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Multidirectional verbs have different uses: | Multidirectional verbs have different uses: | ||
* Generic or habitual actions: | * Generic or habitual actions: | ||
: ''jāyim tarlāmahom peithė'' - the girl regularly walks to school. | |||
: ''saminą liliā ñæltai jaje lærṣayivė'' - when they were children, my sisters regularly swam in the igarapé. | |||
* Movement inside a specific location (in locative case, or expressed through locative trigger voice), without any specified direction: | * Movement inside a specific location (in locative case, or expressed through locative trigger voice), without any specified direction: | ||
: ''marte peithalieh'' - we walk around the city. | |||
: ''jaja lærṣėrā'' - as for the igarapé, someone is swimming in there. | |||
* Gnomic or potential meanings: | * Gnomic or potential meanings: | ||
: ''gūṇai mordhīran'' - birds [can] fly. | |||
: ''spragnyirena lalāruṇai pāmvyų lilų nanū dårbhīrante'' - large lalāruṇai [can] carry more than three people. | |||
* (in the past or perfect) completed movements: movement to a place and then returning back. | *(in the past or perfect) completed movements: movement to a place and then returning back. | ||
: ''liliā buneya galiākinom mordhek'' - my older sister went to Galiākina by plane [and came back]. | |||
: ''liliā buneya galiākinom mudhek'' - my older sister went to Galiākina by plane [but she's still there {or at least she was at the time relevant to the topic}]. | |||
Except for this last meaning, multidirectional verbs are never used in the perfect.<br/> | Except for this last meaning, multidirectional verbs are never used in the perfect.<br/> | ||
In auxiliary constructions, monodirectional verbs are never used as habituals (infinitive + ''ñeaɂake''), while multidirectional ones are never used as progressives (impf.subj. + ''lā'' + ''gyake''): | In auxiliary constructions, monodirectional verbs are never used as habituals (infinitive + ''ñeaɂake''), while multidirectional ones are never used as progressives (impf.subj. + ''lā'' + ''gyake''): | ||