| hũ
|
Ut |
ja |
s kũ |
‘Can
|
I
|
go
|
there?’
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
|
| |
|
gero
|
y
|
km
|
kr
|
leto
|
|
‘Boy
|
would
|
have
|
done
|
this
|
work’
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
1 |
|
|
4-5 |
2 |
3 |
|
| |
|
wo
|
k 
|
lgo
|
|
‘He
|
started
|
saying’
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
|
1 |
3 |
2 |
|
| |
|
hũ
|
ja
|
lgo
|
 |
|
‘I
|
am
|
about
|
to
|
go’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
1 |
4 |
3 |
|
2 |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
gero
|
ja |
lgo |
tho
|
|
‘The
|
boy
|
was
|
about
|
to
|
go’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
1 |
|
4 |
3 |
|
2 |
|
| |
|
wo
|
k r
|
jato
|
r
|
|
‘He
|
goes
|
on
|
going
|
home’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
1 |
4 |
|
3 |
2 |
|
| |
|
wo
|
kr
|
jato
|
r
|
tho
|
|
‘He
|
kept on
|
going
|
home’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
1 |
4-5 |
3 |
2 |
|
| |
|
hũ
|
jato
|
réyo
|
|
|
‘I
|
have been
|
going’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
1 |
3-4 |
2 |
|
| |
|
hũ
|
jato
|
rũ
|
|
|
‘I
|
keep on
|
going’
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
1 |
3-4 |
2 |
|
| |
|
wo
|
ap€
|
khet
|
ma
|
cle
|
|
‘He
|
was
|
going
|
to
|
his
|
field’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
1 |
7 |
5-7 |
|
2 |
3-4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
jy€
|
tho
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6
|
7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
merā
|
dũ
|
km
|
kIyo
|
jy€ |
|
‘The |
work |
is |
done |
by |
me’ |
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
|
3 |
|
4-5 |
2 |
1 |
|
|
Verb phrase formed by /a -/
|
|
/a-/
which occurs in the formation of nouns also occurs with infinitive oblique
verbal form and it agrees in gender-number with the subject of the sentence. This form can take
the tense auxiliaries. The whole phrase so formed marks futurity and
incompletion of the action. The differences between the phrase with
present tense auxiliary and past tense auxiliary is that one is proximate
and the other is remote.
Examples are :
|
|
wo
|
ja
|
ao
|
|
|
‘He
|
is
|
about
|
to
|
go’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
1 |
4 |
3 |
|
2 |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
wa
|
ja
|
ai
|
thi
|
|
‘She
|
was
|
about
|
to
|
go’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
1 |
4 |
3 |
|
2 |
|
| |
we
|
ja
|
ai |
thi
|
|
‘They(fem)
|
were
|
about
|
to
|
go’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
1 |
4 |
3 |
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
All the verb phrases can be expanded with negative particle and other
adverbs and adverb phrases. All the verbs can be distributed on the basis
of the three negation markers, /na/, /nĩ/
and /ní/.
/nĩ/
and /ní/
occurs freely but /na/ negates only imperative verbs. Present tense form
is optionally dropped when negative marker /nĩ/
or /ní/
occurs. And certain verbal form such as contingent and future form do not
occur with the negative marker rather their alternative forms occur in the
negative sentences: Examples are :
|
|
|
| |
|
Isna
|
na
|
kh a
|
‘Don’t
|
make
|
him
|
play’
|
|
1
|
2
|
3 |
4 |
3 |
1-2 |
4 |
|
