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! Montaigne | ! Montaigne | ||
| yayak|| yay || tay || Kahno côri yay cire/ciri itá || The boy went up the mountain.|| | | yayak|| yay || tay || Kahno côri yay cire/ciri itá || The boy went up the mountain.|| | ||
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=====Aspect ===== | |||
The verb, in contrast to the copula, encodes aspect with clitics that attach to the end of the word. If a coverb appears, the aspect marker will cliticize to the coverb. Nankôre possesses several aspect markers, as illustrated in the following table: | |||
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg" | |||
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! !! Aspect Marker!! Meaning | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Perfect | |||
| -Ø|| | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Semelfective | |||
| =no|| completed in one single motion/act, e.g. hit | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Simple Imperfect | |||
| =ro|| | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Durative/Repetitive | |||
| =nahoyra, =noyra|| several times | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Habitative | |||
| =(h)osma, =sma|| often | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Factive | |||
| =yosir|| (general truth statement, e.g. "The sun rises in the east") | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Continuative | |||
| =namporo|| to continue | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Inceptive | |||
| =otah|| to begin | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Cessative | |||
| =ciri|| to stop | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Terminative | |||
| =ruykáno|| to finish | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Incipient | |||
| =kara|| about to | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Approximative | |||
| =tontoro|| almost, nearly | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Frequentative | |||
| =nokori, -(o)nkori|| often | |||
|- | |||
|} | |} | ||