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*'''class III''': stem ends in ''-l'' – སྟཾལཾན ''stalan'' “to acquire”, ཟཻལཾན ''zēlan'' “to be surrounded”, སཀིལཾན ''sëkīlan'' “to bind”;
*'''class III''': stem ends in ''-l'' – སྟཾལཾན ''stalan'' “to acquire”, ཟཻལཾན ''zēlan'' “to be surrounded”, སཀིལཾན ''sëkīlan'' “to bind”;
*'''class IV''': stem ends in ''-s'' or ''-r'' – གུནཾསཾན ''gunasan'' “to rest”, ཁོརཾན ''khoran'' “to cry”, བསྐྱུརཾན ''bëskyuran'' “to interpret/to translate”;
*'''class IV''': stem ends in ''-s'' or ''-r'' – གུནཾསཾན ''gunasan'' “to rest”, ཁོརཾན ''khoran'' “to cry”, བསྐྱུརཾན ''bëskyuran'' “to interpret/to translate”;
*'''class V''': stem ends in other consonants – ཅྱུཀཾན ''cyukan'' “to trust”, ལཾཏཾཏཾན ''latatan'' “to observe”, ཆོཏཾན ''chōtan'' “to be pierced”.
*'''class V''': stem ends in other consonants – ཅྱུཀཾན ''cyukan'' “to trust”, ལཏཾཏཾན ''lëtatan'' “to observe”, ཆོཏཾན ''chōtan'' “to be pierced”.
Each class has its own conjugation pattern.
Each class has its own conjugation pattern.
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Verbs do not fill every slot of the table, a typical transitive verb have two or three slots filled at a time, for example: སླིཀཾ ཀུཀནཾ ཀོངསྐྱི ''slika kukëna koŋëskyi'' “they two carry fruit in baskets” (''sli-ka'' “fruit-Pl” ''kuk-na'' “basket-Loc” ''koŋ-s-kyi'' “carry-Du-3Ag”); ཀཾམཱིཀྐྱི  ''kamīkkyi'' “he has given it to me” (''ka-m-bī-t-kyi'' “1sg.IndObj-Perf-give-Pret-3Ag”).
Verbs do not fill every slot of the table, a typical transitive verb have two or three slots filled at a time, for example: སླིཀཾ ཀུཀནཾ ཀོངསྐྱི ''slika kukëna koŋëskyi'' “they two carry fruit in baskets” (''sli-ka'' “fruit-Pl” ''kuk-na'' “basket-Loc” ''koŋ-s-kyi'' “carry-Du-3Ag”); ཀཾམཱིཀྐྱི  ''kamīkkyi'' “he has given it to me” (''ka-m-bī-t-kyi'' “1sg.IndObj-Perf-give-Pret-3Ag”).
===Syntax===
===Syntax===
Meskangela is an [[w:Ergative-absolutive language|ergative language]]. Grammatical [[w:Constituent (linguistics)|constituents]] in most Meskangela dialects broadly have [[w:head-final|head-final]] word order ('''SOV''', or "subject-object-verb"). There are some general tendencies:
Meskangela is an [[w:Ergative-absolutive language|ergative language]]. Grammatical [[w:Constituent (linguistics)|constituents]] in most Meskangela dialects broadly have [[w:head-final|head-final]] word order ('''SOV''', or "subject-object-verb"). There are some general tendencies:
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