The Negator HINDI
HINDI is generally used to negate nominal (NOM), adjectival (ADJ), and verbal (VBL) sentences. This is done by placing HINDI before the predicate,the structure being:
Negative (HINDI) + Predicate + Subject + Complement(s)
Here are some examples illustrating this structure:
| NOM | Hindi Amerikano ang bisita. | The visitor is not an American. |
| NOM | Hindi abogado ang lalaki. | The man is not a lawyer. |
| ADJ | Hindi maganda ang panahon. | The weather is not good. |
| ADJ | Hindi malayo ang bahay ko sa opisina. | My house is not far from the office. |
| VBL | Hindi umuwi si Rey kahapon. | Rey did not come home yesterday. |
| VBL | Hindi nag-aral para sa eksamen si Art. | Art did not study for the exam. |
When the subject or object or both are pronouns, they come immediately after the negator. If there are two or more pronouns, the shorter pro-form precedes the longer one(s). Otherwise, the complement(s) comes before the subject. Here are some examples:
| NOM | Hindi siya Amerikano. | He/She is not an American. |
| NOM | Hindi siya abogado. | He is not a lawyer. |
| ADJ | Hindi ito maganda. | This is not good. |
| ADJ | Hindi ito malayo sa opisina. | This is not far from the office. |
| VBL | Hindi siya umuwi kahapon. | He did not come home yesterday. |
| VBL | Hindi siya nag-aral nito. | He did not study this. |