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* Gnomic or potential meanings: | * Gnomic or potential meanings: | ||
:: ''gūṇai mordhīran'' - birds [can] fly. | :: ''gūṇai mordhīran'' - birds [can] fly. | ||
:: ''spragnyirena lalāruṇai pāmvyų lilų nanū dårbhīrante'' - large lalāruṇai can carry more than three people. | :: ''spragnyirena lalāruṇai pāmvyų lilų nanū dårbhīrante'' - large lalāruṇai [can] carry more than three people. | ||
* (in the past or perfect) completed movements: movement to a place and then returning back. | * (in the past or perfect) completed movements: movement to a place and then returning back. | ||
:: ''liliā buneya galiākinom mordhek'' - my older sister went to Galiākina by plane [and came back]. | :: ''liliā buneya galiākinom mordhek'' - my older sister went to Galiākina by plane [and came back]. | ||
:: ''liliā buneya galiākinom mudhek'' - my older sister went to Galiākina by plane [but she's still there {or at least she was at the time relevant to the topic}]. | :: ''liliā buneya galiākinom mudhek'' - my older sister went to Galiākina by plane [but she's still there {or at least she was at the time relevant to the topic}]. | ||
Except for this last meaning, multidirectional verbs are never used in the perfect.<br/> | Except for this last meaning, multidirectional verbs are never used in the perfect.<br/> | ||
In auxiliary constructions, monodirectional verbs are never used as habituals (infinitive + '' | In auxiliary constructions, monodirectional verbs are never used as habituals (infinitive + ''ñeaɂake''), while multidirectional ones are never used as progressives (impf.subj. + ''lā'' + ''gyake''): | ||
: ''liliā buneya galiākinom | : ''liliā buneya galiākinom mordhakeñeaɂek'' - my older sister regularly went to Galiākina by plane. | ||
: ''liliā buneya galiākinom mugdhīti lā moe'' - my older sister was flying to Galiākina. | : ''liliā buneya galiākinom mugdhīti lā moe'' - my older sister was flying to Galiākina. | ||
Note that monodirectional verbs do not form frequentatives, as their multidirectional counterparts already have a frequentative meaning. Frequentative verbs derived from multidirectional ones have an iterative meaning: | |||
: ''kitom flå'' - I walk/am walking home. | |||
: ''tulūɂa bembīyi kitom peithu'' - I regularly walk home at six in the afternoon. | |||
: ''tulūɂa bembīyi kitom peipathveyu'' - I keep walking/going home at six in the afternoon. | |||
====Origin prefixes==== | ====Origin prefixes==== | ||