Subjects and Objects in Verbs |
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Spanish verb endings indicate the subject of a sentence. | ||||
| hablo | ‘I speak’ | ||||
| hablas | ‘you speak’ | ||||
| habla | ‘he/she/it speaks’ | ||||
| Isthmus Zapotec verb endings also indicate subjects. | |||||
| rizaya' | ‘I walk’ | ||||
| rizalu' | ‘you walk’ | ||||
| rizabe | ‘he/she/it walks’ | ||||
| Subject endings attach to the Mayo verb only if there is no other word in the sentence to which it may attach. | |||||
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téba'urene
hunger-I |
‘I am hungry’ | ||||
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béjane
already-I |
téba'ure
hunger |
‘I am already hungry’ | |||
| In Tzeltal, spoken in Chiapas, the subject of a transitive verb is indicated at the beginning, while the subject of the intransitive verb is indicated with an ending. | |||||
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I know | ||||
| ana | you know | ||||
| sna | he/she/it knows | ||||
| talon | I went | ||||
| talat | you went | ||||
| tal | he/she/it went | ||||
| Both subjects and objects are indicated at the beginning of Nahuatl verbs, spoken in the State of Michoacán. | |||||
| nikita | I see him | ||||
| tikita | you see him | ||||
| kita | he sees him | ||||
| nimitsita | I see you | ||||
| mitsita | he sees you | ||||
| tinechita | you see me | ||||
| nechita | he sees me | ||||
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