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====Adverbial form==== | ====Adverbial form==== | ||
The adverbial form | The adverbial form has no inflection. It us used in several different ways: | ||
*as a simple adverb | *as a simple adverb | ||
*following an animate noun in the [[#Ergative|ergative]] or inanimate noun in the [[#Vocative|vocative]] it functions as an [[#Adjectives|adjective]] | *following an animate noun in the [[#Ergative|ergative]] or inanimate noun in the [[#Vocative|vocative]] it functions as an [[#Adjectives|adjective]] | ||
*following a noun in the [[#Instrumental/(a)comitative|instrumental]] it functions like a Latin [[:w:Ablative absolute|ablative absolute]] | *following a noun in the [[#Instrumental/(a)comitative|instrumental]] it functions like a Latin [[:w:Ablative absolute|ablative absolute]] | ||
*governing a noun in the [[#Partitive|partitive]] to indicate something like a unit of measurement | |||
For more cf. [[#Copula|copula]]. | For more cf. [[#Copula|copula]]. |
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