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wo	rat	toi	It	tho	‘He	was	here	uptil	night’
1	2	3	4	5	1	5	4	3	2

wo	ek	kta	ma	ayo	‘He	came	with	in	an	hour’
1	2	3	4	5	1	5		4	2	3

wa	bea	wr	ní	ai	‘She	did	not	come	in	time’
1	2	3	4	5	1		4	5	3	2

hũ	axIr	wr	ayo	‘I	came	last’
1	2	3	4	1	4	2-3

(iv) Adverbials such as /pIcch€/, /plã/, /ndr/ when follows the nominal phrase of time with or without the postposition /dũ/ denote the temporal adverb phrase.

Examples are :

car	bjã	dũ	pIcch€	‘after	four	o’clock’
1	2	3	4	3-4	1	2

ek	kta	ndr	‘with	in	an	hour’
1	2	3		3	1	2

ek	kta	dũ	ndr	‘with in	an	hour’
1	2	3	4	3-4	1	2

ek	bja	dũ	pEÛlã	‘before	one	o’clock’
1	2	3	4	3-4	1	2

As in

car	bja	dũ	pIcch€	aIye	‘(Please)	come	after	four	o’clock’
1	2	3	4	5		5	3-4	1	2

Us	n€	ek	ka	ndr	‘He	finished	the	work
1	2	3	4	5	1-2	7		6
km	mUkayo				within	an	hour’
6	7				5	3	4

wo	ek	bja	dũ	plã	It	‘He	reached	here	before
1	2	3	4	5	6	1	7	6	4-5
pcyo						one	o’clock’
7						2	3

4.1.2.3.

Adverb Phrases of Manner :

Manner adverbial phrases are formed variously in the language such as by adding the postposition /na/ to an adverb or an infinitival oblique form or a noun phrase; by adding /g€/ adverbial to the verbal base form which also marks the penultimate action in the sentence and also by /trá/ or /rá/ after the noun phrases.

A few examples are given below :

jor	na	‘loudly,	with	force’
1	2		2	1

kr	na	‘by	doing’
1	2	2	1

trika	na	‘in	order’
1	2	2	1

^hr	g€	‘slowly,	by	stopping’
1	2		2	1

ţk	g€	‘by	covering’
1	2	2	1

Ise	trá
1	2

Is	rá	‘like	this’
1	2	2	1

As in

wo	jor	na	bol€		‘He	speaks	loudly/with	force’
1	2	3	4	5	1	4-5	2-3

wo	km	kr	na	mir	‘He	became	rich	by
1	1	2	3	4	1	6	5	4
hoyo					dint	of	work’
6							2

^hr

g€

bol

‘Speak

slowly/

stopping

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