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'''pire''' ''+ genitive case'' "in front of" (state), "before" (in time); ''+ accusative case'' "in front of" (motion) | '''pire''' ''+ genitive case'' "in front of" (state), "before" (in time); ''+ accusative case'' "in front of" (motion) | ||
* ''Lámá minsá '''pire''' tassyá hettehi esti.'' – My house is in front of the church. | * ''Lámá minsá '''pire''' tassyá hettehi esti.'' – My house is in front of the church. | ||
* ''Mé gyalhe at jahán '''pire''' ontarendóré.'' – I don't know [how] the world [was] before the Internet. | * ''Mé gyalhe at jahán '''pire''' tosy ontarendóré.'' – I don't know [how] the world [was] before the Internet. | ||
* ''So sów '''pire''' tám hettam benti.'' – The priest is walking [up to] in front of the church. | * ''So sów '''pire''' tám hettam benti.'' – The priest is walking [up to] in front of the church. | ||
'''sya''' ''+ dative case'': "with" | '''sya''' ''+ dative case'': "with" | ||
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'''tenúi''' ''+ dative case'': "concerning, about" | '''tenúi''' ''+ dative case'': "concerning, about" | ||
* ''Syihámrey '''tenúi''' tós taruwi lífasyóst syaismánsyóst mulúgimát.'' "Today we will talk about contemporary Lifashian literature." | * ''Syihámrey '''tenúi''' tós taruwi lífasyóst syaismánsyóst mulúgimát.'' "Today we will talk about contemporary Lifashian literature." | ||
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A note on prosody: articles following prepositions are always unstressed, except for those following the prepositions ''lémí'', ''tenúe'' and ''tenúi'' which maintain secondary stress. While not represented orthographically, unstressed articles are, prosodically, attached to the preceding word and in the majority of dialects have their vowels shortened and, in the case of ''at'', only the consonant remains if the preposition ends in a vowel. For example, ''peli at'' "under the (n, lative)" is pronounced {{IPA|[ˈpelit]}}; ''hó tosy'' "from the (m/n)" is pronounced {{IPA|[ˈhoːtoʃ]}}.<br/>In colloquial speech only, ''pire'' loses its final vowel before any article but ''at'', so for example ''pire tassyá'' "before/in front of the (f)" is pronounced {{IPA|[ˈpirtæʃːɑː]}}, while ''pire at'' "in front of the (n, lative)" is {{IPA|[ˈpiret]}}, following the usual rules. | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||