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do ‘(i) lie (as a regular verb),
(ii) used as an existential verb,
(iii) added as a classifier to indicate medium size animals,
(iv) added to indicate progressive aspect’
na ‘added to indicate the willingness’
nan ‘added to verb to form instrumental nouns’
n ‘added to verb to form infinitives’
n ‘(i) feminine gender marker,
(ii) what (as a pronoun),
(iii) added to verb to form agent nouns’
nu ‘used as plural marker (I and II persons)’
ne ‘used as non-proximal past marker’
nedo  ‘added to the verb to indicate the possibility of  occurence of an action’
nya ‘used as an emphatic marker’
nyi ‘(i) used as conjoined marker when two    (only two) nouns are conjoined,
(ii) two (numeral)’
nyo ‘(i) used as an adjective that occurs with the classifier to express the meaning ‘small’,
(ii) added to express habitual action’
pa ‘(i) used as purposive case sign,
(ii) used as adverb marker,
(iii) added to verb to indicate that the action is performed to remind somebody’
p (i) added to the verb to indicate that the action is done to avoid someone or something,
(ii) added to the verb to indicate that the  action is done to insult someone’
p ‘added to indicate that the action is done to get rid of someone/something’
p ‘added to indicate that the action is continued’
p ‘used as a numeral ‘four’
pu ‘(i) used as a classifier to indicate that the  objects referred are round objects,
(ii) added to the verb to indicate that the action is done in a wrong way unknowingly’
pe  ‘(i) added to the verb to form imperatives for asking for the speaker himself,
(ii) added to verb to form ‘requests’,
(iii) used as a numeral ‘four’,
(iv) used as a classifier with - ude ‘house’agu ‘stanza’, etc.’
 

 

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