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====Definiteness====  
====Definiteness====  


There are no articles, but the subject of a clause is generally definite and the verb deals with something indefinite and swapping the subject and the verb within a clause is used to achieve this effect. This results in some transformations that produce entirely different looking words, such as the change from '''''mogivo''''' (≈ "the banana") to '''''jimujai''''' (≈ "a banana") in the following sentences.
There are no articles, but the subject of a clause is generally definite and the verb deals with something indefinite. ''Inversion'' (swapping the subject and the verb within a clause) is used to achieve this effect. The resulting transformations produce entirely different looking words, such as the change from '''''mogivo''''' (≈ "the banana") to '''''jimujai''''' (≈ "a banana") in the following sentences.




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