Nothing here is adopted. This page measures what the material actually does, sets out the three answers and what each would cost, and leaves the decision to the founder.
It matters more than its size suggests: kadang is one of only two roots in the dictionary that cannot be written at all, because any sentence using it would settle this question by accident.
The record said one thing and the corpus says another
adverbs.md records that daima and kadang “sit in the adverb slot with everything else”. Counted on September 4, 2026 across the lessons, the texts, the grammar files and the phrasebook, two of thirteen do.
| Position | Uses | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| before the verb | 5 | Mualim daima kara libro · Ta kadang lai · Mi kadang go in tren |
| the adverb slot | 2 | Mi kula daima pan · Anak proba daima |
| after the object | 6 | Mi nomu halib daima · Mi ingat yu daima · Anak-anak kula telur kadang |
Thirteen sentences, three positions, and one lesson — Lesson 19 — uses all three by itself. Nobody chose this; the hand followed whichever source language it was thinking in.
One of the six depends on a question that is also open: Kita rabota daima in skola counts as “after the object” only because rabota is a noun in the dictionary. Read it as a verb and that sentence moves into the adverb slot. Two open questions touching one sentence is worth knowing before either is answered.
The three answers, costed
| Rule | Sentences to rewrite | Argument for | Argument against | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | the adverb slot: Mi kula daima pan | 11 of 13 | one rule for every adverb; adverbs.md already says so | the most rewriting, and it puts the commonest use — the bare Ta kadang lai — in the position it is least often written |
| B | before the verb, where the tense markers stand: Ta kadang lai | 8 of 13 | frequency is about time, and daima kara would sit where suda kara sits | a second word before the verb, so the order of no, suda and daima has to be settled too |
| C | last in the sentence, like tena: Mi nomu halib daima | 7 of 13 | cheapest, and it matches the one neighbour that has already settled itself | the tail of a sentence is where place and time already go, and a fourth thing there is a crowd |
tena settled itself and nobody noticed
tena, “again”, is not a frequency word — it counts repetitions rather than naming a rate — but it is the nearest neighbour in the dictionary and it has been consistent from the start: 32 of its 32 uses are last in the sentence, without one exception. Mi lai tena, Anak katab tena, Yamur no lai tena, Din lai tena.
No rule ever granted that. The writing simply never wavered, which is the opposite of what happened with daima, and it is the strongest evidence available for answer C — the language has already been doing it with the word next door.
What is measured and what is judgement
Measured: the thirteen sentences and their three positions, the cost of each
answer, and tena’s 32 of 32 — check.py recounts all of them,
so this page cannot drift the way adverbs.md did.
That sentence was not true when it was written. The three positions and tena were recounted; the total and the three costs were prose, and a cost is the whole point of the page — each answer’s price is every sentence that is not already standing where it would put them. All five figures are computed from the corpus as of September 5, 2026. They were right, which is luck: the last three days moved insan genc through Lesson 25 and rewrote five contrast sentences, and any of that could have touched one.
Judgement, and the founder’s: which position, whether daima and kadang behave alike, and whether tena is bound by the same answer or stays a separate thing that happens to sit in the same place.