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29.	tasa?t	etan-re	alo-pe	apadea
	grass	up-case	not-PT	step

‘Don’t step on the grass’

6.2.5.

Emphatic sentences are formed with the emphatic marker - ge. The subject is not normal subject but something different.

30.	i - ge	muo
	this-empho.	Munda

‘This one is the only chief’.

31.	i - ge	ia - hatu-ren	olta?t	h
	this-emph.	this-village-case	educated	man

‘This one is the only educated person in this village’

6.3.

Word Order :

6.3.1.

The normal word order in Bhumij is subject+object+verb. This may be seen in the following simple sentences.

1.	aiŋ	ha-ke	lel - l-i - a - iŋ
	I	man-case	see-past-cop-PT

‘I saw a man’

2.	a?e	sadma-ke	au - l - i - a - ?e
	he	horse-case	bring-past-cop-PT

‘He brought a horse’

3.	aiŋ	moyon	bi	ol - l - a - iŋ
	I	one	book	write-past-cop-PT

‘I wrote a book’

4.	am	bia	ol - l - a - m
	you	book	write-past-cop-PT

‘You wrote a book’

5.	iŋ	a haia-ke	om - l - iŋ
	I	fish-case	eat-past-PT

‘I ate a fish’

6.3.2.

A complex sentence may have more than one clause. Of these, one may be main clause and others may be subordinate clauses. The subordinate clause occurs in the sentence initial position and the main clause follows it. This may be seen in the following sentences :

6.	sunam	alakgireo	ia	¸jata?-kako	manatiŋa
	Sunam	intelligent-though	it	any	nobody	admit

‘Though Sunam is intelligent, no one will admit it’.

7.	ra:ja	hko-te	landalen-rereo	a?e	jari-idila?e
	king	people-case	laugh-though	he rule	continued

‘Though the king was laughed at by the people, he continued to rule’

8.	hatu - tea	buru - ga	ko - yo - lel - re	isu	rasika - ge
	village-case	mountain-pl-also-see	case	very	happy-emph

howa

feel

‘They feel very happy when they seee the mountain from the village’

6.3.3.

When there are both direct and indirect objects in a sentence, direct object precedes indirect object. Further, the indirect object is marked with case but not the direct object. This may be seen in the following sentences :

9.	gomi	datruma omi-ke	oma - l-i - a
	Gomy	sickle	Domy-case	give-past-cop

‘Gomy gave the sickle to Domy’

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