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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. | 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: | A few examples we: | ||
| − | kw’i<v><pprs><sub/ass><p1><sg> ↔ | + | kw’i<v><pprs><sub/ass><p1><sg> ↔ kw’ixakani |
eshé<v><pprs><pres><1/2ind><p1><sg> ↔ eshéshakani | eshé<v><pprs><pres><1/2ind><p1><sg> ↔ eshéshakani | ||
Revision as of 23:40, 4 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
