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# Habitual actions: | # Habitual actions: | ||
#: ''jāyim tarlāmahom peithė'' - the girl goes (walks) to school (regularly, every schoolday) | #: ''jāyim tarlāmahom peithė'' - the girl goes (walks) to school (regularly, every schoolday) | ||
#: ''saminą liliā ñæltai jaje | #: ''saminą liliā ñæltai jaje lærṣaika'' - when they were children, my sisters regularly swam in the igarapé. | ||
# Movement inside a specific location (often expressed with locative-trigger voice), without any specified direction. | # Movement inside a specific location (often expressed with locative-trigger voice), without any specified direction. | ||
#: ''jaja lærṣėrā'' - as for the igarapé, someone is swimming in there. (literally "the igarapé, it is being swum") | #: ''jaja lærṣėrā'' - as for the igarapé, someone is swimming in there. (literally "the igarapé, it is being swum") | ||
#: ''marte peithįm'' - we walk around the city. (cf. Russian phrases with ''по'' as in ''мы ходим по городу'') | #: ''marte peithįm'' - we walk around the city. (cf. Russian phrases with ''по'' as in ''мы ходим по городу'') | ||
# 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 | #: ''gūṇai mordhāhai'' - birds fly. | ||
#: ''spragnyirena lalāruṇai pāmvyų lilų nanū | #: ''spragnyirena lalāruṇai pāmvyų lilų nanū 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". | ||
#: ''liliā buneya galiākinom mordhek'' - my older sister went (flew) to Galiākina [and came back]. | #: ''liliā buneya galiākinom mordhek'' - my older sister went (flew) to Galiākina [and came back]. | ||