Intransitive verbs ending in- y- change it to -h-to
form the transitive
o;ka
o:yine
‘The pot breaks’
edi
o:ka
o:hine
‘She breaks the pot’
6.5.2.4.
Intransitive verbs ending in (N) B, where N stands for a nasal and B for the
voiced homorganic stop, drop the pre-final N and change the final B to the
corresponding voiceless homorganic stop, sibilant or affricate which is
followed by the glottal affricate-h-
lu:lu
ambi
manne
‘The rope is breaking’
na:nu lu:lu aphima:?
‘I am breaking the rope’
baga
ogi
manne
‘The stick is breaking’
baga
okhi
mannesi
‘He is breaking the stick
hemburi u:di manne
‘The cloth is wet’
hemburi u:thi manne
‘He is wetting the cloth’
6.5.3.
Causatives :
6.5.3.0
Causative verbs are those verbs which indicate that there are two agents -
one causes and the other performs.
edi po:da?ã e:yuta metviki:te ‘She causes
the
girl to be bathed’
6.5.3.1
Causative verbs are derived from
intransitive or transitive bases by the addition of the suffix-vi which has
the variants -pi ~ -bi ~ mbi ~ -i to the verb stem. It is then
followed by the verb ki:-’to do, to make.’ The following is the
distribution of the suffixes.
1) when the verb ends in a long
vowel the suffix is --vi.
na:nu evaņa? â
va:vi ki:tteni
‘I made him cocome.
na:nu
o:la?
â
kamma ki:vi ki:teni
‘I made the boy do work
Exceptions:
pre:biki:
‘to make
to chase,
re:biki
‘to make
to drag’
ii) When the verb ends in -r, -ŗ-ņ,
-bi is suffixed.
ayya
o:la?
â
irbi ki:te
‘The woman made the boy beat’
iii) When the verb root ends in a
cluster the suffix is --i
na:nu evaņa?
â
paņi
ki:te? á
‘I made him send’
iv) When the verb root ends in -n, -mbi is suffixed.
na:nu evaņa? â
nańgo
venimbi kiyyate? è
‘I made him tell me.
evari nańgo
paţka
tinimbi ki:tesi
‘He made me eat fruits
Exceptions:
venbi ki :
‘to make to ask’
punbi ki :
‘to make to know
v) When the verb root ends in any
other vowel o consonant -p- ~ -pi- is suffixed.
o;ka
o:yine 
gi
manne 
