innele   ‘yesterday’ innau   ‘day before yesterday’ na:e   ‘tomorrow’ nangi   ‘day after tomorrow’ andi   ‘evening’ erde   ‘morning’ ira:vu   ‘night’ ucce   ‘after-noon’

Adverbs of manner

The adverbs belonging to this class provide information regarding the manner in which the action indicated by the verb takes place.

biriya   ‘quickly’ borde   ‘simply’ melle   ‘slowly’

6.2.2    Derived adverbs

The adverb stems are derived by suffixation. The suffixa:yi(cu) is suffixed to the adjectival predicate form of the appellative base to derive adverbs

bali-e-a:yi > (R. 12) baliye a:yi   ‘biggerly’ eri-e-a:yi > (R.12) eriye a:yi   ‘smallerly’ ie-e-a:yi > (R. 12) ieye a:yi   ‘youngerly’

The suffix -a:yi(cu) is suffixed to nouns like ugera 'height' to derive adverbs.

ugera-a:yicu >   ugera:yicu   ‘tallerly’ bala ‘strength’ bala-a:yi >   bala:yi ‘strongly’

6.2.3    Reduplicated adverbs

Some of the examples of the adverbs of this class are

bir-biriya   ‘quick quick’ bor-borde   ‘simply simply’ er-erde   ‘morning morning’