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Prepositions in
Hinamira function as clitics attached to the nouns they modify. They are indicated with a dash, although older literature might find them written as separate words or all in one word.Nas-mahina, telasa
Quote from Traditional Lullaby
nas=mahin-aof=moon-SGSingular (number)
one countable entity.DEFDefinite
"the" tel-asa
dream-2Second person (person)
addressee (you).IMPImperative (mood)
command
Seina nezel na as-kulo.
Excerpt from Larger Translation
sein-a
breath-1First person (person)
speaker, signer, etc; I.SGSingular (number)
one countable entity.ANAnimate (gender/class)
alive, moving nezel
busily na
1First person (person)
speaker, signer, etc; I.SGSingular (number)
one countable entity.ANAnimate (gender/class)
alive, moving as=kulo
at=now
Like many clitics, Hinamira clitics are mostly worn-down adpositions. Despite Hinamira's general trend towards head-initial constructions, postpositions morphed almost spontaneously into prepositions, which then blended with the word they modified. This tendency is more or less borne out of the fact that modifying nouns go before the head, unlike other modifiers.
While heavy usage of certain clitics feels traditional, it's actually more prolific in modern. Almost every noun that can be dislocated is dislocated in Hinamira Makaha, and speakers will occasionally use a clitic where one doesn't belong in order to keep to the structure. For example, the greeting, "Ra-na, im-ter, ahana na ter," is grammatically correct at just "ahana na ter," but the structure is so common that modern speakers add in the dislocation at the beginning.
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