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The following are some of the current established expressions that Hisyëans use
in day-to-day conversation:
- %%voxo@voxo%% (*vah*-shah) (shoot!) (woah!)
- %%küu@küu%% %%lö@lö%% %%ü@ü%% %%ni@ni%% %%löicök@löicök%% (mah *koo*-wuh loh *loy*-choke) (Let's go!)
- %%gö@gö%% %%zık@zık%% %%ü@ü%% %%nimü@nimü%% (goh jick oo *nee*-moh) (How are you doing?)
- %%küu@küu%% %%lö@lö%% %%ü@ü%% %%ni@ni%% %%löicök@löicök%% (*koo*-wuh loh oo nee *loy*-choke) (Let's go!)
- %%gö@gö%% %%zık@zık%% %%ü@ü%% %%nimü@nimü%% (goh jick oo *nee*-moo) (How are you doing?)
- %%yök@yök%% %%sonkon@sonkon%% %%ü@ü%% %%ulyö@ulyö%% (yoke *san*-kan oo *uhl*-yoh) (It doesn't matter.)
- ...%%ci@ci%% (chee) (...agree?)
- %%löicök@löicök%% (*loy*-choke) (definitely!)
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## Talk The Clock

If you know how to count to 12, you can talk about hours; if you know how to
count to 60, then you can talk about minutes and seconds. To ask the time, you
use the copula with a null subject. The complement uses the interrogative
pronoun, so there is no need for a sentence ender.

<Tabs groupId="popöun-zıkto">
<TabItem value="latin" label="Latin" default>
%%woküt@woküt%% %%zık@zık%%
</TabItem>
<TabItem value="opügido" label="ɽʋʄꜿɟʌ">
%%ʒɔ̆ʄ@woküt%% %%ⱴ̑ȷ@zık%%
</TabItem>
</Tabs>

That's a complete sentence because the verb is actually a noun being used as a
verb which is interpreted as a [zero
copula](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula) sentence. The subject in this
sentence is not provided, these are called
[null-subject](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-subject_language) sentences.
Whenever this happens, you have to interpret the subject from either the current
sentence or from preceding sentences. In some cases, this ends up being "it" or
"there" in English. In other cases, it ends up being the prior sentence's
subject. Here, the English backtranslation would be "It is what time?".

### Durations

### Exact Times
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