haabá

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Etymology

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ha- (up out) + -yi- (modal) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier)-bá (neuter perfective stem of root -BAʼ, “to be gray”).

Verb

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haabá

  1. there is a gray outcropping or patch (on the mountainside)
    Dził bąąh haabá.There is a gray patch on the mountainside.

Usage notes

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This verb is limited to expression in the third person.

This is a neuter verb that uses only the perfective stem.

Conjugation

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Paradigm: Neuter perfective (yi), third person only, with da-shift.

PERFECTIVE singular plural dist. plural
3rd person haabá hadaasbá
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