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:3SG.ERG-2PL.ABS-PST-slap-PASS-and-yell-Mother-DRPAC
:3SG.ERG-2PL.ABS-PST-slap-PASS-and-yell-Mother-DRPAC
:Mother slapped us and yelled.
:Mother slapped us and yelled.
====Causatives====
Causative constructions are fairly common in Rttirri, used to express many actions that in other languages would be expressed as regular transitive verbs.
:'''''Ne'''-wa-hhi-pu-chi-nerri-ni synapi pipi.''
:1SG.CAUS-3SG.ERG-3PL.ABS-PST-eat-carrot-DRPAC rabbit a_bit
:I fed my rabbit some carrots.
There is no inherent level of force communicated by a causative, so one can use adverbial particles such as ''kuni'' ("willingly") and ''mika'' ("reluctantly") to specify "to let X do Y" or "to make X do Y".
:''We-na-∅-pu-kkai-wesipi-ni '''mika''' Sawikiu.''
:3SG.CAUS-1SG.ERG-3SG.ABS-PST-write-homework-DRPAC reluctantly Father
:Dad made me do my homework.
:''We-ni-pu-ppa-na '''kuni''' Sawikiu tukai-kka ramui-huppu-nye!''
:3SG.CAUS-1SG.ABS-PST-go-DRPAC Father match-DAT square-ball-GEN
:Dad took me to the baseball game!


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