English and Navajo/Contrastive Grammar
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NAV-ENG Tests
Determiners
- Navajo has no equivalent determiner to English's "the" or "a"
Postpositions
- Navajo has a wide array of postpositions, also applying possessive inflection on them
Pronouns
- Pronouns are often excluded in Navajo, appearing only as morphemes within the verb
Verb placement
- Verbs always appear at the end of the sentence in Navajo
Future Verb mode
- Unlike English, which conveys the future tense with an auxilliary "will," Navajo encodes this information in the verb, having a slightly different stem and set of subject prefixes for the verb.