| They are further grouped into two groups according to the transitivizer they take. |
| (i) Verbs taking -t- transitivizer. |
| |
| |
| (ii) Verbs taking -i- transitivizer. |
| be: |
|
‘to bake’ |
| no: |
|
‘to pain’ |
| no:-nd-e |
> |
(R. 9) |
nonde |
|
‘I pushed’ |
|
| |
| 5.1.3 Simple verb stems of class III |
This class consists of all the verbs taking -nj- as the past tense marker. The verb stems belonging to this class are further classified into three groups. |
| Sub-class 1 |
| The verbs belonging to this sub-class are inherent transitives. |
| ari |
|
‘to know’ |
| eri |
|
‘to throw’ |
| pare |
|
‘to speak’ |
ka e-nj-e |
> |
|
kaenje |
|
‘I lost’ |
|
| |
| Sub-class 2 |
| The verbs belonging to this sub-class are non-transitivizable intransitives. |
| ku:l- |
|
‘to bend’ |
| pa:y- |
|
‘to run’ |
| mure |
|
‘humming of honey bees’ |
|
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