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  <small>it's the dog the man sees</small>
  <small>it's the dog the man sees</small>


The other elements in the sentence are usually placed in the order “''place-manner-cause-time''”, although they are basically freer than the main elements. An object in the dative case, when conveying the indirect object, tends to be placed ''before'' the direct object of the sentence.
The other elements in the sentence are usually placed in the order “''time-cause-manner-place''”, although they are basically freer than the main elements, as they are conveyed by the case system or by the prepositions. These elements can be emphasized by placing them at the beginning of the sentence. The indirect object tends to be placed ''after'' the direct object of the sentence.
 
A peculiar feature is the verbal ''infinitival agreement'': when infinitival forms, as nominal forms of the verbs, take a direct object, are regarded as an expression of belonging, and the direct object is declined in the ''genitive'' case.
 
sobaɕu līločem īsow
<small>I do not see the dog.</small>
 
The frequency of this feature, however, is already declining in the classical period, when the infinitival forms are used in a verbal costruction (as, for example, with modal verbs). The infinitival agreement is still widely used up to the later classical period when these forms are used in a nominal construction.
 
Moreover, as it can been seen in the example above, when an infinitival form is governed by a modal verb or by the negative verb īsem, the infinitive is always placed before the conjugated modal form.

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Main article: Modern Figo

This page gives an extensive description of modern Figo syntactical features.

Main clause and word order

Modern Figo is an almost strictly SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) language. 

řirur soba řirušjid wẽh 
the man sees the dog

The case system, which clearly distinguishes between the subject and the direct object, allows every other possible word order to some extent, but most of them prove to be very marked and infrequently used. However, the direct object can be emphasized by placing it at the beginning of the sentence. 

soba řirur řirušjid wẽh
it's the dog the man sees

The other elements in the sentence are usually placed in the order “time-cause-manner-place”, although they are basically freer than the main elements, as they are conveyed by the case system or by the prepositions. These elements can be emphasized by placing them at the beginning of the sentence. The indirect object tends to be placed after the direct object of the sentence.

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