
| present partic.
|-
| <b>–in</b>
| past partic.
|}


The past participle should not be confused with the passive form ''-ij'', although the differences between the two are not completely understood<ref>{{cite web|url=http://linguists.bahro.com/domahreh/grammar/chapter2/participle.html|title=The Past Participle|website=A First Survey of the Facts for Writing D'ni|access-date=September 6, 2020|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20050506165901/http://linguists.bahro.com/domahreh/grammar/chapter2/participle.html|archive-date=May 6, 2005}}</ref>.