| vi) adu ä:ruttu ku:re?} |
‘Whose house is that?’ |
| adu a:ru ku:re?. } |
vii) na:nu i:ta ittu udda:tte la:kke } |
}’I am measuring the ’height of this log’ |
| na:nu i:tai udd:tte la:kke. } |
| viii) i:mara:ttu-pammu.} |
}’That tree’s fruit (unripe) |
| a:mara ka:yi } |
x) adu pammuttu pu i. } |
}‘That is fruit juice’ |
| adu pammu pui. } |
xi) idu ra:mättu pe du. } |
} ‘This is Rama’s wife’ |
| idu ra:mä peu. } |
| xii) idu Künjättu ku:re. } |
} ‘This is Kunja’s house’ |
| idu Künjä ku:re. } |
| 3.8.7. Locative Case |
| Locative case has five suffixes. They are, -i, -li, -ekke, -ili and -kke. |
| The noun stems which take -i as the locative case marker will have an inflectional increment -tt- (3.7.1.) which will precede the case marker. |
| {-i} |
 -i, ~ -li, -ekke, ~ ili -kke |
| 3.8.7.1 -i occurs with all nouns ending in -a and with proper nouns. |
| va:na-tt-i (5.11) |
> |
va:na:tti |
‘sky’ (Loc.) |
| pakka-tt-i (5.11) |
> |
pakka:tti |
‘side (Loc.) |
to a-tt-i (5.11) |
> |
to:a:tti |
‘garden’ (Loc.) |
| gia-tt-i (5.11) |
> |
gia:-tti |
‘plant’ (Loc.) |
| mara-tt-i (5.11) |
> |
mara:tti |
‘tree’ (Loc.) |
| koa-tt-i (5.11) |
> |
koa:tti |
‘pond’ (Loc.) |
| re:san-tt-i (5.22) |
> |
re:sätti |
‘Resan’ (Loc.) |
| masaan-tt-i (5.22) |
> |
masaätti |
‘Masanan’ (Loc.) |
| mėri-tt-i |
> |
mėritti |
‘Meri’ (Loc.) |
| dimba-tt-i (5.11) |
> |
dimba:tti |
‘Dimbam’ (place name) (Loc.) |
