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I Raju-GEN eat-CAUS give-PST-1

'I made Raju eat'.

Some derivatives stems are shown below, which are formed by morphological
process:

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 'to make'

 'to have someone hear'

'to have someone see'

 'to feed'

 'become fat'

During the derivation process, the derivational suffix - is added to the root, and a

verb stem is derived which bears the causative meaning. For instance:

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+'to be caught'

+'to heat'

+'cause someone to write'

+'cause someone to stand'

+'to have something picked up/ to cause someone to stand'

+'cause someone to do'

3.1.3 Compound stems

The third type of verb stems found in Bhojpuri is compound verb stems. They are

formed either by taking a primitive verb stem with noun, adjective or adverb or taking
a derivative stem with noun, adjective and adverb. In addition two different stems can
combine together with the help of a conjunctive participle to form compound verb

stem.
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