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| Poetic High Sjowaázh may use archaic discourse affixes used in Classical Sjowaázh. | | Poetic High Sjowaázh may use archaic discourse affixes used in Classical Sjowaázh. |
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| ====Unipersonal conjugation==== | | ====Unipersonal affixes==== |
| The suffix conjugation is used for inherently intransitive (unaccusative) or reflexive verbs, and imperatives. Unipersonal verbs are negated in the optative/imperative by ''núr<sup>N</sup>''.
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| | ====Bipersonal affixes==== |
| |+'''Unipersonal verb structure'''
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| !0!!1!!2
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| ||'''Stem'''/Voice/Aspect||Personal suffix||Imperative or Polarity/Focus
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| In the indicative the personal suffixes represent the subject; in the imperative they indicate the object.
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| !colspan="4"|Unipersonal suffixes
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| !Person!!Singular!!Paucal!!Plural
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| !0
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| |colspan="3"|''-c[h]<sup>1</sup>áˀ''
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| !1
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| ||''-d(i)/-gh(i)''<sup>1</sup>/''-t[h]<sup>1</sup>í''<sup>3</sup>||''-t[h]<sup>1</sup>ú''||''-t[h]<sup>1</sup>áˀ''
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| !2
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| ||''-ann''||''-nú''||''-náˀ''
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| !3
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| ||-''(a)''<sup>2</sup>/''-í''<sup>3</sup>||''-ú''||''-áˀ''
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| The 0th, 1st and 2nd person forms are penultimately stressed; the 3rd person forms are ultimately stressed.
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| <sup>1</sup>After vowels or ''mh''.<br/>
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| <sup>2</sup>As indicative subject; not expressed without another suffix<br/>
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| <sup>3</sup>As imperative object.
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| !colspan="2"|Slot 2 suffixes
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| ! Netagin !! Gloss
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| | ''-n'' || Imperative ({{sc|imp}})
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| | ''-chú'' || Affirmative focus ({{sc|aff.foc}})
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| | ''-hí'' || Negative ({{sc|neg}})
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| | ''-náˀ/-cháˀ*'' || Negative focus ({{sc|neg.foc}})
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| <nowiki>*</nowiki>In second person forms.
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| ====Bipersonal conjugation==== | |
| The prefix conjugation is used for non-imperative transitive verbs (verbs that can take an agent and a patient).
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| |+'''Bipersonal verb structure'''
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| !−2!!−1!!0!!1!!2
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| |Inverse prefix||Bipersonal prefix||'''Transitive stem'''/Voice/Aspect||Polarity/Focus||Pluractionality suffix
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| !colspan="2"|Inverse prefix
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| ! Netagin !! Gloss
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| | ''fa''<sup>D</sup>- || Inverse ({{sc|inv}})
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| The inverse prefix is called ''fó mágham'' ('flipping/inverting ''fó''') in Netagin. Note that the inverse prefix geminates/de-lenites the personal prefix consonant.
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| ! Netagin !! Gloss
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| | ''b-'' || (2,0)
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| | ''c-'' || (1,0)
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| | ''h-'' || (1,2)
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| | ''l-'' || (0,3)
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| | ''n-'' || (2,3)
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| | ''t-'' || (1,3)
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| | ''y-'' || (3,3)
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| !colspan="2"|Polarity/focus suffixes
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| ! Netagin !! Gloss
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| | ''-(a)'' || Affirmative ({{sc|aff}})
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| | ''-cú'' || Affirmative focus ({{sc|aff.foc}})
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| | ''-hí'' || Negative ({{sc|neg}})
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| | ''-náˀ'' || Negative focus ({{sc|neg.foc}})
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| All of the above suffixes are stressed. The focused suffixes emphasize the truth value and are therefore used to answer yes/no questions.
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| !colspan="2"|Pluractionality suffix
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| ! Netagin !! Gloss
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| | ''-nn'' || Pluractional ({{sc|plax}})
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| The pluractionality suffix never affects the thematic vowel in irregular verbs, unlike other suffixes beginning with a consonant.
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| ===Numerals=== | | ===Numerals=== |