ua-

negative verb “not do, not be”. If a verb is to be negated, ua coming before the verb receives any pronominal endings and presumably also any endings for plurality or duality, -r or -t, whereas the uninflected tense-stem of the verb follows: With the ending -n for “I”, one can thus have constructions like uan carë *”I do not” aorist, uan carnë *“I did not” past, uan cára *“I am not doing” present, uan caruva *”I shall not do” future. The verb ua- can itself be fully conjugated: \#ua aorist or present?, únë past, úva “future, \#uië perfect the aorist and perfect are attested only with the ending -n “I”. In “archaic Quenya” these tense-forms could be combined with an uninflected aorist stem, e.g. future *úvan carë = later Quenya uan caruva, “I shall not do”. In later Quenya, only the forms ua present or aorist and “occasionally” the past tense form \#únë were used in normal prose únen *”I did not, was not”. PE17:144; compare FS for úva as a future-tense negative verb “will not”