Dunna!

In Shaetlan der twa wyes o makkin negative sentences. In sentences wi whit dey caa auxiliary verbs or function verbs (i.e. verbs at døsna hae muckle meanin i demsels but ging alang wi anidder, lexical verb) da negator is da morphological verbal suffix -na: I dunna/didna see him, du sallna/sudna spaek, he willna/widna come, we irna/wirna hungry. Dis isna da sam as Standard English, whar da negator (not) is da sam fir baith auxiliary verbs an lexical verbs, but can be shortened til n't wi auxiliaries. Mair aboot da idder Shaetlan negator athin wir neest posst!

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