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alyin plo ‘next month’
sisi ‘now’
pijyoda ‘then’
alo lpa ‘noon’
aji ali ‘time for going to paddy field (8.30 a.m. - 9 a.m.)’
api pica md ’time to cook rice of evening (3 p.m - 4 p.m) ’
alo apiddu ‘lunch time’
paro roe hon ‘first crowing of the cock’
paro ronye hon ‘second crowing of the cock’
Other instances of the use of temporal constructions are as in the following :
myoko pjya plo bare yepa mdu. Myoko festival month-one-adv. do-exist
‘Myoko festival lasted for onemonth’
m so loo yepa dte he here five days stay-p.t.
‘he stayed here for five days’
m pijyoda alyido he afterwards come-fut. -exist
‘he will come afterwards’
mano kamipa api dine he very late adv. rice eat-p.t.
‘he ate rice very late’
o anyi bajilyiyepa imidalyi I two hour-till-adv. sleep-exist-fut.
‘I will sleep until 2 O’clock’
m ali hi ba ho imit he evening temp. loc. slep-p.t.
‘he slept after evening’
m tala so ane he beer drink-temp. here come-p.t.
‘he came here after drinking beer’
m uyi bone lulala ine. he story one tell-temp. go-p.t.
‘he went after telling a story’
o móka alyikuyepa imitalyi I he-gen. come-temp. sleep-fut.
‘I will slep until he comes’.
m dumi mi nyibyayapa more ho ine. he Dumi acc. early-adv. forest loc. go-p.t.
‘he went to forest earlier than Dumi’
Numeral Adverb : Two-way distinction is maintained in numeral adverbs of Apatani. When the numerals indicates the number of events without counting the number in an individual action, then ‘ro’ is added as the classifier to the numeral. When the repetition of action in an event is counted ‘ú’ is added to the numeral as classifier. For instance, in a particular action like kicking, stamping, etc., if the number of kicks, etc., are counted (involved in one and the same event) then ‘ú’ is used. On the other hand if the events of kicking as instances are coated ‘ro’ is used.
 

 

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