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7.1.3.2
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When -nahâ
is added to the past participial form of a verb we get the meaning ‘as
soon as’
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heń anahâ
kakhi:te
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‘As soon as she saw she laughed’
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ma:ro ra:yagaa
hajjanahâ
heņņo
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‘As soon as we go to Rayagada let us see’
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7.1.3.3
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When- nahâ
is suffixed to the past participial form of the verb it expresses
simultaneous occur rence of actions.
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ŗi:hanahâ
vestesi
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‘while weeping he was
saying’
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ma:mbu niccanahâ
kattahâ
a:tomi
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‘we stood and spoke’
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7.1.3.1
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When one action takes place after another -nahâ
is added to the past participial form of the verb.
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vessanahâ
kuggitesi
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‘He told and sat’
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va:hanahâ
henneri
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‘They will come and see’
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7.1.4
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Causal |
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The form of the verb which refers to an action which is the cause of
another action is called the causal and the suffix is -taki which is added
to the past participial form of the verb. |
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ni:nu va:hataki na:nu ni?
ĩ
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‘Because you are coming I will stay’
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ni:nu va:hataki na:nu nicce?
è
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‘Because you were coming I stayed’
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7.2
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Coordinators |
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7.2.0.
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Co-ordinators are those particles which connect two main
clauses. |
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7.2.1
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The co-ordinating particle sama is semantically equivalent to
‘but’ |
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na:nu hannayi macce sama hajja hillo?
ó
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‘I had to go but I did not go’
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ma:mbu hannayi macce sama hajja hillo?mi
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‘We had to go but we did not go’
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7.2.3.
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When -nahâ
is added to the part participal form of the verb hill ‘not to be’ the
meaning is ‘or’
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na:nu hajjeli vele hillanahâ
evasi hajja hotteri
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‘I must go or he would have left’
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ma:mbu tinjeli vele hillanahâ
ma:mbu ha:ha mannomi
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‘We must eat or we will die’
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7.2.4
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When edantaki is used to connect two main clauses the meaning is
‘therefore, (lit.) for that reason’. |
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ka:l omita pi:yu ri:ha macce edantaki se:nihĩ
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jabborahĩ
kambitu
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‘The rain fell at the right time therefore the crops
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were very good’
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7.3
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Clitics |
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Clitics are an indeclinable class of morphemes which cannot occur as
free morphemes. They are bound morphemes which occur at phrase or clause
level and signal modalities like.
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