Editing Modal verb (section)

===Hawaiian Pidgin===

[[Hawaiian Pidgin]] is a [[creole language]] most of whose vocabulary, but not grammar, is drawn from English.  As is generally the case with creole languages, it is an [[isolating language]] and modality is typically indicated by the use of invariant pre-verbal auxiliaries.<ref>Sakoda, Kent, and Jeff Siegel, ''Pidgin Grammar'', Bess Press, 2003.</ref> The invariance of the modal auxiliaries to person, number, and tense makes them analogous to modal auxiliaries in English. However, as in most creoles the main verbs are also invariant; the auxiliaries are distinguished by their use in combination with (followed by) a main verb.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

There are various preverbal modal auxiliaries: ''Kaen'' "can", ''laik'' "want to", ''gata'' "have got to", ''haeftu'' "have to", ''baeta'' "had better", ''sapostu'' "am/is/are supposed to".  Unlike in Germanic languages, tense markers are used, albeit infrequently, before modals: ''Gon kaen kam'' "is going to be able to come".  ''Waz'' "was" can indicate past tense before the future/volitional marker ''gon'' and the modal ''sapostu'': ''Ai waz gon lift weits'' "I was gonna lift weights"; ''Ai waz sapostu go'' "I was supposed to go".{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}