Chlouvānem/Positional and motion verbs: Difference between revisions

: ''lilǣ dvārme nateyašu'' "I read in my room".

: ''lilǣ dvārme natekilmim'' "we talk in my room".

 

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, very common in speech, is to use the appropriate positional verb followed by the action verb. This has the advantage of showing the type of position:

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

: ''lilǣ dvārme namerįm kilmiṃte'' "we talk while sitting in my room".

 

The third strategy, correct but more proper in formal writings than in speech is to put the position as the derived noun (in ''-timas'' / ''-mirtas'' / ''-utis'') in the locative and the location in the genitive:

: ''lilyai dvārmi nañutye yašute'' "I read while laying in my room" (lit. "in a sitting position in the inside of my room").

: ''lilyai dvārmi namirte kilmiṃte'' "we talk while sitting in my room".