-jhege
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Wutunhua
Etymology
Pronunciation
Suffix
-jhege
- The paucal suffix; attached to nouns to indicate that there are a few of them.
- jashe-de zhawa-jhege zang-li wanlan-di-li.
- [A couple of] Jashe's workers are working in Tibet.
- Attached after a series of several nouns to emphasize that the group that the nouns make up is not large in number.
- jashe da gu-de adia da asak-jhege bijin qhi-gu-ma-li.
- Jashe and the monk and the sister-in-law [of his family] went to Beijing.
- Attached after a noun to indicate that the statement applies generally for members of the group, whereas the plural suffix -dera implies that the statement applies to certain particular members.
- ha-jhege kuize-liangge huan xhe-di-li.
- Chinese people [in general] eat with chopsticks.
See also
- -dera (plural suffix)
References
- Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN
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