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Navajo
Etymology
ha- (“up out”) + -yi- (modal) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier) + -bá (neuter perfective stem of root -BAʼ, “to be gray”).
Verb
haabá
- there is a gray outcropping or patch (on the mountainside)
- Dził bąąh haabá. ― There is a gray patch on the mountainside.
Usage notes
This verb is limited to expression in the third person.
This is a neuter verb that uses only the perfective stem.
Conjugation
Paradigm: Neuter perfective (yi), third person only, with da-shift.
| PERFECTIVE
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singular
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plural
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dist. plural
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| 3rd person
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haabá
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hadaasbá
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