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Transitive verbs occur with the full set of verbal auxiliaries : 



nfukAcA si 



zd,zi nfukAcA sgu 



nlukACA ti 



nfukA6A su 



zdzi niukACA su 



niukAcA Qu 



niukACA gu 



zd,zi niukACA gu 



niukACA d^u 



niukACA ziumA 



z^zi niukACA ziuniA 



niukACA diumA 



niukACA sduuriiA 



zdzi niukACA sd.umA 



niukACA z^uriiA 



niukACA dyuniA 



z^zi niukACA d^uniA 



niukACA d^'umA 



niukACA sguniA 



zdzi niukACA sdyuniA 



niukACA tuzuiriA 



ne'ekAfiane- skd.'i'^mASA 



zdzi n6'i*ekA6ane- scd.'i'dmASA 



ne^ekAcane- t^'i'emASA 



n6'i*ekAcane- Sd'^iiiAsA 



zdzi n^'i'ekAcane- §d?drhASA 



ne'i'ekA^ane- cd'dmASA 



n^'ekAcane- cd.'i'dmASA 



zd,zi n^'i'ekAcane- cd,'i*dihASA 



n6'6kA6ane- td^^niASA 



I will see him 



I won't see him 



maybe I will see him 



you will see him 



you won't see him 



maybe you will see him 



he will see him 



he won't see him 



maybe he will see him 



he (fourth person) will see him 



he won't see him 



maybe he will see him 



I will see you 



I won't see you 



maybe I will see you 



you will see me 



you won't see me 



maybe you will see me 



he will see me 



he won't see me 



maybe he will see me 



I will be seen 



I won't be seen 



maybe I will be seen 



you will be seen 



you won't be seen 



maybe you will be seen 



he will be seen 



he won't be seen 



maybe he will be seen 



Most intransitive verbs occur with those verbal auxiharies listed in 

 the first three rows of chart 6: 



nupE si 

 zdzi nupE sgu 

 nupE ti 

 niipE su 

 zdzi nupE su 



nupE QU 



nupE gu 

 zdzi nupe gu 

 nupE d^u 



I will eat 

 I won't eat 

 maybe I will eat 

 you will eat 

 you won't eat 

 maybe you will eat 

 he will eat 

 he won't eat 

 maybe he will eat 



A few intransitive verbs (those which are prefixed by sgu- or sku- 

 in the first person indicative) occur with the verbal auxiliaries which 

 normally express third person subject with first object, third person 

 subject with second person object, and fourth person subject with third 

 person object: 



mgai sgumA 

 z^zi nigai sdyumA 



/ will lie down 

 I won't lie down 



