Ouchi marks negation, commonly framing questions that expect confirmation or rejecting a preceding claim.

As a function word, it marks negation in both particle and adverb tags: it frequently frames questions whose wording expects an affirmative recognition, while some clauses use it to reject or deny what has been proposed.

1. Negative marker in questions and denials · dominant

   With both Particle and Adverb morphology tags, the form negates a clause or question rather than naming an entity or action. In John 11:9 the APB renders a question about the twelve hours of daylight, and in 1 Corinthians 9:1 it renders successive questions about freedom, apostleship, seeing Jesus, and the Corinthians as Paul's work; in Luke 1:60 and Romans 3:27 the APB renders a direct rejection with “No.”

   John 11:91 Corinthians 9:1Luke 1:60Romans 3:27Acts 5:4Matthew 6:25

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the negative particle through question forms such as “Are... not?” or “Did... not?”, and in direct replies as “No.” Individual English negatives cannot always be assigned to this term alone.