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| + | ===Parts of Speech=== | ||
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| + | ==Verbs== | ||
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| + | Purépechan is a very agglutinative language, meaning that the words in the language are made by stringing together morphemes. A large portion of the agglutination happens in the verbs. Adding suffixes to the words can help users express locative, directional, causative, voice/valency, desiderative, adverbial, third person plural object, aspect, tense, irrealis, mood, and person and number. | ||
| + | A few examples we: | ||
| + | kw’i<v><pprs><sub/ass><p1><sg> ↔ kw’ixakani | ||
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| + | eshé<v><pprs><pres><1/2ind><p1><sg> ↔ eshéshakani | ||
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| + | jwá<v><perf><past><3ind> ↔ jwáspti | ||
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| + | *singular | ||
| + | *plural | ||
| + | *determinants | ||
| + | *verbs | ||
| + | *roots | ||
| + | *aspect | ||
| + | *tense | ||
| + | *ireealis | ||
| + | *mood | ||
| + | *person and number | ||
Revision as of 03:39, 5 March 2021
Purépechan Grammar
Parts of Speech
Verbs
Purépechan is a very agglutinative language, meaning that the words in the language are made by stringing together morphemes. A large portion of the agglutination happens in the verbs. Adding suffixes to the words can help users express locative, directional, causative, voice/valency, desiderative, adverbial, third person plural object, aspect, tense, irrealis, mood, and person and number. A few examples we: kw’i<v><pprs><p1><sg> ↔ kw’ixakani
eshé<v><pprs><pres><1/2ind><p1><sg> ↔ eshéshakani
jwá<v><perf><past><3ind> ↔ jwáspti
- singular
- plural
- determinants
- verbs
- roots
- aspect
- tense
- ireealis
- mood
- person and number
