Tense/modal question. Turns the entire bridi into a question, and requests that the listener provide a tense/modal as an answer. The tense/modal response fills the place where cu'e was in the original bridi and the resulting bridi is the answer offered to the question.
fi'o mo
It is nigh impossible to translate this word into English without using at least three sentences.
Time tense. It refers to the current space/time absolutely.
ni'o nau djedi li bi fa lo mi nu spofu bu'u lo kutytu'a
It is now eight days I have been broken down in the desert.
While this word can be used as a sumtcita, it has no specified meaning, nor can I think of any useful meaning. I would like to add a sentence to the definition that says something like "Use as a sumtcita is not intended" or somesuch.
A time tense relation/direction. The meaning as a sumtcita is that the main bridi happens after the attached sumti. Defaults to a perspective of future-tense, and can be used with a meaning similar to future-tense in natural languages, or as "after".
fi'o se balvi
.i xu ro cmene be lo gugde ba se vasru la jbovlaste
Will every country name be in Jbovlaste?
A time tense relation/direction. The meaning as a sumtcita is that the main bridi happens simultaneous to the attached sumti. Defaults to a perspective of present-tense, and can be used with a meaning similar to present-tense in natural languages, or as "concurrent with" or "at the same time as".
fi'o se cabna
Before. A time tense relation/direction. The meaning as a sumtcita is that the main bridi happens before the attached sumti. Defaults to a perspective of past-tense, and can be used with a meaning similar to past-tense in natural languages, or as "before".
fi'o se purci
Set tense default. Establishes the tagged sumti as time, space, and/or modal reference point of the bridi, until end of text or the tense is reset. When following another tense, it establishes that tense as the default reference point.
fi'o manri
Restrictions using ki?
Does a new {ki} work from an existing one, or replace it?
Needs notes on cancellation (empty {ki}) and subscripting for storing tenses for later.
A cmavo compound time tense relation/direction. Asks with what the main bridi is concurrent, similar to English "when?".
fi'o se cabna ma
ca ma do mo'u cilre fo le balcu'e
When will or did you graduate from Uni?