-'de

See also: Appendix:Variations of "de"

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [-ʔde]

Suffix

-'de

Used on nonpast finite verb forms to indicate that the action described by the verb will or must be performed later, after some delay.

Usage notes

This morpheme is properly a clitic rather than a suffix.

Most often used with various imperative markers, -kö, -iye, -'ñojo, -i and -'no, to form a delayed imperative, but also with the nonpast marker -a and future markers -tai and -ta.

References

Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “-'de”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 160–161