-'de
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "de"
Ye'kwana
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-'de
- Used on nonpast finite verb forms to indicate that the action described by the verb will or must be performed later, after some delay.
Usage notes
[edit]This morpheme is properly a clitic rather than a suffix.
Most often used with various imperative markers, -kö, -iye, -'ñojo, -i and -'no, to form a delayed imperative, but also with the nonpast marker -a and future markers -tai and -ta.
References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “-'de”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 160–161