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The third example shows that the inverse construction is different from passive, which is a valency changing operation and promotes the object to the subject of the sentence, while inverse does not change roles of nouns in the example.
The third example shows that the inverse construction is different from passive, which is a valency changing operation and promotes the object to the subject of the sentence, while inverse does not change roles of nouns in the example.
==Vocabulary==
The following table shows words in Kootayi and its eastern dialects with corresponding words in the Möhkinis dialect for comparison. Many words were borrowed from Kalyah into Kootayi while some were borrowed into Möhkinis. In the following table, each verb is given with a third person singular subject, and if a verb is transitive, with a third person object or objects, nouns are given in their singular form.
{| class="wikitable"
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!
! Kootayi
! Eastern<br>Kootayi
! Möhkinis<br>Kalyah
|-
| "leaf"
| ''piyá''
| ''pilá''
| ''ceθin''
|-
| "cloud"
| colspan=2| ''istoot''
| ''istoot''
|-
| "town"
| colspan=2| ''occiikim''
| ''ohtiikim''
|-
| "man (male adult)"
| ''ista''
| ''istayo''
| ''ahto''
|-
| "mother"
| colspan=2| ''niisa''
| ''neeya''
|-
| "it is big"
| colspan=2| ''óón''
| ''woin''
|-
| "one"
| colspan=2| ''niim''
| ''yeem''
|-
| "two"
| colspan=2| ''miis''
| ''moθθii''
|-
| "three"
| ''kocci''
| ''koc''
| ''kyösti''
|-
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