Interrogatives
In Zekaisivarsi, interrogatives (irvavai) are words or morphemes that are used to ask questions. They inflect similarly to substantives, qualificatives, relatives, enumeratives, and factives that they replace. Furthermore, they are not required to front.
Substantive interrogatives indicate persons or things whose identities are not known or which need to be specified. They are either animate or inanimate, masculine, feminine, epicene, or common.
The factive interrogative is viaih, literally “do what”. This is used to ask what someone does or what happens.
Vau, viail? You spoke, and [he/she] did what? (What did he/she do as you spoke?)
Isici uvlae, viain[i]? It’s cold all of a sudden. What has happened? (Cold has jumped up. [It-is-cold jump-up] What has happened?)
[i] The suffix n represents the absolute-intransitive impersonal; a form of factive in which the valency is zero and the event is not caused or suffered by a person.