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Allative :

 

               ní pá-tai senpuu yok                                        ‘I sent him five rupees’
               I he-to money-five sent
              
               páy doctor-tai àó                                         ‘he goes to the doctor’
               he doctor-to goes
               ayo-i wó                                                      ‘go to the river’
               river-to go (imp)
               sentep-i wó                                                   ‘go to the church’
               church-to go (imp)
Locative : 
                áz-tak                                                         ‘in the dog’
                dog-in/at
                lá office-ta liye                                           ‘she is in the office’
                panok tuli-nu liye                                      ‘they are away in Tuli’
                they Tuli-in are
 
     Some examples for each class of nouns with different gender markers are given below. The gender markers /-pá/ and /-lá/ are added to masculine and feminine human nouns respectively. These gender markers are same as the third person masculine and faminine pronouns respectively.
 

           Human

            Masculine

          Feminine

     
àóye ‘thief’ àóye ‘male thief’ àóye ‘female thief’
insue ‘blacksmith’ insuepá ‘male blacksmith’ inue ‘female blacksmith’
ssa ‘dancer’ ssa ‘male dancer’ ssa ‘female dancer’
kanten  ‘singer’ kantenpá ‘male singer’ kantenlá ‘female singer’
     The proper nouns also carry gender markers /-pá/ and /-lá / for masculine and feminine names respectively.
penta ‘Bendangba’
   
cupanu ‘Chubanungba’
   
amenlá ‘Amenla’
   
naolá ‘Narola’
    
     With some human nouns the masculine gender marker is /-sa/ and not /pá /. But the feminine gender marker is /-lá /.

           Human

                 Masculine

            Feminine

           
kiyim ‘marriage’ kiyimsa ‘bridegroom’ kiyimlá ‘bride’
azmesen ‘lazy’ azmesensa ‘lazy man’ azmesenlá ‘lazy woman’
alá ‘slave’ alásaN ‘male slave’ alá ‘female slave’
  2.2.3. Number :
 
     There are two numbers in Ao : Singular and Plural. But the number is also not grammatically significant like gender, in the sense that it is not relevant for subject-predicate concordance etc. The number is thus not marked in the verb or adjective. The plural marker is /-tem/ which is added to the singular noun which is unmarked. The number marker follows the gender marker, if there is one.
    
tepusa ‘brother’ tapusatem ‘brothers’
       
nisó ‘person’ nisótem ‘persons, people’
       
áz ‘dog’ áztem ‘dogs’
       
‘house’ kítem ‘houses’
       
pak ‘rock’ paktem ‘rocks’
       
ipá ‘it’ item ‘they (non-hum)’
 
 

 

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