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ne hem ‘my house’
ke cimi  ‘leg nail’
ri cimun  ‘hand finger’
nechomaratum
 
 ‘my children’
 

5.
 
The noun followed or preceded by qualitative or numeral adjectives or both
mir ke-er
 
‘red flower’
 
ke-er a-mir ‘red flower’
tomo ichi ‘one story’
ichi atomo  ‘one story’
natum bahinita  ‘you both’
monit kediatum
 
‘tall men’
kedi amonit atum ‘tall men’
vo kethe keme ‘the big beautiful bird’
 
vo akethe keme ‘the big beautiful bird’
 
ilo kethe akatuy kethom ]  
ilokethom akethe katuy ] ‘three big high
kethom kethe akatuy alo ] hills’
kethom alokethe akatuy ]
 
 
la kitap pak-pho  ‘these five books’
la pakpho akitap
 
‘these five books’
 
6.
 
The noun followed or preceded by quantifier
 

hem menaan ‘many houses’

mena a-taka ‘some money’
menaan kam keklem aba ‘many workers’
kitap mena ‘some books’
kitap ali ‘any book’
monit an ‘all men’

7.
 
The noun followed by cases
     ne la -phan thek-lolo
     ‘I saw him’
 
      latum aphan tomo than-non
      ‘cut the banana with a knife’
 
      la hidi abopen damlo
     ‘he went through (the middle of) the field’
 
     ne nejirpo alo dampo
     ‘I had gone to my friend’
 
 8
 
The noun followed by postposition
 
     the pi acho vo do
     ‘the bird is on the tree’
 
     tebul a-thak arjapnon
     ‘stand on the table’
 
9
 
The noun followed by both postposition and case
 
     ne hem arlo -pen valo
     ‘I came out of the house’
 
     ne roytan -pen valo
     ‘I came from outside’
 
     la-phan -pen na corapnon
     ‘you eat with him’

 
 
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