| 7.9.8.Third Person Non-masculine Plural |
Third person non-masculine plural has two allomorphs. -a:  -u:
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-u: occurs after the future tense and durative suffix.
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inda:n-u: |
‘they will say’ |
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manda:n-u: |
‘they will live’ |
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pan a:n-u: |
‘they will make’ |
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a:ya:n-u: |
‘they will become’ |
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una:n-u: |
‘they will drink’ |
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pe:la:n-u: |
‘they will defecate’ |
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tintor-u: |
‘they were eating’ |
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| -a: occurs elewhere. |
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ti:hint-a: |
‘they eat’ |
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titt-a: |
‘they ate’ |
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tind-a: |
‘they used to eat’ |
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| Before the negative suffix -o:, the initial vowel of the suffix is dropped. |
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tinno:- |
‘they do not eat’ |
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inno:- |
‘they do not say’ |
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a:yo:- |
‘they do not become’ |
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wa:wo:- |
‘they do not come’ |
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ke:yo:- |
‘they do not call’ |
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| 7.10. Uninflected Forms |
| 7.10.1. Adverbial Participle |
| 7.10.1.1. Present |
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Present adverbial participles are formed by adding -cok to the verb stem which indicate the completion of an action and give the meanings of ‘saying, eating’, etc. The suffix has two phonologically conditioned allomorphs -jok and -sok.
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