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Bearing a closer resemblance to post-positions are: 



The last of these is always used after the verb. 

 Even nouns and verbs are used exactly as if the}^ were conceived 

 of as post-positions: as, 



M'tq.'i tux ya'wagut yucd'wAt adJA'q dAX the woman went through 

 the houses after she had killed it {Mt house; -q.'i collective; 

 tux through; ya- wa- verbal prefixes [§ 15.3 ; §18.2]; gu to go; -t 

 [§ 20.1]; 7/M- demonstrative ; cd'wAt womsLu; ait; dJAq to IdW; 

 dAX from) 



aq.'i'ts CATitu'de Jcax a'odigeq! he put (his coat) on to go down 

 into the midst of its tentacles (a- it; q!its tentacles; CAn-tu'de 

 into the midst of; Tcax adverbial; a- indefinite pronoun; o- di- 

 prefixes [§17.2; § 18.3]; ^gg.' to do quickly) 



ayAlane's.'awe awA'n when he had sharpened the edges of it (a- 

 indefinite pronoun; yA- Ia- verbal prefixes [§ 15.3; § 18.4]; 

 nes! to sharpen; awe when; a it; id An edges) 



As, on account of their phonetic weakness, the post-positions t, n, 

 x, and q! must always be agglutinated to some other word, they 

 sometimes have the appearance of cases, but the first of these is sim- 

 ply a contraction of de; and the distinction in use between all of 

 them and the syllabic post-positions is not marked enough to justify 

 a separate classification. 



The adverbs de, ke, and ye are essential to certain verbs, and the 

 same may be said of At something with the verbs xa to eat and 



XUn TO START. 



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