About the particle; pure and functional; interrogative particles

Interrogative particles give a sentence the meaning of a question or a surprised question: -mi, -chi, -a (-ya). The most common is -mi; it forms an ordinary question: Uy vazifasini bajardingmi? (Did you do your homework?) -chi shifts the previous question to another person or thing, and sometimes expresses a request: Men tayyorman, sen-chi? (I am ready, and you?); Ayt-chi (Tell me, then). -a (-ya) shows asking with surprise or expecting agreement: Ulgurding-a? (You made it in time, did you?) In spelling, -mi is joined to the word, while -chi and -a (-ya) are separated from the word by a hyphen: keldingmi, sen-chi, bilasan-a.