| VAI Short-Vowel Final Inflection |
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Animate intransitive verbs that end in short vowels lose this vowel in the first and second person singular forms of the independent order, but otherwise they are identical in inflection to Long-Vowel Final VAI verbs. In the chart below, loss of the vowel is signalled with an underscore (_).
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Independent niimi 'dance' |
Positive |
Negative Gaawiin... |
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I |
niniim_ I dance |
niniimisii(n) I do not dance |
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you (sg.) |
giniim_ you dance |
giniimisii(n) you do not dance |
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s/he (ANsg) |
niimi s/he dances |
niimisii(n) s/he does not dance |
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his/her daughter(s) odaanisan |
niimiwan (his/her daughter) dances |
niimisiiwan (his/her daughter) does not dance |
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we (but not you) |
niniimimin we (but not you) dance |
niniimisiimin we (but not you) don't dance |
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we (you and I) |
giniimimin we (you and I) dance |
giniimisiimin we (you and I) don't dance |
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you (pl.) |
giniimim you (pl.) dance |
giniimisiim you (pl.) don't dance |
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they |
niimiwag they dance |
niimisiiwag they don't dance |
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indefinite |
niimim dancing is taking place |
niimisiim dancing isn't taking place |
| Imperative | Positive |
Negative Gego... |
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you (sg.) |
niimin dance! (you sg) |
niimiken don't (you sg.) dance! |
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you (pl.) |
niimig, niimiyog dance! (you pl) |
niimikegon don't (you pl.) dance! |
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we (you and I) |
niimidaa let's dance! |
niimisiidaa let's not dance! |
| Conjunct | Positive |
Negative (no negative particle) |
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I |
niimiyaan (that) I dance |
niimisiwaan (that) I don't dance |
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you (sg.) |
niimiyan (that) you dance |
niimisiwan (that) you don't dance |
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s/he |
niimid (that) s/he dances |
niimisig (that) s/he doesn't dance |
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his/her daughter(s) odaanisan |
niiminid (that) her/his daughter dances |
niimisinig (that) her/his daughter doesn't dance |
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we (but not you) |
niimiyaang (that) we (but not you) dance |
niimisiwaang (that) we (but not you) don't dance |
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we (you and I) |
niimiyang (that) we (you and I) dance |
niimisiwang (that) we (you and I) don't dance |
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you (pl.) |
niimiyeg (that) you (pl.) dance |
niimisiweg (that) you (pl.) don't dance |
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they |
niimiwaad (that) they dance |
niimisigwaa (that) they don't dance |
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indefinite |
niiming (that) dancing takes place |
niimising (that) dancing doesn't take place |