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| I you
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| E you (pl)
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| U he, she, it
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| O they ……….. 7 person
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| R indicative RT negative indicative
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| S dubitative, evidential ... "I guess" presumed from evidence ST negative dubitative
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| F dubitative, hearsay ... "they say" FT negative dubitative
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| Y imperative
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| RW passive
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| SW passive evidential
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| FW passive hearsay
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| E present tense
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| O general tense
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| U future ................. NAU = "this" as when applied to a undivulged sequence of events......... UWA future particle i.e. the book that must be read ???
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| I past ................. NAI = "that" as when applied to a sequence of events ......... IYA past or passive particle ???
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| A perfect
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| UA future perfect
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| IA past perfect
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| AI simultaneous
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| AU consequential tense …… 9 tenses
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| The active verb is formed by first taking off the final vowl. Then suffixing the person to the verb, followed by the mood and then the tense. Foe example
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| TIMPA = to hit, hitting
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| TIMPIRE(TIMP + I + R + E) = You are hitting
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| Also N can be added to the end of all that to give reciprocal voice, and S for reflexive.
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| Verbs to nouns
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| SOLBE = to drink
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| SOLBELA = a drinker
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| SOLBEMA = a machine that drinks
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| SOLBO = a drink, a beverage(verbal noun representing a substancive)
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| The copula
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| This is exactly the same as the person mood tense verb tag
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| ARE = I am (I am being)
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| AURE = we are
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| IRE = you are
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| ERE = you are, you lot are, you'll is
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| AIRE = we (inc.) are
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| RE = he, she, it is ……. Note that the 'U' is left out.
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| ORE = they are
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| • … The 'O' is also left out if the noun that 'they' represent is inclused in the sentence
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| The copula has all the person, mood and tense tags that a regular verb has. Note the difference in meaning between the to tenses “E”, and “O”. They roughly correspond in function to the to verbs “estar” and “ser”. i.e.
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| ARE ill = I am sick
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| ARO ill = I am an invalid
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| Negatives
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| OMBE = to eat
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| OMBARE = I am eating
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| Any verb is negated by putting a T after the R.
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| OMBARTE = I am not eating
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| There is also a more emphatic negative. This involves putting a KA in front of the verb.
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| KA OMBARTE = I am not eating ... Notice that the T is retained.
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| This KA is used in two other verbal situations with a non-emphatic sense (see below)
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| RO HAGADI = She is beautiful
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| KA RO HAGADI = She is not beatiful
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| KA OMBE = not to eat
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| And it also turns up sentence finally as one way to ask a question.
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| Imperative
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| The imperative forms are SOLBIYA = drink, SOLBEYA = drink (to two or more people)
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| Now the way to negate a verb is to stick KI in front of it ie. KI SOLBARE = I am not drinking
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| The way to negate an imperative is to stick KYA in front of the verb. Ie
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| KYA SOLBE = don't drink, KYA SOLBE = don't drink (to two or more people)
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| KYA IRO SOLBESI = don't be inclined to drink KYA IRO SOLBEDA = don't be drunk
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| ==Index==
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| {{Seuna index}}
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