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My wife is more beautiful than your wife.
(N.B. when /lkke/ is used as comparing particle, the suffix /-ya/ becomes optional, as seen in the above example).
2.4.3. Superlative
Superlative is expressed by
1) Suffixing /-yapag/ to the adjective

lu-kke
kumė
gayi-yapag
dak
‘Our house is the biggest’
I pl.gen.
house
big comp.
is
isr
btte-ypag
dak
‘God is the greatest’
God
great comp.
is
ayi-yapag
dak
‘It is the best’
it
good comp.
is

2) The expression /apļlk/

apļlk
amidė m
ayinė
‘He is the best of all’
he
comp.
man acc.
good
Miri
de apļlk
empė nam
kinnanė
‘The Miris are the most clever’
Miri
all from
to than
clever

3. Adverbs
An adverb is a form which fills temporal, manner, place and purpose slots in clause level constructions i.e., adverbs of time, adverbs of manner, adverbs of place and adverbs of purpose.
Example -
3.1. Adverb of time :    base form + post position

supąk (pė)
‘now’
d
‘till this moment’
mėl
‘yesterday’
d
‘then’
aginsėm
‘always’
ldim
‘daily’
yįmpė
‘tomorrow’
sil
‘today’

3.2. Adverb of manner :
It denotes the mode of the action performed by the verb. Adjectives serve as the base form and post-positions are added to form manner adverbs.

ar
+
ar
‘truly’
truth
pp
pės
+
pės
‘terribly’
terrible
pp

Some times the stem is re-duplicated before the postposition is added.

as as
+
asas
‘slowly’
slow slow
pp
zėna zėna
+
zėnazėnapė
‘loudly’
loud loud
pp

3.3. Adverb of purpose :

dļpila
‘so’
kapi kanė
‘because’
kapė legabe
‘for what’

3.4. Adverb of place :
Adverbs of place are of two types - (a) base adverbs and (b) derived adverbs. Examples of base adverbs are

kėig
‘downward’
tįleN
‘upward’
tk
‘up’

Derived adverbs are locative case nominals; some examples are -

k- l
‘where’
kc - l
‘there’
is - pė
‘here’
d- l¨kke
‘from there’

 

 

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