|
vo a-ve ko
hini do
|
|
‘a bird has two legs’
|
|
|
monit a-mek hini do
|
|
‘a man has two eyes’
|
|
|
na hem do
|
|
‘you have a house’
|
|
|
|
na hem ave
|
|
‘you do not have a house’
|
|
The locative case expresses the
location of a person, animal or thing in space or time. It is
sometimes marked with -lo
|
|
ne dakchi do |
|
‘I am here’ |
|
|
diphuchi bojar do |
|
‘there is a market in Diphu’ |
|
|
baji kethomchi neli hem
damji |
|
‘I shall go home at
three O’clock’
|
| ne-lo |
‘in me’ |
| natum
alo |
‘in you (Pl.)’ |
| hem (alo
) |
‘in the house’ |
| cayno
alo |
‘in the cow’ |
| diphu alo |
‘in Diphu’ |
|
| The allative case
indicates the direction or location or goal to which the motion
mentioned by the verb is performed. Only the human and animate
nouns are marked with -lo. |
|
ne hem damlo |
|
‘I went home’ |
|
skul damnon |
|
'go to school’ |
|
|
ne nejirpo alo
dampo
|
|
‘I had gone to my
friend’
|
|
|
kekatpenchi alali
ne-lo keva |
|
‘he came to me running’
|
The ablative is
the case of separation from the source in performing the action
mentioned by the ever. It is expressed by suffixing -pen
or -lopen to
the source noun.
|
|
ne bojar pen ok
nam ] |
|
ne bojar alopen
ok nam ] |
|
‘I buy fish from the
market’ |
|
|
skul -pen vanon |
|
‘come from school’ |
|
|
ne thepipen
helovi |
|
‘I am far away from the
tree’ |
|
|
latuk-pen
la vannon |
|
‘bring water from the
well’
|
|
la ne hem pen
dampo |
|
‘he will go from my
house’
|
|
la ne-lopen dampo |
|
‘he will go from me (my
place)’ |
|
penap-pen ne kam
klemklelo |
|
‘I will not work from
tomorrow’
|
The ablative occurs
after some post-positions and adverbs.
|
|
la hem arlo-pen
valo |
|
‘he comes out of (from
inside) |
|
the house’ |
|
