marks plural objects when they are not specified elsewhere. It comes after -tu and before all mode markers. Examples: de ya daha 'he sent them' yacǫ daha ǫni 'she named them (in the past)' There are two examples of daha being reduced to ha: įkte ha dande 'I will kick you (pl.)' nyiku ha dande 'I will give it to you (pl.)' a- may be added to some verb roots to mark an unspecified indefinite object: ki 'carry on back' nkaki 'I carried something on my back' da 'gather' nkada 'I gather things' Mode markers There are many mode markers in Biloxi. Some are common and well understood, while others are infrequent and have elusive meanings. {| class="wikitable" |+ Mode markers ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" | Mode ! rowspan="2" | Marker ! colspan="2" | Position ! rowspan="2" | Examples ! rowspan="2" | Comments |- ! Follows: ! Precedes: |- ! colspan="2" | Declarative mode | na, male speaker ni, female speaker | colspan="2" align="center" | always last | na nka dande na 'I will say it' hetinyǫ nyukedi na 'we are just going to do so to you' ni nkadutedą ni 'I have finished eating' įkowa įdahi otu ni 'they themselves hunt and shoot it' | Usage is optional: taneks nkąxti 'I am a Biloxi woman' cǫki itak nąki 'you dog sits' (= 'you have a dog') |- ! colspan="2" | Interrogative mode | wo, male speaker ∅, female speaker | colspan="2" align="center" | always last (never appears with declarative) | wo etikįnyǫni wo 'did I do that to you?' iyixǫ wo 'have you had enough?' ayą ade wo 'does the wood burn?' ∅ kihaki cidike yukedi 'what kin are they two?' ayą ade 'does the wood burn?' | It is unclear what sort of intonation accompanied the interrogative. |- ! colspan="2" | Hortatory mode | hi | | na (or wo) | te hiyetu hi na 'you must kill him' nyiku hi ni 'I shall give it to you' | Almost always appears before declarative na/ni, but there's one example of it before wo: kawa nkǫ ta hi wo 'what will (we) wish to do?' Also, it may appear on its own in embedded sentence: ani ndǫ ni nkanda hi yihi 'he thought I should not see the water' |- ! colspan="2" | Potential mode | dande | tu daha | na xe | adutik kikǫ daha dande 'he will