title_body: Do we know languages which think about subordinate conjunctions (like 'as,' 'even,' 'while') differently than English does? for my conlang, I am trying to think of how to do the subordinating conjunction 'as,' 'even,' 'while' (and related: 'even though,' etc.).
  In the languages that I know well enough to use these words (English, Spanish, and Turkish), they are separate words. I wonder, do we know languages which use other constructions for 'as,' 'even,' 'while,' other than with a separate word linking two clauses?
  Example:
  We ate as we ran.
  I have covered quite a lot of grammar so far with systems of agglutinating clitics and affixes, so I'm trying to get my mind around how 'as,' 'even,' 'while,' could be handled without separate words. I guess I could just have like a &quot;simultaneity clitic&quot; for 'while' like I have a &quot;conditional clitic&quot; for 'would'...?
  This has been difficult for me to conceptualize quietly in my head, so I really appreciate input and discussion :)
upvoted_answer: In Inuit languages, there are no separate subordinating conjunctions. In Inuktitut, you identify the subordinate clause by an affix that indicates a conjunction.
  For example, take the sentence &quot;While Mary was eating, John was walking.&quot; In some Inuktitut dialects, you'd only indicate time tense for the superordinate phrase (&quot;John was walking&quot;), while the subordinate verb wouldn't have a tense marker, but instead use the conjunctive affix -tillu- (with the appropriate person marker)
  
  Mary niri-tillugu John pisu-lauq-tuq (Mary eat-CONJ.3s John walk-Past-Part.3s)
  
  It obviously gets a lot more complicated, but that gives one example of how to do it. If English had a similar setup, you might see something like this:
  
  Mary eat John walked.
  
  If, on the other hand, you wanted to relate them serially (Mary ate then John walked), you might see this sort of construction:
  
  Mary ate John walked.
  
  And you'd obviously reverse them for the other sequence, so &quot;John walked Mary ate.&quot;
  Obviously it would have to get more sophisticated, but you get the idea.