Two main modifiers, "soti" ('a lot') and "sara" ('very; (go) right on, immediately’) play key roles in negation in Fijian, and work in conjunction with semi-auxiliary verbs". Soti" is added after negators "sega" and "‘ua~waa’ua", and functions as an intensity marker. The construction "sega soti" is translatable as ‘not a lot of, not very’. The "sega soti" construction requires an adjective (or an adverb which results from an adjective), and must take "ni" (complement clause) as its subject in order to function. "Soti" can be found in position immediately after "sega", but may also be found after the "ni" relator without changing the meaning of the phrase." "The primary construction is shown below: