Common Lexeme

rowéro

Keywords: prepositions, causatives, modifiers, adjectives, adverbs, relative clauses, dependent clauses

Pronunciation (IPA): ro'we.ro 
Part of Speech: modifier 
Class: preposition 
Forms: rowéro 
Glosses: because, because of 

Description:

The modifier 'rowéro' is generally used with verbs and means that the action of its reference happens because of its object, which can be an event as a nominative noun phrase, or a dependent clause.

Rowéro can directly take a dependent clause without requiring 'si'. It is often used to introduce sentence-level context-establishing clauses, and as such blurs the line between a modifier and a conjunction sometimes.

Dependendent clauses introduced with rowéro obey the general rule that the verb much go last in a dependent clause, but the rule is relaxed if the dependent clause is last in the setence, or if there is no main clause.

Rowéro-introduced phrases are one of the ways to make a periphrastic causative in Common. A causative contructed this way can be very weakyl intentional or untintentional, unless verbiage is used in the dependent clause that implies a more intentional causation.

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