verbal conjugation of Ebo Nganagam
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[comments] enn Ebo Nganagam verbs can conjugate according to different foci and persons. All verbs listed in the dictionary are in the i personal agent focus forms.
Below are affixes used for verbs:
Focus conjugation:
- agent focus: -om
- patient focus: -and
- location focus: -an
-- goal focus: -on
-- source/reason focus: -en
- instrument focus: -im
- benefactive focus: -abow/-embow
- comitative focus: -id
Personal agreement:
direct:
- 1.sg: -ele
- 1.excl.du: -elem
- 1.incl.du: -elom
- 1.excl.pl: -elet
- 1.incl.pl: -elot
- 2.sg: -wo
- 2.pl: -wot
- 3.sg: -a
- 3.pl: -at
- impersonal: -i
- analytic form: -an
indirect:
- 1.sg: -(e)ne
- 1.excl.du: -(e)nem
- 1.incl.du: -(e)nom
- 1.excl.pl: -(e)net
- 1.incl.pl: -(e)not
- 2.sg: -(e)ngo
- 2.pl: -(e)ngot
- 3.sg: -(e)me
- 3.pl: -(e)met
Tense-Aspect-Mood:
imperfective: -
perfective: ki-
subjunctive: mo-(the initial consonant of the stem undergo the nasalization mutation)/mor-(used before stems starting with vowels)
imperative: -ot(added after focus suffix)(prohibitive is formed by adding the negation prefix to the imperative form of the verb)
Negation: ran-(the initial consonant of the stem undergo the nasalization mutation)/ra-(used before stems starting with sonorants other than /r/)/na-(used before stems starting with /r/) ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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