Case: case
| Values: | Ins | Com | Per | Abl | All | Abe | Dat | Ine | Loc | Disp |
Case
Ins: Instrumental
Instrumental is bla bla bla bla
Examples
- ɨβɨtɨr-(ɨ)-pe “To the mountain”
Com: Comitative
is used for the referential marker (also called argumentative, nominal). All lexical roots in Tupinambá are predicates. In order for these to function as arguments of predicates the Ref marker is used. Its function is nothing like that of nominal cases.
Examples
- t-uβ “father (existential predicate) / there is a father / be a father / have a father”
- t-uβ-a “A/the father(s)”
Sim: Similative
Examples
- ok-(ɨ)-pe “In the house”
Abl: Ablative
Examples
- t-uβ-amo “as / in the quality of a father”
All: Allative
Examples
- t-uβ-amo “as / in the quality of a father”
Abe: Abesive
The vocative can be expressed, among others, by the sufix we attached to the lexical root.
Examples
- ʃe-ruβ-we “ Oh, my father!”
Dat: Dative
Examples
- t-uβ-we “To the father”
Ine: Inessive
Examples
- Ip cú gət icɨ bət. (lit. fish big swam water in) “The big fish swam in the water.”
Loc: Locative
Examples
- t-uβ-we “To the father”
Disp: Dispersive
Examples
Case in other languages: [am] [apu] [arr] [bej] [bg] [cs] [el] [eme] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [ga] [gn] [grc] [gub] [hu] [hy] [ka] [kmr] [koi] [kpv] [ky] [mdf] [myu] [myv] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tl] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj]