# Where to put the -ne interrogative particle

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**Created:** [July 20, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/where-to-put-the-ne-interrogative-particle/30791 "2025-07-20T20:38:12Z")\
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When asking a question with -ne, where does it go? I mean to ask which word should it be added to? And can anyone give some examples?

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**Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/where-to-put-the-ne-interrogative-particle/30791/2 "2025-07-22T17:54:31Z")

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[L&S](https://logeion.uchicago.edu/ne) (scroll down) has:

> _ **interrog.** _ and _ **enclit. part.** _ [weakened from nē]. It simply inquires, without implying either that a negative or an affirmative reply is expected (cf. num, nonne), and emphasizes the word to which it is joined; which is always, in classic Latin, the first word of the clause (ante- class. after other words: sine dote uxoremne? Plaut. _Trin._ 2, 2, 94 (369); 1, 2, 141 (179); id. _As._ 5, 2, 78 (928); id. _Mil._ 3, 1, 92 (687)).