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Re: corrected verb endings for classifiers tu/tu'a/tu'u

The verb ending "-f" means that the classifier default is one argument, and it's dynamic, not static as I mistakenly wrote earlier.
The complete list of verb endings is:
ending  # args  stat/dyn
p             1        s
b             2        s
f              1        d
v              2        d
m            3        d
 
There are no classifiers with a default of 3 arguments that are also static.
 
Imperative verb endings indicate the number of arguments only, not the dynamicity, and they are:
x             1
h             2
q             3
 
stevo

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:58 AM, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@hidden.email> wrote:
I was trying to translate a sentence into Saweli when I realized that the verb as given in the dictionary could take only one argument, the subject. Yet my sentence required an object, and the default of that classifier was A/P-d. It turns out that the verb endings for the classifiers tu/tu'a/tu'u should have been "-v" (meaning 2 arguments, dynamic) instead of "-f" (1 arg, static). So I've corrected them.
 
My translation of the sentence is "Ye'ujon tu'atrov wa'ufeti zonpit." I heard the original English sentence in a podcast today. 
 
stevo