Editing D'ni grammar (section)

== Adverbs ==

''Adverbs'' normally follow the word they refer to, unless that word is modified by adjectives or other words. A few adverbs are composite, e.g. ''tomet'' is ''to'' "place" + ''met'' "this".

{| class="wikitable"
| '''met'''('''ee''')
| this (these)
|-
|'''mot'''('''ee''')
| that (those)
|-
| '''gormet'''
| now
|-
| '''gormot'''
| then
|-
| '''tomet'''
| here
|-
| '''tomot'''
| there
|-
|'''preniv'''
| again
|}


Examples:
: {{dni-text|yim||shem|-tee}} '''{{dni-text|preniv}}''' {{dni-text|gormet}} "I see you <u>again</u> <u>now</u>"
: {{dni-text|kor|-tee}} '''{{dni-text|tomet}}''', {{dni-text|kor|-tee}} '''{{dni-text|tomot}}''' "books <u>here</u>, books <u>there</u>"

: {{dni-text|tahgahm||kor}} '''{{dni-text|met}}''' "I know <u>this</u> book"
: {{dni-text|tahgahm}} '''{{dni-text|met}}''' {{dni-text|kor||prin}} "I know <u>this</u> small book"


Note that ''mot'' can also be used as a relative pronoun: ''rekor mot gelen'' "the book that he writes"; however, when referring to personal nouns ("who"), ''kamrov'' should be used: ''reshokhootahn kamrov yim'' "the instructor (who) I see"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://linguists.bahro.com/domahreh/grammar/chapter2/relative.html|title=Two Forms of 'that'|website=A First Survey of the Facts for Writing D'ni|access-date=September 6, 2020|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20050506165840/http://linguists.bahro.com/domahreh/grammar/chapter2/relative.html|archive-date=May 6, 2005}}</ref>.

''met'' and ''mot'' are singular when used as adjectives (''khoy hevtee met/mot dohooreet'' "if these/those words are found"), but plural when used as pronouns (''kokeneet pekay be motee/metee'' "they were insidious to those/these").


{| class="wikitable"
| '''blo'''
| about
|-
| '''gahth'''
| still / yet
|-
| '''gorven'''
| soon
|-
| '''kat'''
| only / just
|-
| '''megoyray'''
| straight out
|-
| '''tsahn'''
| always / forever
|-
| '''tsahnril'''
| never
|}


Examples:
: {{dni-text|.|ken|-en||torinai||gahth||te-|Delin}} "it is still cold in Delin"
: {{dni-text|.|megoyray||mre-|prad}} "straight out from the rock"


Adverbs can be negated by prefixing them with ''ril''' "not" (note the apostrophe):

: {{dni-text|.|re-|keelen||fahets||ken|-en||ten||ril}}'{{dni-text|tsahn}} "the first step is not always simple"


"Never" can be expressed with ''tsahnril'':

: {{dni-text|.|re-|keelen||fahets||ken|-en||ten||tsahnril}} "the first step is never simple (lit. simple never)"

but can also be expressed by negating the adjective<ref>{{cite web|url=http://linguists.bahro.com/domahreh/grammar/chapter2/negative.html|title=The Negative 'Rihl'|website=A First Survey of the Facts for Writing D'ni|access-date=September 6, 2020|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20050506165816/http://linguists.bahro.com/domahreh/grammar/chapter2/negative.html|archive-date=May 6, 2005}}</ref>:

: {{dni-text|.|re-|keelen||fahets||ken|-en||ril||ten||tsahn}} "the first step is never simple (lit. not-simple always)"