Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Locatives

These work in conjunction with demonstratives and in Ibanag, they are used to emphasize the demonstratives.

  • Here - Taw
  • There - Tatun (by person being spoken to)
  • There - Tari (far from both speaker and person being spoken to)
  • There - Turi (far, absent or occuring in the past)
Examples
  • Yaw abbing taw (This child here)
  • Yatun itubang tatun (That chair/seat there)
  • Yari balay tari (That house over there)
  • Yuri madjan turi (That maid in the past)
Vocabulary
abbing - child
itubang - chair/seat
balay - house *can also be pronounced "bale"
madjan - a house maid

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