Editing Tewa language (section)

=== Word order ===
Tewa sentences follow subject-object-verb order, however there are simple sentences in Tewa such as "{{lang|tew|handiriho gi-c'u}}" (that's how we got in) which are simply a subject and a predicate.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Naranjo |first1=George |last2=Naranjo |first2=Christine |last3=Curran |first3=Mary |last4=Speirs |first4=Randall |year=1960 |title=Tewa text |journal=Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session |volume=4 |article-number=4 |doi=10.31356/silwp.vol04.04}}</ref>

There are also many ways to say what would be translated as the same thing in English in Tewa. For example, there are three ways to say the sentence "The man and the woman are entering":{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}

{{interlinear|number=1.|abbreviations=ASSOC:associative
| sen-ná-dí       kwiyó     da-cu:de-ʔeʔe
| man-EMPH-ASSOC  woman    3:DU:STAT-enter:come
|}}

{{interlinear|number=2.|abbreviations=ASSOC:associative
| sen-ná-dí        kwiyo-wá-dí       da-cu:de-ʔeʔe
| man-EMPH-ASSOC   woman-EMPH-ASSOC  3:DU:STAT-enter:come
|}}

{{interlinear|number=3.|abbreviations=ASSOC:associative
| sen    kwiyo-wá-dí       da-cu:de-ʔeʔe
| man    woman-EMPH-ASSOC  3:DU:STAT-enter:come
|}}