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# Gnomic or potential meanings (the latter are usually not marked with the potential ''junia'' if it's a natural trait - see second example): | # Gnomic or potential meanings (the latter are usually not marked with the potential ''junia'' if it's a natural trait - see second example): | ||
#: ''gūṇai mordhāhai'' – birds fly. | #: ''gūṇai mordhāhai'' – birds fly. | ||
#: ''sūrṣirāhe lalāruṇai pāmvyų lilų | #: ''sūrṣirāhe lalāruṇai pāmvyų lilų širē dårbhāhaite'' – large lalāruṇai [can] carry more than three people. | ||
# In the past and in both future tenses, they can mark completed movements, that is, movement to a place and then back again. The perfect has roughly the meaning of "...to have just come back". | # In the past and in both future tenses, they can mark completed movements, that is, movement to a place and then back again. The perfect has roughly the meaning of "...to have just come back". | ||
#: ''lilyā buneya ajāɂilbādhyom mordhek'' – my older sister went (flew) to Ajāɂilbādhi [and came back]. | #: ''lilyā buneya ajāɂilbādhyom mordhek'' – my older sister went (flew) to Ajāɂilbādhi [and came back]. |
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