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"The person would like the fish." | "The person would like the fish." | ||
=====Ditransitive Verbs===== | |||
'''Paradigm Verb''': happat, 'give'<br> | |||
'''Auxiliary Lemma''': hap | |||
Ditransitive verbs are verbs like 'give' or 'throw' that have an actor, a patient and a recipient. They have an actor in the ergative case who causes or initiates the action, a patient in the absolutive case that is the thing acted on or transferred, and an indirect object in the dative case that is the recipient, purpose, destination or beneficiary of the action. | |||
''Realis Conjugation of '''hap''''' | |||
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 400px; text-align:center;" | |||
! scope="col" | | |||
! scope="col" | Imperfect | |||
! scope="col" | Perfect | |||
|- | |||
! | Non-past | |||
| hap /hap/ | |||
| hanne /'han.ne/ | |||
|- | |||
! | Past | |||
| hapo /'ha.bo/ | |||
| hanno /'han.no/ | |||
|} | |||
''Irrealis Conjugation of '''hap''''' | |||
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 400px; text-align:center;" | |||
! scope="col" | | |||
! scope="col" | Imperfect | |||
! scope="col" | Perfect | |||
|- | |||
! | Non-past | |||
| hyp /həp/ | |||
| hynni /'hən.ni/ | |||
|- | |||
! | Past | |||
| hybu /'hə.bu/ | |||
| hynnu /'hən.nu/ | |||
|} | |||
'''Example:''' | |||
''Ja lijátuin hanne fereh si te slek ija sy paluh.''<br> | |||
3.SG.DEF.ERG FEM-person DTRN.NPST.PRF.REAL RELV.ABS TRN.NPST.NPRF.REAL eat 3.SG.DEF.DAT sir dog. | |||
'The woman let her dog eat.' | |||
The word 'sy' is a term of respect and is actually referring back to the woman in this case, not the dog (if it were referring to the dog it would be last). This is an adposition possessive, referring to the referent in a respectful way. | |||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||