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tInna  y  k kro

 pwgo 

 ‘You  will  have  to  do  this work’

2

3

1  4  2 3
 

Usna 

pno  pw th ‘He  had  to  read’
2-3
 

Usna 

pno 

pw

 

‘He 

has 

to 

read’

2-3-4
 

wo 

k

kr

lgo 

‘He 

started 

working’

1

2-3
 

wo 

k

lgo 

‘He 

began

 to 

say’

1

2
 
wa  ja lgi  ‘She  started  going’

2
 

wa 

ja

lg  

‘May 

she 

begin 

to 

go’

 2-3  2
 

wo 

ja

lgo 

th

‘He 

was 

about 

to 

go’

4  1  2
 

Us 

na

 ja

de 

‘Let 

him 

go’

1-2  3
 

geri 

na 

k

kr

de 

‘Let 

the 

girl 

work’

1-2  3-4
 
Us  na  sU de  ‘Let  him  listen’

1-2  3


(c) There is another type of compound verbal stem in which the first member is the imperfective participial form and the second member is /r-/ inflected. This member in this context marks the repetitive action. A few examples are :
 

wa 

k

krti 

r  

‘She 

goes 

on 

working’

1

2-3

 

(doing  work)
2
 

gero 

It 

ato 

r  

‘The 

boy 

goes 

on 

coming

here’

1

4  1   3 2
 
gerĩ u khatĩ r   ‘The  girls  go  on  eating’

breads’

2  3  3 2
 
gera  khata  réya  ‘The  boys  went  on  eating’

2  3  2
 
t k krta  ró   ‘You  go  on  doing  the  work’
2 3 4 1  4  2


(d) Besides the above types of compound verbal stems, the compound verbal stems are also formed by adding {-e} to the verbal stems occurring as first member of the compound stem and followed by /ja/ ‘go’ intensifier as second member. Examples are :
 

wo

ap

khet 

ma 

cle 

jy  tho

‘He 

was 

going  to  this  field’

7 5-6  3
 

Us 

tũ 

mewo 

khae 

jy€

th

‘The 

fruit 

was 

eaten 

by  him’

4-5  1

etc.


(e) There is another type of compound verbal stems in which /lg-w-/ constituted of two members always occur after the contingent form of the veb and this intensifier marks the progressive aspect. This progressive aspect marker /lg-w-/ take the gender-number suffixes.

 

 

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