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I (d) The verb da-ya to say so takes these elements ahviijs: 



da-n-ya'°?iu I sa}' so 

 da-dEp-ya'°nErn we say so 

 da-iii-ya'n you (singular) say so 

 da-vi-SEm-ya'°nsEiii ye sa}' so 

 da-yat he says, they say 



Adverbs like g'ik again are placed here following the subjective 

 pronoun, including iii-seih. 



da-m-SEm g'ik ya'^nssvi ye say so again 



§ SO. Use of the Objeefire 



(a) The objective is used to express the subject of the intransitive 

 verb. 



sl'°pgE)i n I am sick 



dEin al tgi-ks-qa! garni but I shall (go) down tirst {dErn future; 



al but; tgi- down; k>i- extreme; qaga tirst) 

 ada dEin l.'i-o'ksEJi then you will drop on (it) {dda then; Hi- on; 



oks to drop) 

 sa-o'kst suddenly he dropped 

 da wul dzo'xsEmt when you camped (da at [see § 28]; ivid 



being; dsog to camp) 

 mE'la hasa'gau tell that I wish 

 ts!ElEin-ks-ixala'n a I am the last one behind 



{])) The objective is used to express the object of the transitive 

 verb. Examples have been given in § 49, h. 



{c) The objective is used in the indicative of the transitive verb 

 when the object is a third person or a noun. ^Vhen the object is a 

 third person pronoun, the objective -t is added to the objective pro- 

 noun. 



6'yut 1 hit it 



d'ytnt you (singular) hit him 



6'ytmt we hit it 



HE la dzaJkdEint gu' ! we have killed this one 



dEm dza'kdut I will kill him 



6'yu haPs I hit the dog 



{d) The objective is used in a periphrastic conjugation of the 

 transitive verb, in which the objective pronoun is repeated in the 

 form of the independent pronoun. 



ni'°dzut n.'E'i'En I see thee (literally: I see it, thee) 

 dE7n dzalgdEn nlE'ryu you (singular) will kill me 

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