/-a/
occurs with verbs ending in consonants or in vowels /i/ and //.
When it occurs after these vowels, the glide /y/ is inserted :
yók-a
‘send (a person) !’
tutet-a
‘dig up !’
puNta-a
‘jump across !’
campí-y-a
‘speak !’
si-y-a
‘tell !’
as-y-a
‘build !’
It may be mentioned here again that the classificatory vowel
/-a/ is dropped when the imperative suffix is /-a/
(cf. 1.6.)
atep
‘to paint’
tep-a
‘paint !’
atep
‘to paint’
tep-a
‘paint !’
acam
‘to drink’
cam-a
‘drink !’
4.6.
Permissive :
The permissive mood is indicated by adding /-takca/
to verbs. When this suffix is added, the classificatory prefix
is deleted as for the imperatives. /takca/
is used when the speaker requests the listener to permit
somebody. The noun referring to somebody is in the accusative
case and it cannot be second person.
panok
au-takca
‘let them come’
pá
cam-takca
‘let him drink’
ní
ó-takca
‘let me go’
lá
zlu-takca
‘let her write’
4.7.
Obligatory Mood :
The obligatory mood is expressed by adding /cla/
‘must’ after the verb, or by adding the verb /ka/ to the
infinitive.
ní
aoc
‘I have to go’
ní
aocla
‘I must go’
ná
acic
‘You have to eat’
ná
acicla
‘You must eat’
/-ka/ is from the verb /aka/ ‘have’ and it is shown by the fact
that itr has the verbal prefix and also by the fact that the
negative prefix is added to it in negative obligatory
constructions unlike with /cla/,
where the negative prefix is added to the main verb.
4.8.
Probability Mood :
The probability mood is expressed by adding /àkok/ to the verb.
Páy
mènèp
àkok
‘he may catch’
láy
àto
àkok
‘she may reach’
ipáy
àtalokc
àkok
‘It may happen’
ní
ìpáy ìnyàkc
màkok
‘I may not do this’
4.9.
Conditional :
The conditional marker is /-a/
which has a freely varying alternate /-ap/.
The classificatory prefix /a-/ is dropped here also.
/
occurs with verbs ending in consonants or in vowels /i/ and /
-y-a
nok
a
