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Adverb :This indicates the manner of an action being performed.
ayapa
‘nicely’
nyibyapa
‘quickly’
Time
Adverb :This indicates the time of action or the
occurrence of an event identified by the verb. In the following,
items are listed that are used to indicate temporal locations.
When they occur in combination with other items, the iitial
vowel is deleted.
aro
morning’
alo
‘day’
ali
‘evening’
ayo
‘night’
anya
‘year’
When
the temporal reference is made to that day on which speech act
takes place, then, - si ‘this’ is prefixed to the
above items, the word initial vowel of the following word is
deleted as a result of fusion of elements.
silo
'today
(this day)'
siro
'today
morning (this morning)'
sili
'today
evening (this evening)'
siyo
'today
night (this night)'
sinya
'this
year'
when
the temporal reference is to a day just previous to the day
of speech act, then 'bi' is prefixed to the above items. As
a result of the fusion, the word initial vowel is deleted.
bilo
‘yesterday (previous day)’
biro
‘last morning (previous
morning)’
bili
‘last evening (previous
evening)’
biyo
‘last night (previous night)’
binya
‘last year (previous year)’
It
is also posssible to form participial constructions like the
following :
inekun
anya
‘last year’
go-p.t.-asp.-nom. year
inekun
plo
‘last month’
go-p.t.-asp.-nom. month
When
the temporal reference is to a day just after the day of speech
act then ‘arda’ is used. Here ‘arda’
itself stands for ‘tomorrow’ and unlike the other
forms discussed just above, further specifications is made
adding them with the genitive form of ‘arda’.
But deletion of the genitive marker is optional.
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