verbal forms.
{-o} marks masculine as well as singular {-a} masculine as well as plural
and {-i} marks feminine singular and {-ĩ}
marks feminine plural. These are the closing suffixes in the verbs and
which are demonstrated through the concordance in the following verbal
forms:
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(i) Infinitives
|
|
Us
|
n€
|
kItab
|
p  ni
|
|
|
‘He
|
has
|
to
|
read
|
the
|
book’
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
1 |
4 |
|
3 |
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Us
|
n€
|
km
|
kr o
|
|
‘He
|
has
|
to
|
work’
|
|
1
|
2
|
3 |
4 |
5 |
1-2 |
5 |
4 |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Us
|
n€
|
jyad€
|
km |
kra
|
|
(mas.pl.)
|
‘He
|
has
|
to
|
do
|
many
|
works’
|
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4 |
5 |
6
|
|
1 |
6 |
|
5 |
3 |
4 |
|
| |
|
Us
|
n€
|
jyad€
|
kItab |
pnĩ
|
‘He
|
has
|
to
|
read
|
many
|
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
1-2
|
6
|
|
5
|
3 |
|
(fem.pl.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
books’
|
|
4
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4 |
|
(ii) Future
|
|
hũ
|
buţo
|
kppũgo
|
‘I
|
shall cut
|
the
|
tree’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
| hũ
|
buţo |
kppũgi
|
‘I
|
shall cut
|
the
|
tree’
|
| 1 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
hm
|
buţo |
kppãga
|
‘We
|
shall cut
|
the
|
tree’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
hm
|
buţo |
kppãgĩ |
‘We
|
shall cut
|
the
|
tree’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
(iii) Perfective and Past tense auxiliary
|
|
gero
|
It
|
ayo
|
tho
|
(mas.sg.)
|
‘The
|
boy
|
had
|
come
|
here’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
|
1 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
gera
|
n€
|
gUlas
|
pnyo
|
tho
|
‘The
|
boy
|
had
|
broken
|
the
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
1-2 |
5 |
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
gera
|
n€
|
gUlas
|
pnya
|
‘The
|
boy
|
had
|
broken
|
the
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
1-2 |
5 |
4 |
|
|
|
tha
(mas.pl.)
|
glasses’
|
|
5
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
geri
|
ţ  hi
|
thi
(fem.sg.)
|
‘The
|
girl
|
had
|
fallen’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
|
1 |
3 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
gerĩ
|
ţhĩ
|
thĩ (fem.pl.)
|
‘The
|
girls
|
had
|
fallen’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
|
1 |
3 |
2 |
|
|
(iv) Imperfective participles:
|
|
wo
|
hU
|
ní
|
ato (mas.sg.)
|
‘He
|
does
|
not
|
come
|
now’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
3 |
|
4 |
3-4 |
|
|
|
|
je
|
we
|
ata (mas.pl.)
|
‘(If)
|
they
|
had
|
come’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
wa
|
Is
|
km
|
na
|
krti
|
‘(If)
|
she
|
would
|
have
|
done
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
1 |
|
5 |
|
|
|
(fem.sg.)
|
this |
work-’
|
|
2
|
3-4 |
|
|
|
|
we
|
gerĩ
|
km
|
krtĩ
|
‘(If)
|
they (fem.)
|
would
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
(fem.pl.)
|
have
|
done
|
the
|
work-’
|
|
4 |
|
|
3 |
|
|
2. Number:
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|
There are two numbers: singular and plural in the language exhibited in
the nominals and verbal forms.
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