Láadan/Lessons/19

Introduction
Once you're comfortable with basic sentence structures, you may want to include one sentence in another. For example, "Did you know that [grandma died]?", where "Grandma died" is its own sentence, but is included in a larger sentence.

Embedding statements: -hé marker
The "-hé" marker can be used to embed one statement within another statement. "-hé" will be added to the last word in the internal sentence.

Embedding questions: -hée marker
This marker can be used to embed a question within a sentence. The external sentence can also be a question, or it can be a statement. "-hée" will be added to the last word in the internal sentence.

Embedding relative clauses: -háa marker
A relative clause modifies a noun. With the statement and question embedding markers above, the internal sentences are relatively standalone ("the rain is cold." "do you think that [the rain is cold]?"). Here, however, the relative clause will modify the sentence as a whole.

Comparison
Note the difference between using "-hé" and "-háa":