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As expected, dative case is used for destination and ablative for origins, e.g. ''jñūmui prifliven'' - (s)he goes behind the tree; ''lālia ñæltah kitų meakfluṃsusah'' - my sister is walking from somewhere near home.

Prefixes may be combined in order to form more specific meanings, like ''bacmūgmṛcce'' meaning "to run nearer while avoiding something". A verb like this has two arguments, a true direction (denoted by ''mūg-'', near) and a relative position (''bac-'', avoiding); the first one is in the usual dative case, while the latter is in the exessive, e.g. ''sāmiåh kitui nanāt ūnimat bacmūgamṛcim'' - I ran nearer to your home while avoiding that street.

=====To wear, put on, take off=====

Chlouvānem does not have a single verb for "to wear", "to put on", or "to take off" when related to clothing: instead, there are seven different verbs depending on the part of the body for "to wear" and "to put on", and seven more (paired with these) for "to take off".

Despite the apparent complexity of such a system, they are completely regular and built in a logical way, with "lative" prefixes for the wear/put on verb and "ablative" for the take off one:

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! Clothing type/body part !! To wear/to put on !! To take off !! Related root

|-

| Any clothing bandaged around the body, plus most things worn around the trunk (Most generic verb, but does not cover all other meanings) || kamikyāke || kælikyāke || ''ukyā'' "trunk"

|-

| Shoes, socks, anything else on the feet and/or ankles || kamijunaike || kælijunaike || ''junai'' "foot"

|-

| Head and neck (hats, caps, tiaras, necklaces...) || āṃlāṇṭake || yanalāṇṭake || ''lāṇṭam'' "head"

|-

| Hands, wrists (gloves, bracelets...) || kamidhānake || kælidhānake || ''dhāna'' "hand"

|-

| Legs (except bandaged-around clothing that also covers the trunk) Trousers, pants || nampājike || nenipājike || ''pājya'' "leg"

|-

| Something with (long) sleeves || āṃskaglake || yanaskaglake || rowspan=2 | ''skaglas'' "blanket"

|-

| Blankets (not worn) || kamiskaglake || kæliskaglake

|}

Note that the sense of "to wear" is most usually translated with patient-trigger voice - e.g. ''pāṇḍah jūnekah tę kamikyāyė'' "(s)he wears white robes" - while "to put on" with agent-trigger voice ''pāṇḍu jūneku kamiçakyāyė'' "(s)he puts/is putting on white robes".

===Sentence phrase===

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 As expected, dative case is used for destination and ablative for origins, e.g. ''jñūmui prifliven'' - (s)he goes behind the tree; ''lālia ñæltah kitų meakfluṃsusah'' - my sister is walking from somewhere near home.<br/>
 Prefixes may be combined in order to form more specific meanings, like ''bacmūgmṛcce'' meaning "to run nearer while avoiding something". A verb like this has two arguments, a true direction (denoted by ''mūg-'', near) and a relative position (''bac-'', avoiding); the first one is in the usual dative case, while the latter is in the exessive, e.g. ''sāmiåh kitui nanāt ūnimat bacmūgamṛcim'' - I ran nearer to your home while avoiding that street.
+=====To wear, put on, take off=====
+Chlouvānem does not have a single verb for "to wear", "to put on", or "to take off" when related to clothing: instead, there are seven different verbs depending on the part of the body for "to wear" and "to put on", and seven more (paired with these) for "to take off".<br/>
+Despite the apparent complexity of such a system, they are completely regular and built in a logical way, with "lative" prefixes for the wear/put on verb and "ablative" for the take off one:
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+! Clothing type/body part !! To wear/to put on !! To take off !! Related root
+|-
+| Any clothing bandaged around the body, plus most things worn around the trunk<br/><small>(Most generic verb, but does not cover all other meanings)</small> || kamikyāke || kælikyāke || ''ukyā'' "trunk"
+|-
+| Shoes, socks, anything else on the feet and/or ankles || kamijunaike || kælijunaike || ''junai'' "foot"
+|-
+| Head and neck <small>(hats, caps, tiaras, necklaces...)</small> || āṃlāṇṭake || yanalāṇṭake || ''lāṇṭam'' "head"
+|-
+| Hands, wrists <small>(gloves, bracelets...)</small> || kamidhānake || kælidhānake || ''dhāna'' "hand"
+|-
+| Legs (except bandaged-around clothing that also covers the trunk)<br/>Trousers, pants || nampājike || nenipājike || ''pājya'' "leg"
+|-
+| Something with (long) sleeves || āṃskaglake || yanaskaglake || rowspan=2 | ''skaglas'' "blanket"
+|-
+| Blankets (not worn) || kamiskaglake || kæliskaglake
+|}
+Note that the sense of "to wear" is most usually translated with patient-trigger voice - e.g. ''pāṇḍah jūnekah tę kamikyāyė'' "(s)he wears white robes" - while "to put on" with agent-trigger voice ''pāṇḍu jūneku kamiçakyāyė'' "(s)he puts/is putting on white robes".
 ===Sentence phrase===