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You write-PERF AUX-FUT.2(NH)

'You shall have written.'

(ii) Certainty

Certainty denotes that the speaker is emphasizing that the proposition is true. The
marker for certainty is -- in Bhojpuri. It is directly suffixed to the root of the

verb.

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 

--

I eat-CERT do-FUT.1

'I will certainly eat.'

 

--

You eat-CERT do-FUT.2

'You will certainly eat.'

 

--

Ram read-CERT do-FUT.3(NH)

'Ram will certainly read.'

(iii) Negation

Crystal (2003:310) defines that negativization is a process or construction in

grammatical and semantic analysis which typically expresses the contradiction of
some or all of a sentence's meaning. In Bhojpuri  and  are the negativizing

morphemes, which are prefixed to the verb to negativize the clause or sentence. If two
verbs are concatenated, the negative morpheme precedes the verb stem. The negative

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