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 9.6.2.2

Conditional

na:nu ticcihĩ ha? ì

   1       2        3

If I eat (I) will go’

 2 1  2         3

ni:nu tin?athĩ ma:ro hal?ayi

   1        2        3       4

"If you don’t eat we won’t go

  2  1       2        3      4


9.6.2.3
 
Causal

ni:nu va:hataki na:nu ni?ĩ

   1         2         3     4

because you are coming I will wait’

      2        1        2       3       4

 
9.6.2.4
 

Simultaneative

ma:mbu tinjihĩ venji maccomi

    1         2               3

‘we were eating (and) listening’

  1        2                  3


9.6.2.5
 

Relative

pa:cci manni po:da imba?a manne

      1                    2      3           4

‘(The) girl who is singing is here

          2         1         1       4   3

9.6.3
 

Compound sentences contain more than one main clause. Compound sentences in which the subject of both the clauses is the same.

9.6.3.1

 ni:nu tinji hajji

    1     2       3

‘you eat (and) go’

    1    2            3


9.6.3.1
 

In which the subjects of both the clauses are different

na:nu ha?ĩ evasi va:nesi

    1       2        3       4

‘I will go (and) he will come

1    2              3     4


9.6.3.2
 

 In which the clauses are joined by the connective hillanahâ ‘or’

ni:nu tinji hillanahâ na:nu ŗi:? ĩ

   1     2        3         4        5

‘you eat or I will cry’

      1   2   3  4     5


TEXT
 

Karmula-a:lu

1. ri jarnykaju ri ga:yi macce 

2. e: ga:yi ro

one orphan-to one cow was 

that cow one
dinata    nehĩ a:lu tuste  3.  ro  dina   rajja ŗukki

day in  

good  calf gavebirth  one   day  king ploughing

ko:i?ĩ

 a:lu   mu:nji  hacce 4. mu:nji  macc:ņi

bull-acc 

 calf  smelling  went smelling  was-while

rajja 

he:ņanahá  ‘na:ko: a:lu  tussamanne’ iccesi

king 

seeing as   my bull  calf give birth is pr.p said
 

 

 

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