-п

Tuvan

Etymology

Cognate with Turkish -p.

Suffix

-п • (-p)

1. Agglutinated after a verb stem which ends in a vowel, forming its affirmative modal converbal form
   1. Used to form a verb in a specific grammatical aspect, with auxiliary турар (turar), олурар (olurar), чыдар (çıdar) or чоруур (çoruur)

      Бижип тур мен. ― Bijip tur men. ― I am writing. (progressive)

Derived terms

• (epenthetic forms) -ип (-ip), -үп (-üp), -ып (-ıp), -уп (-up)

See also

• -вейн (-veyn), -вайн (-vayn)
• -й (-y)
• -геш (-geş), -гаш (-gaş)