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evasika da:ra decci hilla?u
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‘They are not opening the door’
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evasika da:ra decci hilla?atu
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‘They were not opening the door’
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6.11.3.2
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Perfective Negative |
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na:nu da:ra decca hillo? ō
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‘I have not opened the door’
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na:nu da:ra decca hille?ete?ē
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‘I had not opened the doord’
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ma:mbu da:ra decca hillo?omi
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‘we have not opened the door’
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ma:mbu da:ra decca hilla?atomi
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‘we had not opened the door’
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ni:nu dara decca hillo?odi
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‘you have not opened the door’
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ni:nu da:ra decca hilla?ati
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‘you had not opened the door’
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mi:ru da:ra decca hillo?oderi
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‘you have not opened the door’
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mi:ru da:ra decca hilla?aderi
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‘you had not opened the door’
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evasi da:ra decca hille?esi
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‘he has not opened the door’
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evasi da:ra decca hilla?atesi
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‘he had not opened the door’
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evari da:ra decca hille?eri
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‘They (m) have not opened the door’
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evari da:ra decca hilla?ateri
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‘They (m) had not opened the door’
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edi da:ra decca hille?e
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‘She has not opened the door’
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edi da:ra decca hilla?ate
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‘She had not opened the door’
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evasika da:ra decca hilla?u
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‘They have not opened the door’
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evasika da:rad decca hilla?atu
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‘They had not opened the door’
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The vowel between the root and the negative marker is enunciatively
because a cluster like II? is not possible and the vowel is either
abstracted as that of the vowel of the negative suffix or of the
person-number-gender suffix.
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It may be noted here that the verb root man ‘to be’ is
declined in the negative only when it is used with the transference
suffix, that is when the object is first or second person, singular or
plural.
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na:nu evara? â
ha:ţi
hilla?ate? ē
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‘I was not calling them’
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na:nu mi´go
ha:ţi
manja?a:teni
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‘I was not calling you’
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6.11.3.4
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Imperative Negative or Prohibitive |
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In the negative imperative the subject is always the second person
singular or plural. The negative suffix is -?a and is suffixed to the verb
root. In the singular the imperative suffix does not follow the negative
suffix in other words the imperative suffix is marked by f
. But in the plural the negative suffix is followed by the
imperative suffix.
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