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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”). | ||
Commitative markers are used to mark two subjects of the same verb: ''Nicwatis Gësalpis girālkyilo'' – “Nitswata and Gesalpa are fighting (together)”; or to indicate an action that is reciprocal: ''Nicwata Gësalpa girālsailo'' “Nitswata and Gësalpa are fighting each other”. Since both arguments are equal, neither can be a direct object, even though the verb ''girālan'' “to fight” is transitive. In the first case the direct object is omitted, yet implied, while in the second case the verb becomes reflexive. | |||
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