3. MORPHOLOGY
- jaOsao BaI hao vah Aa jaaegaa.
j ́se bhi: ho vah a: ja:yega:.
somehow part be he com-fut
He will come somehow. - vah [sailae gayaa Saayad pOsao imalao.
vah isliye bhi: gaya: ša:yad p ́se milẽ.
he for this part went perhaps money get-subj
He went in the hope of getting money. - maOM na BaI jaa}Ð tuma ja,$r jaanaa.
m ́~ na bhi: ja:ũ: tum zaru:r ja:na:.
I neg part go-subj you definitely go-inf-imp
You should go, even if I don’t. - kBaI haÐ BaI kraogao?
kabhi: hã: bhi: karoge?
sometime yes part do-fut
Will you ever say yes? - yah BaI nahIM kraogao tao @yaa kraogaoo?
yeh bhi: nahĩ: karoge to kya: karoge?
this part neg do-fut part what do-fut
If you are not able to do this much, what else will you do?
The use of the particle BaI bhi: with different adverbs represents
different meanings: Aba BaI ab bhi: ‘even now’ tba BaI tab bhi: ‘even
then,’ ‘even so,’ jaba BaI jab bhi: ‘whenever,’ jahaÐ BaI jahã: bhi: ‘where
ever’ khIM BaI kahĩ: bhi: ‘anywhere,’ jahaÐ khIM BaI jahã: kahĩ: bhi: ‘in any
place whatsoever,’ ifr BaI phir bhi: ‘yet’ ‘even so.’
The particle BaI bhi: is used after certain case markers and /or
postpositions as well.
- ]sako pasa BaI kama nahIM hO.
uske pa:s bhi: ka:m nahĩ: h ́.
he-gen-abl near part work neg is
He, too, doesn’t have work.