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an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences

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Usage examples (7)
  • One sentence should follow another without abrupt break; and, if continuative of it, adversative to it, or an inference from it, and the hearer needs to be advised of...
  • The functions of relatives are performed by position, explanatory or continuative clauses being made to precede directly the word they affect.
  • The verb garadjimbat (with transitive suffix - im and continuative aspect - bat) is from English scratch (and him and about) but means ` to dig. '
  • Thus, buchong “son” forms the plural bochang-i (contrast the objective buchong-a); enash “grandfather, ” the plural inash-a; the verb engtyim “to sleep” forms the...
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