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tayu-me
stay-PT
‘Go to your room and stay there’

5. gaa-rea

da?a
river-case water
‘water of the river’

6. maraŋ

daru-rea

da:a
big tree-case branch
‘The branch of the big tree’

7. gaa-rea

diri
river-case  stone
‘the stone of the river’

8. daru-rea
 
gonaŋ
tree-case price
‘the price of the tree’

9. daru-ren

¸e-ko
tree-case  bird-pl.
‘the birds of the tree’

10. hatu-ren

ho-ko
village-case  man-pl.
‘The people of the village’

11. gaa-ren

hai-ko
river-case fish-Pl.
‘The fishes of the river’

12. maraŋ

bir-ren

jontu-ko
big  forest-case animal-pl.
‘The animals of the big forest’

4.1.8. 

Additives


Additive is a kind of coordinate construction without coordinate marker. A kind of coordinate construction which is endocentric, where the attribute modified the head is known as attributive construction. In Bhumij, the head follows the attribute. This may be seen in the following examples :

 
 
e  h ‘this man’
this man  

en

sadm

‘that horse’
that horse  

moyon

bi

‘one book’
one book  

saŋgi

 baba

‘more paddy’
more paddy  

huiŋ

 hon

‘small child’
small child  

hupuiŋ

hon-ko

‘small children’
small-small  child-pl  

maraŋ

 daru

‘big tree’
big tree  

maparaŋ

daru-ko

‘big trees’
big-big  tree-pl  

sagua

sono

’blue shirt’
blue shirt  

moyon

sagua

sono

‘one blue shirt’
one blue shirt  

bugin

olkuihon

 ‘good student’
good student  

besaiŋ

bugin

olkuihon

‘very good student’
very
good
student
 
moyon besaiŋ
bugin

olkuihon
 ‘a very good student’
one       very  good student  
 
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