deep (of water, snow, etc.)

Theme: 
ø-dlaan~ (ça state)
for water, snow, etc. to be deep, to be piled thickly
Naish-Story: 
ya-dlaan
Notes: 
This verb is one of a very small set of dimensional verbs with extensional imperfective forms (Leer, 1991). It is distinguished by an imperfective form whch requires the ça- conjugation prefix.

Paradigm Forms


Imperfective (+) (doing it; does it)
3s: 
çaadlaan
it's deep

Imperfective (-) (not doing it; doesn't do it)
3s: 
tlél çwadlaan
it's not deep

Progressive imperfective (+) ((in the process of) doing it)
3s: 
yei nadlán
it's getting deep

Repetitive imperfective (+) (does it (regularly))
3s: 
yei dlánch
it gets deep (regularly)

Perfective (+) (did it)
3s: 
woodlaan
it became deep

Perfective (-) (didn't do it)
3s: 
tlél wudlaan
it didn't become deep

Perfective habitual (+) (does it (every time))
3s: 
çadlánch
it gets deep (every time)

Perfective habitual (-) (hasn't done it yet)
3s: 
[does not occur]

Future (+) (going to do it)
3s: 
yei kçwadláan
it will get deep

Future (-) (not going to do it)
3s: 
tlél yei kçwadlaan
it won't get deep

Hortative (+) (let him/her do it)
3s: 
[does not occur]

Potential attributive (+) (can't do it)
3s: 
tlél aadé çwaadlaani yé
no way can it get deep

Potential decessive (+) (would have done it)
3s: 
çwadlaanín
it would have gotten deep

Conditional (+) (if/when s/he does it)
3s: 
çadlánni
if/when it gets deep