4. SYNTAX
- laD,kaoM/laD,ikyaaoM nao AKbaar pZ,a.
larkõ/larkiyõ ne axba:r parha:.
boys-/girls-erg newspaper read
The boys/girls read the newspaper. - maOMnao/hmanao iflma doKI.
m ́~ne/hamne film dekhi:.
I-erg/we-erg film-fs saw-fs
I/we saw a film. - tUnaoo/tumanaooo/Aapnaoo iktaba pZ,I.
tu:ne/tumne/a:pne kita:b parhi:.
you-erg book-fs read-fs
You read a book. - tumanaooo/Aapnaoo kusaI- doKI.
tumne/a:pne kursi: dekhi:.
you-erg chair saw-fs
You saw a chair.
The plural forms of personal pronouns are used as honorific
singular/plural subjects as well.
Psychological predicates such as gaussaa Aanaa gussa: a:na: ‘to be angry
or irritated’, and laganaa lagna: ‘seem’ always take a dative subject
using a dative case marker and the postposition kao ko.
- laD,ko kao gaussaa Aayaa.
larke ko gussa: a:ya:.
boy-obl to anger came
The boy was angry. - ]sao caaoT lagaI.
use cot lagi:.
he-dat injury struck
He got injured.
4.3.2.1. Direct Object
Verbs are conventionally divided into intransitive and transitive on
the basis of whether they take a noun phrase as an object. Transitive