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Warlpiri
Pronunciation
Verb
yiin-purami
- to count
Nyampu-jana nyangka parlpa-warnu, nyajangu? Kulalpa-jana nganangku nyampurraju yiin-purayarla.- Look at the stars up there, how many are they? No one is able to count them.[1]
Inflection
Conjugation of yiin-purami
† The andative is inflected like a verb of the ni-class (5th class)
Synonyms
References
- ^ Stephen M. Swartz (2012) “Interactive Warlpiri—English Dictionary: with English—Warlpiri finderlist”, in ausil.org, 2nd edition, Darwin: Australian Society for Indigenous Languages (AuSIL)