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[[Polynesian languages]] are almost devoid of inflection, and use particles extensively to indicate mood, tense, and case. Suggs,<ref name=suggs>{{cite book|last=Suggs|first=Robert C|title=The Island Civilizations of Polynesia|year=1960|publisher=[New York] New American Library|url=https://archive.org/details/islandcivilizati00sugg|url-access=registration}}</ref> discussing the deciphering of the [[rongorongo]] script of [[Easter Island]], describes them as all-important. In [[Māori language|Māori]] for example, the versatile particle "e" can signal the [[imperative mood]], the vocative case, the future tense, or the subject of a sentence formed with most passive verbs. The particle "i" signals the past imperfect tense, the object of a transitive verb or the subject of a sentence formed with "neuter verbs" (a form of passive verb), as well as the prepositions ''in'', ''at'' and ''from''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Foster|first=John|title=He Whakamarama: A Short Course in Maori}}</ref>
=== Russian ===
In [[Russian language|Russian]] particles play sometimes an important role making an additional nuance to a meaning of a phrase or of a whole sentence. One example is particle ''бы'' wich imparts conditional mood (subjunctive) to a verb it is being applyied to or to a whole setence. Another examples are ''-то'' and ''же'' wich are usually used to emphasise or accent other words. Generally there a lot of different particles in Russian of many kinds. Some of them are complex, consisting of other particles, others are as simple as one letter (''б'', ''-с'').
=== Tokelauan ===
In [[Tokelauan language|Tokelauan]], ''ia'' is used when describing personal names, month names, and nouns used to describe a collaborative group of people participating in something together.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last1=Simona|first1=Ropati|title=Tokelau Dictionary|date=1986|publisher=Office of Tokelau Affairs|___location=New Zealand|page=Introduction}}</ref> It also can be used when a verb does not directly precede a pronoun to describe said pronouns.<ref name=":0" /> Its use for pronouns is optional but mostly in this way. ''Ia'' cannot be used if the noun it is describing follows any of the prepositions ''e, o, a'', or ''ko''.<ref name=":0" /> A couple of the other ways unrelated to what is listed above that ''ia'' is used is when preceding a locative or place name.<ref name=":0" /> However, if ''ia'' is being used in this fashion, the locative or place name must be the subject of the sentence.<ref name=":0" /> Another particle in Tokelauan is ''a'', or sometimes ''ā''.<ref name=":0" /> This article is used before a person's name as well as the names of months and the particle ''a te'' is used before pronouns when these instances are following the prepositions ''i'' or ''ki''. ''Ia te'' is a particle used if following the preposition ''ma''i.<ref name=":0" />
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