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‘He resembles his father’
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evasi ta:ma a:ba ga: i
ki:tani he:i
ki:teri |
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‘They are wasting their father’s wealth’
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4.3.2.2
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With a reflexive connotation in which case also syntactically it occurs
immediately after the subject |
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evasita:na ji:vu ji:¸ikihaņkoitesi
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‘He was defending him-self.’ |
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4.3.4.4
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The reflexive pronoun is also used
as the subject when there is no antecedent to cause the occur rence
of the noun. In these occurrences it is used just like the third person
pronoun. |
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ta:na
o:la?a
muddu ki:nesi |
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‘He is fondling the boy’
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The reflexive pronoun is used for emphasis. |
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na:nu ha:ţa?anahâ
ta:nu va:hamces
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‘without my calling he himself came’
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4.4 |
Numerals |
4.4.1.
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Cardinal Numerals: |
4.4.4.1
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Numerals are a sub-class of nouns,
since they carry gender-number and are inflected for case. Kuvi has
numerals for ‘one’ and two’.
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| roņi |
‘one’ |
| riņi |
‘two’ |
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4.4.4.1.2
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Numerals from ‘three’ to ‘ten’ are expressed
by using the Oriya numerals with the classifier- goţţa. |
| ti:nigoţţa |
‘three’ |
| sa:rigoţţa |
‘four’ |
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4.4.1.3
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Numerals from ‘eleven’ to ‘twenty’ are expressed by using the Oriya
numeral with or without the classifier-goţţa.
The former is more frequent.
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| ega:ra |
‘eleven’ ~ |
ega:ragoţţa |
| ba:ra |
‘twelve’ ~ |
ba:ra goţţa |
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4.4.1.4
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for ‘twenty’ however salga is used.
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Numerals above twenty are formed by using ko·e
a form of the Oriya word ku·ie-twenty,
followed by the cardinal numeral.
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| ko·eroņi |
‘twenty one’ |
| ko·eri¸ņi |
‘twenty two’ |
| ko·edaso |
‘thirity’ |
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4.41.5
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Numerals above forty are formed by using bound forms of the cardinal numbers ri, ti:ni, sa:riņ pa:so which is followed by koe
‘twenty’ which is then followed by the numerals one to ten.
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