• Syntax

    1) noun phrase

    Mainaina
    white
    am
    3sg-POSS
    kunikai
    clothes
    your clothes are white
    comments: also
    Mainaina
    white
    kunikai-m
    clothes-3sg-POSS
    your clothes are white
    2) Verb phrase
    E
    3sg
    orea
    hit
    nuka-u
    back-1sg
    (s)he hit my back
    3) Prepositional phrase
    Irarikin
    beside
    te
    DET
    utero
    hotel
    beside the hotel
    4) Word order(transitive)
    E
    3sg
    kabuta
    drive
    te
    DET
    kaa
    car
    (s)he drives the car
    5) Declarative Sentence 2 (intransitive)
    I
    1sg
    kamatebwai
    study-(Pst)-3sg
    I study
    6) Yes/no questions
    Ko
    2sg
    kan
    want
    amwarake?
    eat
    Do you want to eat?
    7) Content questions
    Tera
    what-QUES
    ae
    Prog
    ko
    see-
    iangoia
    2sg
    What do you see?

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