a transitive verb: e.g. -, which turns a static or intransitive verb or a noun into a transitive verb: cf. "water-tight" and "to make water-tight"; and "tallow" and "to put tallow on". Aspect: e.g. - "continuously" (-! "to sleep continuously, all the time"); - "to be in the position of performing an act" ( "to be at rest"). Plurality (human): i.e. - ( "they took"). Mode: e.g. - "hypothetical" ( "if you should be asked"); - "exhortative" ( "do not let us do so!") Passive: e.g. = "passive of verbs with instrumental" ( "it is paid to the midwife"); - "passive of verbs expressing sensations and mental actions; also sensations produced by outer actions" ( "to be affected by a furuncle"). Restriction of subject: e.g. - "some" ( "some of them vomit in house"); - "some" ( "some are unripe"). Nominal suffixes: e.g. -! "season" ( "season of scarcity of food"); = "the one by whom one is owned as" ( "master (i.e. the one by whom one is owned as a slave)"). Verbal suffixes: e.g. = "to die of inner troubles" ( "to die of longing"); - "to pretend" ( "to pretend to cry"). Adverbal/adjectival suffixes: e.g. - "real, really" ( "your real supernatural power"); - "large" ( "a great number of sea otters"). Source of information: e.g. - "it is said" ( "very much, it is said"); - "in a dream" ( "in a dream it was seen that he went"). Degree of certainty: e.g. - "perhaps" ( "you perhaps"); - "emphatic certainty" ( "I am going to go"). Conjunctions: e.g. - "referring to a previous subject of conversation or narrative"; - "but, on his part". Emotional attitudes: e.g. - "astonishing!" ( "is that you?!"); - "oh if!" (- "oh, if he would come!"). Auxiliary suffixes: e.g. - "motion without cessation, away" ( "to lift a load out of a canoe"); - "plural of locative suffixes" ( "to stand in a row in the house"). Inflectional suffixes There are two major types of inflectional suffixes in Kwakʼwala: verbal suffixes that modify a predicate; and nominal clitics, which may agree with a noun present in the sentence, or may be entirely pronominal. Verbal inflection A typologically notable feature of Kwakʼwala is the distinction made in verbal conjugation between visible and invisible subjects. A distinction is also made between subjects that are near the listener and those that are far.