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is another example, and the benefactive case ending in
Quechua is
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A Grammar of Muylaq' Aymara: Aymara as spoken in
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I (to) myself smoke a cigarette. I (to) myself do a pause.)
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365:, the benefactive case is marked with -
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552:Formally, those forms coincide with
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910:Possession, companion, instrument
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458:, one finds expressions like:
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456:Rhinelandic colloquial German
1114:Postpositional/Prepositional
432:khuchi -ja -naka -taki -w(a)
1389:Linguistic morphology stubs
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499:(to pray) when it is used
484:(for myself) is optional.
435:pig -1.POSS -PL -BEN -DECL
348:. Tangkhul-Naga (from the
203:Reflexives and reciprocals
715:Location, time, direction
658:Morphosyntactic alignment
641:Morphosyntactic alignment
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1384:Transitivity and valency
125:Transitivity and valency
535:fume une cigarette. Je
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235:Linguistics portal
1326:linguistic morphology
1263:Coler, Matt (2015).
556:in these languages.
217:Reciprocal (grammar)
43:improve this article
310:" or "This book is
489:Colognian language
373:khuchijanakatakiw.
221:Reciprocal pronoun
197:Impersonal passive
58:"Benefactive case"
1379:Grammatical cases
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620:Grammatical cases
584:Ditransitive verb
521:(He is praying).
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209:Reflexive pronoun
147:Ditransitive verb
139:Intransitive verb
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881:Superelative
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41:Please help
36:verification
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1164:Old English
1132:Declensions
1081:Benefactive
1060:Translative
1045:Orientative
1030:Instructive
995:Comparative
947:-comitative
901:Terminative
891:Superlative
886:Superessive
841:Postelative
319:dative case
302:used where
277:abbreviated
193:Antipassive
170:Benefactive
166:Applicative
1373:Categories
1298:2024-03-29
1250:References
1223:Lithuanian
1055:Semblative
964:Possessive
927:Comitative
861:Subelative
846:Postessive
831:Pertingent
804:Limitative
742:Apudessive
691:Nominative
671:Accusative
666:Absolutive
636:Declension
554:reflexives
465:Ich rauch
183:decreasing
156:increasing
69:newspapers
1203:Hungarian
1050:Revertive
990:Adverbial
974:Sociative
969:Privative
959:Possessed
871:Sublative
866:Subessive
851:Prolative
826:Perlative
794:Intrative
784:Inelative
769:Egressive
762:-temporal
737:Antessive
701:Partitive
510:Hä deiht
162:Causative
1176:Georgian
1119:Vocative
1076:Aversive
1022:Exessive
1000:Equative
954:Ornative
937:Genitive
922:Caritive
917:Abessive
896:Temporal
809:Locative
789:Inessive
779:Illative
752:Delative
732:Allative
727:Adessive
722:Ablative
706:Pegative
681:Ergative
578:See also
1228:Russian
1218:Latvian
1171:Finnish
1154:English
1010:-formal
774:Elative
696:Oblique
566:I love
487:In the
342:Quechua
338:-entzat
312:for Bob
308:for Tom
304:English
298:) is a
189:Passive
181:Valence
154:Valence
83:scholar
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1238:Slovak
1193:Gothic
1181:German
1091:-final
1086:Causal
1026:Formal
1015:-modal
1005:Essive
932:Dative
821:Medial
799:Lative
676:Direct
377:khuchi
363:Aymara
355:-wiʋaŋ
334:Basque
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1324:This
1213:Latin
1208:Irish
1198:Hindi
1144:Czech
1107:Other
1098:Final
1035:Modal
650:Cases
514:bedde
512:sesch
495:bedde
422:-w(a)
411:-taki
400:-naka
323:Latin
321:. In
90:JSTOR
76:books
1330:stub
1269:ISBN
427:DECL
394:POSS
367:taki
346:-paq
271:The
62:news
531:Je
480:mer
467:mer
416:BEN
385:-ja
380:pig
361:In
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