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 kíeysivieliqiewn /kei&#660;si&#613;eli&#660;eu&#628;/ - to die, verb-focus, perfective antipassive
+sisíeychu /sisei&#660;cu/ - to stab, verb focus
+síeysisíeychu /sei&#660;sisei&#660;cu/ - to stab, verb focus, perfective antipassive
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 kíeyttsátla /kei&#660;ts&#700;a&#660;t&#620;a/ - to make someone's acquaintance, verb-focus, perfective antipassive
+qíeypyiqiiey /&#660;ei&#660;p&#690;i&#660;e&#720;i/ - to spit out, verb-focus
 qíeyttsíeypyiqiiey /&#660;ei&#660;ts&#700;ei&#660;p&#690;i&#660;e&#720;i/ - to spit out, verb-focus, perfective antipassive
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 Here, while the word for "employee" can come after the verb meaning "to fear", the word for "soldier", cannot, since it takes the ergative case (as it is the subject of the transitive verb damasù meaning "to scam").
+<h4>Vowel Replacement</h4>
+All Antarctican verbs use infixation to mark 1st person exclusive objects, whom, what (as a direct object), the imperfective antipassive, and the superordinate voice. However, there is a subset of verbs that use vowel replacement to mark 1st person inclusive objects, 2nd person objects, the reflexive voice, and the perfective antipassive.
+These are verbs where either a) the first vowel is short, modally voiced /i/, the second vowel has breathy voice, and there is no nasal intervening (plain nasals, prestopped nasals, and the placeless nasal /&#628;/ all count) or b) the first vowel is short, modally voiced /&#654;/, which is immediately followed by a voiceless obstruent, without /&#628;/ intervening.
+The vowel replacements depend on whether the verb begins with a hard or soft consonant, but are regular (and have tense voice) and given in the table below:
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+Vowel Replacements for Voice and Object Pronouns
+|-
+|
+|Hard Form
+|Soft Form
+|-
+|1PS Inclusive
+|á
+|áe
+|-
+|2PS
+|óe
+|óe
+|-
+|Reflexive
+|áe
+|íey
+|-
+|Perfective Antipassive
+|N/A use the -íeys- infix instead
+|úow
+|}
+For example:
+sisíeychu /sisei&#660;cu/ - to stab, verb focus
+sásíeychu /sa&#660;sei&#660;cu/ - to stab us (including you), verb focus
+sóesíeychu /s&#604;&#660;sei&#660;cu/ - to stab you, verb focus
+sáesíeychu /s&#603;&#660;sei&#660;cu/ - to stab oneself, verb focus
+Note that the perfective antipassive form is created using the infix -iéys- i.e. síeysisíeychu /sei&#660;sisei&#660;cu/ - to stab, verb focus, perfective antipassive. It is only with verbs starting with soft consonants that vowel replacement is used.
+Also note that, for the other persons and voices, infixation is used e.g.
+siemisíeychu /semisei&#660;cu/ - to stab me / us (not including you), verb focus
+sarisíeychu /sa#641;isei&#660;cu/ - to stab who, verb focus
+sabisíeychu /sabisei&#660;cu/ - to stab what, verb focus
+samisíeychu /samisei&#660;cu/ - to stab, verb focus, imperfective antipassive
+Another example:
+shuetinju /&#231;&#616;ti&#628;&#607;u/ - to count, verb focus
+shimyuetinju /&#231;im&#690;&#616;ti&#628;&#607;u/ - to count me / us (not including you), verb focus
+yáetinju /j&#603;&#660;ti&#628;&#607;u/ - to count us (including you), verb focus
+yóetinju /j&#604;&#660;ti&#628;&#607;u/ - to count you, verb focus
+shieluetinju /&#231;el&#616;ti&#628;&#607;u/ - to count who, verb focus
+shiebyuetinju /&#231;eb&#690;&#616;ti&#628;&#607;u/ - to count what, verb focus
+yúowtinju /jou&#660;ti&#628;&#607;u/ - to count, verb focus, perfective antipassive
+shiemyuetinju /&#231;em&#690;&#616;ti&#628;&#607;u/ - to count, verb focus, imperfective antipassive
+(The /&#231;/ is lenited to /j/ when the vowel is replaced, since Antarctican does not like words starting with fricatives other than /s/ if the next vowel has tense voice.
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