Orders are characterized by sets of specific endings. There are three orders in Innu, as in other Algonquian languages: the Independent Order, used mainly for independent clauses and which has personal prefixes for the first and second persons; the Conjunct Order, without personal prefixes and with a different set of endings, used for subordinate or linked clauses; and the Imperative Order, with its own endings, used to give orders or instructions to the second persons.