The inseparable suffixed or subformative are as follows:-- Yaun, My.
The particle un, which thus marks the third person and persons, is sometimes pronounced wun, and sometimes yun, as the harmony of the word to which it is suffixed may require.
These are the pronouns denoting possession and they are suffixed to a certain class of nouns only, those which denote names of parts of the body, or of family relationship, or of things in close relationship to the possessor.
All prepositions governing nouns have the pronoun suffixedas an anticipatory object in agreement with the noun: gera lea fonosia fera they went to harm the land, fafia si doo concerning the matter.
The suffixed pronoun is used with fasi, but the possessive is used with tasa: na boso nia baita fasia na asufe a pig is larger than a rat; gera baita tasa agera these are much larger than those.
Nouns to which possessive suffixes may be added: Certain nouns take the suffixed pronoun denoting the possessor.
A second object of the verb always appears in the suffixed pronoun singular and plural third: gu langi si adasia na ola I did not see a canoe, gera gutafigera na mwane gi they persecuted the men.
Nouns of relationship: With the exception of sasi brother, sister, nouns of relationship are never used with a suffixed pronoun: maa nau my father.
The pronoun a may be suffixed to ani; tasi doo gera qaifamanatai ania the thing they taught withal; ka modea na toongi ua inao ania to mend the old garment withal.
By the suffixed pronoun: inia nane gu bae kekerofana fasi uri this is he of whom I spoke.
Some are constructed from verbal nouns to which the suffixed pronoun is always added: fonosia in front of him, nia initoo fonosi gera he ruled over them, fonosi taa to meet what?
The suffixed locative, -unk, seems to have been generally used in connection with the names of hills.
It is in the third person used alone in Dak, but suffixed to i in Minnetaree.
The present and imperfect tense of the potential mood, is formed by dau, and the perfect by gee, suffixed as in other instances.
The inseparable suffixed or subformative are as follows-- Yaun, My.
But in other respects, case and many other relations are pointed out by an extensive series ofsuffixed or enclitic syllables, mostly monosyllabic, which Byington calls article-pronouns, and writes as separate words.
The Mikir verb indicates time, past, present, or future, by means of particles prefixed or suffixedto the root.
But the remarkable feature of Mikir in reduplicating initial consonants before the suffixed negative (see ante, p.
Sometimes the particle to is suffixedto the genitive; e.
The particles domo and ra are also (9 suffixed to the singular when one wishes to humiliate the thing mentioned; e.
The particle domo is suffixed to words which indicate humble things, either abstract, animate, or inanimate; e.
The particle me when suffixedto a verb forms a noun which indicates the terminus of the action; e.
Fin means 'poverty,' but when the word nin is suffixed to it, it becomes finnin 'a poor person.
The particle no is suffixed to the second and third person, especially if they are inferior in rank or in a sentence where there is a relative construction which does not indicate a transitive action; e.
There are innumerable nouns which become adjectives if na is suffixed to them; e.
The particle va is suffixed to singular and plural nouns which already have a particle; e.
When the verb ari,u issuffixed to the perfect it is not as elegant a way of speaking as {125} when gozari,u is used.
It is not suffixed to words as are the other particles but it is prefixed instead; e.
When the noun to which they are suffixed has a double form, the postposition is added to the short form.
The verb angege, to go, in the past tense has the particle ga prefixed to the verb instead of suffixed to the pronoun.
As a rule, the object is merely appended, and where it appears in the form itself, it is inserted between the stem and the suffixed pronoun.
The pronoun used in the conjugation with tense signs may also be prefixed to a simple adjective, and the pronoun used in the conjugation without tense sign is suffixed to this, and the participial ending is then added.
Among the tense signs, a prefixed l indicates a past time, a suffixed o, the future; but the others are independent particles, loosely attached to the stem.
Norris maintains that these are not forms of mî and tî, but only an a suffixed to the verb termination, which in the first person reverts to a primary m for v, and in the second person reassumes a dropped t.
