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-===Negation===
-The adverbial ''maa'' can be used to negate another word of any class, which it directly precedes.
-{{gloss
-|phrase=ao bahbo <u>maa</u> ehhea
-|IPA=[ʔɑːʊ̯ ˈβɑ̞ħ.pʊ ˈmɑ̞ː‿je̞çˈçɛ̯ɑː]
-|gloss=ao dog <u>NEG</u> PROX-see.ACT.IND
-|translation=Ao can't see the dog
-}}
-A related unstressed prefix ''ma-'' can be used in the preverb slot as a privative, generally for derivation, sometimes with irregularities in established formations.
-{{gloss
-|phrase=*<u>ma</u>yeadõõ → <u>m</u>eadõõ
-|IPA=[ˈmᵇɛ̯ɑːˌðũ̯õ̞ː]
-|gloss=<u>PRIV</u>-see-POT.ACT.IND
-|translation=blind
-}}
-Suffixes can be added to form related adverbials such as ''maada'' "nowhere" and ''maago'' "never".
 ==Locative verbs==