Negation

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See Negative paradigms for the full attested range of subject-object agreement paradigms with negation.

Verbal negation

Verbal negation is realized as separate negative morphs of TAM suffixes:

Present, negative:
Gloss Sereer Gloss Sereer
1SG -im 1PL i-[mut]-ee
2SG -iro 2PL nu-[mut]-ee
3SG -ee 3PL [mut]-ee

There is also an allomorph -eer of -ee', the former being seen as archaic. More investigation of this alternation is needed, however.

A distinctly inflected negative imperative also exists; see the notes on this under Imperatives and Hortatives.

Adjectival and Adverb "negation"

Please see the section on Derived Modifiers