make food for them' nka dande na 'I will say it' | |- ! colspan="2" | Optative mode | tE1 | tu daha | dande ǫ wo hi ni | yąxkiyoxpa te yayukedi 'you (pl.) are wishing to drink it up for me' pis te xti ande 'she strongly desires to suckle' | te almost always follows -tu, but there is a counter-example: te ye te tu ką 'when they wished to kill him' cf. te hiyetu te ko 'when they wished to kill you' |- ! colspan="2" | Subjunctive mode | xo~xyo2 | colspan="2" align="center" | always last | kedi xyo 'he must (?) dig it alone įnaxta xo 'I will kick you, if' | Semantic force is in question. Involves potentiality and contingency ('... if/provided). nani 'can' may appear before 'xyo', lending it the meaning 'must' or 'must have': ǫ nani xyo 'she must have done it' ede te yake daha yandi nani xyo 'this must be the one who killed us' |- ! colspan="2" | Habitual mode | xya~xa3 | Everything except... | ... na/ni | supixtitu xa 'they are usually very black' tiduwi xa 'he alights' nkakiyasi xa na 'I always liked it' (masc.) nkint ko yinisa ndux ni xa ni 'I never eat buffalo meat' (fem.) | Habitual and declarative combined are sometimes glossed as 'can': tąhį xa na 'he can run' (if he wishes) akutxyi nkǫ xa na 'I can write' |- ! colspan="2" | Negative mode | (ku)...ni| colspan="2" align="center" | | kudǫxtu ni xti 'they could not see them at all' ayį ni dande 'you shall not drink' | It's unclear when ku is needed. It is used for stems ending in -ni and with the feminine declarative marker ni4. The negative form of the verb duti 'eat' is kdux ni 'he did not eat', and not the expected kudux ni. |- ! rowspan="3" | Imperative mode ! Positive | ta, male speaker to male addressee di, male speaker to female addressee te, female speaker to male addressee ∅, probably used to address children, possibly also female speaker to female addressee xye na, first person plural | stem (+ number marker) | | ta eyąhį ta 'come!' adǫxtu ta 'look!' (you all) di akanaki daca di 'come out and gnaw on it!' dupaxi di 'open the door!' te dǫxtu te 'you all look!' dǫ te 'look at him!' ∅ yąxkiduwa 'untie me!'