Hapi
kíso-soa háhíí-h a-kaai-hi-áh=kóa
cheese-PL accidentally-TRANS PASS-be.bad-INT.PAST-CAUS-DECL
‘The cheeses have deteriorated.’
Notes
- I have returned!
- the adverbal háhíí marks an action as being performed 'accidentally', but may also express that an action has 'happened just like that', without external influence. Like all adverbals, háhíí takes a transitivity agreement suffix, in this case, -h.
- the verbal morphology of our VP head here is quite funky. In this example, the verb stem takes both the causative and the passive affixes. Since in most cases, the passive can only be marked on a transitive verb, the causative's semantics are applied first. kaai 'to be bad', kaai-[...]-áh 'to make bad', a-kaai-[...]-áh 'to be made bad'.
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