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So let's take the above example. If I say "The tree that burns down", the head is "tree", and the relative clause is "that burns down", that you can look at as "The tree (it burns down)". In that clause, the tree is the subject (it is what is burning). So it's the subject of the relative clause. When you write the clause, you use the relativizer ''ai'':

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| ''geeth'' || '''''ai''''' || ''aekhlaat''

If I say "The tree that I burn", the head is the same (tree), but the tree is now the object, the thing being burned. In this case, the relativizer is ''au'' instead of ''ai'':

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| ''geeth'' || '''''au''''' || ''ootawnaekhlaat'' || ''leed''

One thing to remember is that the relativizer is based off of where the head noun fits into the relative clause, ''not'' where it fits into the overall sentence. Look at the following sentence:

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| ''leed'' || ''agen'' || ''igeeth'' || '''''ai''''' || ''aekhlaat''