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b. उहो नेपािलए रहल) ।

uɦo nepɑlie rʌɦlẽ
u-ɦo nepɑl-i-e rʌɦ-ʌl-ẽ
3SG.DIST.NOM-EMPH Nepal-ADJ-EMPH live-PP-PST.H

'He was also Nepali.' (04.078)

Examples (108a-b) show that the inclusive emphatic clitic -हो /-ɦo/ is
cliticized with personal pronouns तू /tu/ 'you' and उ /u/ 'he' respectively.

f) The inclusive emphatic -! /-ɦu/

(109) a. हमf मानेम ।

,ɦʌmɦu mɑnem
ɦʌm-ɦu mɑn-em

1SG.NOM-EMPH realize-FUT.H
'I also admit.' (06.045)

b. तुf चल घरे ।
tuɦu cʌlʌ ɡ ̈ ʌre

tu-ɦu cʌl-ʌ ɡ ̈ ʌr-e
2SG.NOM-EMPH walk-IMP-MH home-LOC

'Please (you also) go home.'
c. घरf जाएके बा ।

ɡ ̈ ʌrɦu jɑeke bɑ
ɡ ̈ ʌr-ɦu jɑ-e-ke bɑ

home-EMPH go-PUR-PUR 3SG.PRES
'It is essential to go home, too.'

Examples (109a-c) show that the inclusive emphatic clitic -f /-ɦu/ is cliticized
with personal pronouns and nouns respectively.

As already discussed, the clitics are cliticized with all word classes in Bhojpuri.
6.2.10 Particles

The particle is considered as an ever-present impression in syntax. It is
peculiar in terms of semantics and distributions in contrast to those established in

word classes. Thus 'particle' is a cover term for items that do not fit easily into
syntactic and semantic generalizations about the language and it covers any

indeclinable, or uninflectable, item; its use is particularly common for languages, like

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