mbehah
South Slavey
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mbehah (stem -mbehah-)
- diminutive of mbeh: small knife
Inflection
[edit]Possessive inflection of mbehah (-mbéhah)
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | sembéhah | naxembéhah | |
| 2nd person | nembéhah | ||
| 3rd person | 1) | — | gimbéhah |
| 2) | membéhah | gombéhah | |
| 4th person | yembéhah | ||
| reflexive | sp. | ɂedembéhah | kedembéhah |
| unsp. | dembéhah | ||
| reciprocal | — | ɂełembéhah | |
| indefinite | ɂembéhah | ||
| areal | gombéhah | ||
| 1) Used when the subject is a group of human beings and the object is singular. 2) Used when the previous condition does not apply. | |||
References
[edit]- Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 250