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====Compound Verbs==== | ====Compound Verbs==== | ||
By far the majority of Burungian verbs are formed by compounding one of the true verbs with another part of speech, a verb, noun, adjective or adverb. The true verb is always the last element in the compound and loses the verbal noun prefix ''e-, i-, y-'' or reduces the prefixes ''era-'' and ''ena-'' to ''ra-, na-''. The initial element usually precedes the verb directly, undergoing any of the usual sound changes in compounds, e.g. ''ootoz'' "go cold" < ''os + etoz''. | |||
* '''Verb + Verb''', in which the first verb modifies the sense of the second | |||
====Negation==== | ====Negation==== | ||