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Questions

Oftentimes a yes-or-no question can be expressed in Romániço simply by raising the pitch of one’s voice at the end of a sentence:

Mea patro combatin en la Clonisca Gueros? My father fought in the Clone Wars?
Vi credan che plaçan ad mi eviter mea sponsiso et filios por pasifer témporo cum deci-non-anuisos omni-die? You think I like avoiding my wife and kids to hang out with nineteen year old girls every day?

Depending on the speech habits of the speakers involved, this might not be a reliable means of asking a yes-or-no question. A better way is to use chi (“whether”), which introduces direct and indirect questions:

Chi mea patro combatin en la Clonisca Gueros? Did my father fight in the Clone Wars?
Chi vi credan che plaçan ad mi eviter mea sponsiso et filios por pasifer témporo cum deci-non-anuisos omni-die? Do you think I like avoiding my wife and kids to hang out with nineteen year old girls every day?
Mi dúbitan chi mea patro combatin en la Clonisca Gueros. I doubt whether my father fought in the Clone Wars.
Mi cuestionan ad mi chi vi credan che plaçan ad mi eviter mea sponsiso et filios por pasifer témporo cum deci-non-anuisos omni-die. I wonder if you think I like avoiding my wife and kids to hang out with nineteen year old girls every day.

For direct questions, one can also put the verb before the subject:

Combatin mea patro en la Clonisca Gueros? My father fought in the Clone Wars?
Credan vi che plaçan ad mi eviter mea sponsiso et filios por pasifer témporo cum deci-non-anuisos omni-die? You think I like avoiding my wife and kids to hang out with nineteen year old girls every day?

Other sorts of questions, those asking “who”, “what”, “where”, “when”, etc., are introduced by the appropriate question word. One should bear in mind that, in Romániço, the subject of the sentence (the person or thing performing the sentence’s action) is whatever person or thing that most closely precedes the verb:

Cua amorebun mi nun? Who could love me now?
Cua mi amorebun nun? Whom could I love now?
Cua coloro es la celo en vua mundo? What color is the sky in your world?
Precise cuo vi credan che vi façan, Davucio? Just what do you think you’re doing, Dave?
Retrovades ad deube vi venin! Get back whence you came!
Li vinçun, cua sapan cuande li potan batalier et cuande no. He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.