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 The suffix -a is used when the adverb is used as a POSTposition, or more generally to show that the adverb is connected primarily with the PREVIOUS words before the meaning is joined to the following.
-The suffix -an is used when the adverb is used as a PREposition or conjunction, or more generally to show that the adverb connects primarily to the FOLLOWING word and not to the previous. Therefore, an adverb ending in -an cannot be in the end of a clause, but in rare cases that is done, and then the -an adverb refers to something understood but not stated.
+UNTIL 2016 MARCH 03, the suffix -an was used when the adverb is used as a PREposition or conjunction, or more generally to show that the adverb connects primarily to the FOLLOWING word and not to the previous.
-We have seen JASO JENA and JASO RAMA, JASO RINO RAMA before; instead of JASO JENA (teeth-using), we can say JENAN JASO and the meaning is the same: by using the teeth; same as JASO RAMA (tooth-inside) is the meaning of RAMAN JASO =inside the tooth; and same as JASO RINO RAMA (teeth-row-inside) is RAMAN JASO RINO =inside the row of the teeth.
-In Dama, the -a adverbs are preferable to the -an adverbs, and '''in general it is advisable to use the -n as sparingly as possible'''; however Dama is one of very few languages where both postpositions and prepositions can be used.
+AFTER 2016 MARCH 04, it has been decided to abolish the use of PREpositions except IN and use only POSTpositions, which, anyway, have always been preferred in Dama. So now the suffix -AN forms the genitive of nouns, and this solves the main problem of Dama, which was that the same form with the suffix -O could be used both for nominative and for genitive, with optional means to distinguish between them.
+'''In general it is advisable to use the -n as sparingly as possible'''.
+Although now there is no more the facility to use both prepositions and postpositions, still a prepositional syntax can be imitated with the help of the indeclinable preposition IN: the most normal way is to say, e.g. SURA SURA TARO IN RABO KUTA or SURA SURA TARO RABAN KUTA =the monkey is up the tree, but we can also say the same as SURA SURA TARO KUTA IN RABO. So, Dama acquired the distinction between nominative and genitive without losing essentially anything.
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