starve

Theme: 
O-ø-laaxw~ (ø event)
for O to be starving, starved
Naish-Story: 
ya-laaxw

Paradigm Forms


Imperfective (+) (doing it; does it)
3s: 
[does not occur]

Progressive imperfective (+) ((in the process of) doing it)
1s: 
yaa ýat naláxw
I am starving
3s: 
yaa naláxw
he/she/it is starving

Repetitive imperfective (+) (does it (regularly))
3s: 
[does not occur]

Perfective (+) (did it)
1s: 
ýat uwaláxw
I starved
3s: 
uwaláxw
he/she/it starved

Perfective (-) (didn't do it)
1s: 
tlél ýat wulaaxw
I didn't starve
3s: 
tlél wulaaxw
he/she/it didn't starve

Perfective habitual (+) (does it (every time))
1s: 
ýat ulaaxwch
I starve (every time)
3s: 
ulaaxwch
s/he starves (every time)

Perfective habitual (-) (hasn't done it yet)
1s: 
tlél ýat ulaaxwch
I haven't starved yet
3s: 
tlél ulaaxwch
he/she/it hasn't starved yet

Future (+) (going to do it)
1s: 
ýat guçwaláaxw
I will starve
3s: 
guçwaláaxw
he/she/it will starve

Future (-) (not going to do it)
1s: 
tlél ýat guçwalaaxw
I won't starve
3s: 
tlél guçwalaaxw
he/she/it won't starve

Hortative (+) (let him/her do it)
1s: 
(ch'a) ýat çalaaxw (dé)
(just) let me starve (now)
3s: 
(ch'a) çalaaxw (dé)
(just) let let him/her/it starve (now)

Potential attributive (+) (can't do it)
1s: 
tlél aadé ýat çwaalaaxu yé
no way can I starve
3s: 
tlél aadé çwaalaaxu yé
no way can he/she/it starve

Potential decessive (+) (would have done it)
1s: 
ýat çwalaaxún
I would have starved
3s: 
çwalaaxún
he/she/it would have staved

Conditional (+) (if/when s/he does it)
1s: 
ýat wulaaxú
if/when I starve
3s: 
wulaaxú
if/when he/she/it starves

Example(s):

Yaý yaa has yanaláxw wé çuwakaan.
The deer are starving.