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---

One quintal-GEN hundred kilogram be-PRES-3

'There is one hundred kilograms in one quintal.'

(ii) - 'to become' as non-stative verb.

- 'to become' as full verb acts as polar verb and join with a vector  'go' in a

compound verb expression.

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a. 

---

Seema teacher-FEM be go-PST-FEM.3SG

'Seema became a teacher.'

b. 

-

work be go-PST

'Work is done.'

c. 

--

He again again fail be go-PST-MAS.3

'He has been failed over and over again.'

5.5 

 is the negative copula in Bhojpuri, which exists in the present tense only. Its
positive form is . For example:

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a. 

He here is.

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