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However, while always correct, there may be some ambiguities because of the use of positional prefixes as derivational ones: the latter example shows one of these ambiguities, as ''nakulke'' means both "to talk (in somewhere)" and "to begin to talk/speak". Another strategy, correct but more proper in formal writings than in speech, is to use the appropriate positional verb as a homofocal adverbial. This has the advantage of showing the type of position:

: ''lilea domane nañollie yašute'' "I read while laying in my room" (note that "to lay in one's room" idiomatically means "to lay on the bed").

: ''lilea domane namerlie killięte'' "we talk while sitting in my room".

The third, and most colloquial strategy, is to put the position as the derived noun (in ''-timas'' / ''-mirtas'' / ''-utis'') in the locative and the location in the genitive: