Item 04: Reverend William Ridley 'Kamilaroi Grammar and Vocabulary', 1855. - Page 12

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Verbs

The modifications of verbs are very numerous and exact.

gīr an adverb of emphasis (=indeed) is frequently used with the past indicative.

There are causative and permissive voices answering to the Hebrew hiphil and hophal:

for example from ƞummil = see is formed
ƞummilmulle = caused to see, shewed.

from būma = strike, beat, is formed
būmānabille = will allow  to be beaten.

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