(sun to child) ndao hu hą sinihǫ duti hąca 'come here and eat much with me!' (fem. to fem.) xye na te ye xye na 'let us kill her!' | rowspan="3" | The plural marker -tu (or a-) is used for plural addressees, and person markers mark objects (except for 2nd person negative imperative). There is one example of the person marker omitted from the (ku)...ni imperative: kąhą ni 'do not cry!' |- ! Negative | na5; second person strong negative(ku)...ni (the regular indicative form) | | | na yada na 'beware lest you all go!' ayį na 'do not drink it!' (ku)...ni ayįktu ni 'do not (ye) let him go!' akohi ina ni 'do not stand in the yard!' |- ! Rare | hi ko5; "deferential"dki~tki6 (possibly for female addressees)ką| colspan="2" | hi ko: same as hi (potential mode marker) | hi ko eke xyi dį ini hi ko 'well, why don't you want (as you have been talking about it for so long!)' ayįxtu ikada hi ko 'you go home yourselves (instead of telling us to do so!)' dki~tki ayindi ded ki 'you go yourself!' (male to female) ini te xti ko, nit ki 'well, walk (as you are so persistent!)' ką duxtą aku ką 'pull it and bring it here!' de dǫx ką cidike yuke 'go and see how they are!' |- ! colspan="2" | Dubitative mode | ha| | na/ni | yihixtitu ha ni 'they might have the most' (fem.) kiyetu kąca ha na 'they must have told her' | Meaning somewhat uncertain due to limited data. Appears adjacent to na/ni like hi, but unlike it is does this even in embedded sentences. |- ! colspan="2" | Strong declarative mode | xye, masc speaker xe, female speaker | xye: follows dande | xe: precedes xo | xye nitani xye 'it is large' ade ixyǫtu xye 'they talk very rapidly' xe itoho ko nitani xe 'the log is large' nkapa nedi xe 'my head aches' | Stronger semantic force than na/ni. xye/xe may be followed by xo, but it's unclear whether this lends additional meaning: nda dande xye xo 'I will go whether he wishes or not' |- ! colspan="2" | Inferential mode | yeke| dande | na | anik wahetu yeke 'they must have gone into the water' kide yeke na 'he must have gone home' | Most often used with a declarative marker. |- !