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 ||-Cad || *readön || to read || Peneddadáb. 'I read a letter.'
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+Verbs of motion can also combine with placenames to indicate a motion to or from a certain place. These co-verb suffixes do take either the accusative (-i-) for a movement directed to the place or the dative (-e-) case for movement from this place. The Northern dialect will use the ablative (-ä-) here.
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+!suffix !! etymology !! meaning !! example sentence
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+|| -gl- || *gol- || to go || Merikiglób! 'I'll go to America!'
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+|| -km- || *köm- || to come || domilakmél nüdzälülúu. 'You came from [your] home to the party.'
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+|| -rg- || *rig- || to originate || Helsinkikergáaf. 'She is from Helsinki.' [the generic present is used, since it is an unchangeable fact.]
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+|| -sl- || *solu- || to die [in a place] || Moskovisléf. 'She has died in Moscow. [the original meaning 'to dissolve' was used as a metaphore of a soul that loses its connection to the material world when a a person dies.]
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