Hapi
tàah pahíki-xí hása xóóh ihxoì-xí=kóa pàah-hóo paixàì kì-xàa-ha-tah
1sA submerge-REC.PAST loincloth FRUST.TRANS wash-REC.PAST=DECL river-LOC dirty 3SG:POSS-be-NMZ-PERL
‘I washed the shirt in the river in vain, because it was (still) dirty (afterwards).’
Notes
- In this example, a discontiguous SVC is present. The chain of verbs is interrupted by hása as the verb object and xóóh as a particle. If you want to know more on SVCs in Hapi, good, because I will post something about them soon: 😉
- In Hapi, to form an adverbial subordinate clause, the verb is nominalized and then receives a clause-specific morpheme. For temporal adverbial clauses, this is the locative marker -hóo, for purposive adverbial clauses it's the purposive marker -xapa and for causal clauses, as in this case, it's the perlative case marker -tah.
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