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tẽ ʌilis/e
tẽ ɑ-il-is/e
2SG.NOM come-PP-2.PST

'You came.' (non-honorific)
b. तू समझलऽ ।

tu sʌmʌȷ ̈ lʌ
tu sʌmʌȷ ̈ -ʌl-ʌ
2SG.NOM understand-PP-2.PST.MH

'You understood.' (mid-honorific-masculine) (06.044)
c. तू समझलू ।

tu sʌmʌȷ ̈ lu
tu sʌmʌȷ ̈ -ʌl-u
2SG.NOM understand-PP-2.PST.F.MH
'You understood.' (mid-honorific-feminine)

Going through examples (15a-c), the second person non-honorific subject तेँ

/tẽ/ is not obligatory for its finite verb to be marked for gender as in (15a), but the
second person mid-honorific subject तू /tu/ is specified for the gender by the gender

marker attached with finite verb in (15b-c). But if the finite verb is unmarked, it
symbolizes masculine gender in Bhojpuri. Besides, a Bhojpuri finite verb is always

marked for gender according to its subject as its neighbours Hindi (Koul, 2008:40-41)
and Nepali (Adhikari 2016:132-5).

Likewise, Bhojpuri adjectives are also morphologically marked for gender as
shown in (37) though it is not obligatory.

(iii) Classifiers
Bhojpuri employs no classifiers with nouns. Besides, numeral adjectival

pronoun is suffixed with the very much common classifier -गो /-ɡo/ and used as
subject or object of a clause as shown in (16a-b).

(16) a. अभीन तक एगो त आइल बा ।

ʌb ̤ in tʌk eɡo tʌ ɑil bɑ
ʌb ̤ in tʌk ek-ɡo tʌ ɑ-il bɑ
now till one-CLF COND come-INF be.3SG.PRES

'The only one has come till now.'

b. अब एगो देखतानी ... ।

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