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Talk:Negative verb

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"The action itself is placed in an infinitive form" is not quite true in Finnish... The form depends on the tense and mood, as you can see in these examples. --Mikko Silvonen 14:26, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs serious copyediting so that it includes all forms of the negative verb in the F-U languages; for example, the North Sámi example makes no mention whatsoever of the supinum form of the negative verb. -Yupik 09:47, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

They explain negation, not specifically negative verbs. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 10:05, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is the Japanese 〜ない somehow a 'negative verb', as described by the article's lead section?

I don't think the non-Uralic languages described match the definition at all. --88.113.162.167 (talk) 21:37, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs some examples of negative verbs in action accompagnied with glosses. 2003:E6:9743:21FB:805A:B122:4D52:2111 (talk) 11:55, 14 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]