| 7.5. Auxiliary Verbs |
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There are a few auxiliary verbs in Abujhmaria which are also used in combination with other verbs to express tense or mood of the action denoted by the main verb.
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These auxiliaries are:
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manda:na: |
‘to be, to live’ |
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a:ya:na: |
‘to become’ |
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parya:na: |
‘to be able’ |
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hi:na: |
‘to give’ |
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ki:na: |
‘to do’ |
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The auxiliary verbs are inflected for the tense and mood according to the general pattern of verb inflection.
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| 7.6. Negative Verb |
There is a basic verb il(le:)  hil(le:) which indicates negation giving the meaning of ‘to be not’. It is inflected for all persons and singular and plural numbers. The full paradigm of the negative verb is as follows:
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Singular |
Plural |
| I |
illo:n |
illo:m |
| II |
ilwi: |
ilwi:r |
| III Masc. |
illo:r |
illo:r |
| III Non-masc. |
illa: |
illa: |
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This negative verb occurs in complementation with the auxiliary verb man- ‘to be’ which lacks a formally related stem man-e:- in the negative paradigm.
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| Examples: |
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wo:r lo:te: manto:r |
‘he is at home’ |
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wo:r lo:te: hile:r |
‘he is not at home’ |
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| 7.6.1. The negative forms of the auxiliary verb a:ya:na ‘to become’ and manda:na: ‘to live, to be’ are also used to denote simple negative and they are inflected for gender and number. |
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nan pe:ka: a:yo:n |
‘I am not a boy’ |
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wo:r pe:ko:r a:yo:r |
‘he is not a boy’ |
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ad pila a:yo: |
‘it is not a girl’ |
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aw  ikam a:yo: |
‘they are not good’ |
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aw ikam mano: |
‘they are not good’ |
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ad gatli na:k ikam mano: |
‘that cloth is not suitable to me’ |
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