deep (of water, snow, etc.)
Theme:
ø-dlaan~ (ça state)
for water, snow, etc. to be deep, to be piled thickly
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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