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i : heńńuņi ayyavayi	‘This basket (is the) woman’s’
i : heńńuņika ayyava?i	‘These baskets(arethe)
	woman’s’
i : heńńuńņika ayyasikava?i	‘These baskets (are the)
	women’s’
i : heńńuņi na:di	‘This basket (is) mine’
i : heńņuni na: vi	‘This basket (is) ours’
i : heńńuņika ma:vi	‘These baskets (are) ours’
i : heńńuņikanna: vi	‘These baskets (are) mine’
i : heńńuņi ni : di	‘This basket (is) yours (sg.)’
i : heńńuņi mi : di	‘This basket (is) yours (hon.)’
i : heńńuņi edaņivayi	‘This basket (is) her’s’
i : heńńuņika edaņiva?i	‘These baskets (are) her ‘s’
i : heńņuņi evasikavayi	‘This basket (is) their’s
	(hum. fem.)’
i : heńńuņi evaņavayi	‘This basket (is) his’
i : heńńuņika evaņava?i	‘These baskets (are) his’
i : heńńńuņi evaravayi	‘This basket (is) theirs
	(hum.-fem. pl.)’
i : heńńuņika evarava?i	‘These baskets (are) theirs
	(hnm.-masc. pl.)’
i : heńńuņi kajjadivayi	‘This basket (is the) big (fem.)
	one’s’
i : heńńuņika kajjadiva?i	‘These baskets (are the) big
	(fem.) one’s’
i : heńńuņi kajjasivayi	‘This basket (is the) big
	(hum.-masc.) one’s’
i : heńńuņika kajjasiva?i	(These baskets (are the) big
	(hum.-masc.) one’s’

VERBS

6.0

Verbs are a class of words inflected for the categories of tense, aspect and mood. The nucleus of a verb form is the verb stem.

6.0.1.

Verb stems are simple, complex or compound. A simple stem is a single root; a complex stem has one root followed by one or ,more derivational morphemes; a compound stem has more than one root and may include one or more derivational or inflectional suffixes - the whole sequence constituting a single nucleus of the verb.

6.1

Simple stems

Simple stems are all monosyllabic monomorphemic with the following canonical forms.

a) (c) :

e ‘arrive at a place’

ha: ‘die’

b) (c) : c

man ‘to be’

hal ‘go’

tu: h ‘bear (give birth to)’

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