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| ===Negation===
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| The adverbial ''maa'' can be used to negate another word of any class, which it directly precedes.
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| |phrase=ao bahbo <u>maa</u> ehhea
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| |IPA=[ʔɑːʊ̯ ˈβɑ̞ħ.pʊ ˈmɑ̞ː‿je̞çˈçɛ̯ɑː]
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| |gloss=ao dog <u>NEG</u> PROX-see.ACT.IND
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| |translation=Ao can't see the dog
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| A related unstressed prefix ''ma-'' can be used in the preverb slot as a privative, generally for derivation, sometimes with irregularities in established formations.
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| |phrase=*<u>ma</u>yeadõõ → <u>m</u>eadõõ
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| |IPA=[ˈmᵇɛ̯ɑːˌðũ̯õ̞ː]
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| |gloss=<u>PRIV</u>-see-POT.ACT.IND
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| |translation=blind
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| Suffixes can be added to form related adverbials such as ''maada'' "nowhere" and ''maago'' "never".
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| ==Locative verbs== | | ==Locative verbs== |