First person plural: Difference between revisions

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The pronoun of first person plural is WI (184x) or WY (26x).

Conjugation seems to be the same as for third person plural, but this has not been studied yet.

List of verbs that are used more than once (in Oera Linda) in first person plural:

verb	transl.	total	present	past
HÀVA, NÀVA	(not) have	48	23	25
WÉSA	be	27	22	5
WILLA, NILLA	(not) will, wish	24	13	11
MÜGA	may	19	14	5
SKILA*	shall	18	10	8
KVMA	come	15	5	10
MOTA	must	8	4	4
AGA	ought	4	4	0
WINNA	win	3	2	1
GÁ	go	3	0	3
WRDA	become	3	0	3
DVA	do	2	1	1
LEDSA	lay, lie	2	1	1
KUNNA	can	2	0	2
SJA	see	2	0	2

* Infinitive SKILA is a reconstruction, not found anywhere in the texts.

Irregular: WÉSA — WI SEND (En: we are, Ge: wir sind, Du: wij zijn)

25x -ATH: WILLATH (13, incl. 1 NILLATH) HÀVATH (6 incl. 3 NÀVATH), KVMATH (2), LEDSATH, MÜGATH, RÉKENJATH, WINSTATH (all 1)

21x -ON: HÀVON (7), MÜGON (6), AGON (4), MOTON (4)

18x -E: HÀVE (9 incl. 1 NÀVE), MÜGE (6), KVME, SKILE, STÁNE (all 1)

17x -A: KVMA (2), WINNA (2), VRDVA, FÁTA, FINDA, FÍRJA, HÀVA, HELPA, VPHOLDA, KÀLTA, MÁKJA, MÜGA, REDDA, SNAKKA, THVRA, WINNA (all 1)

9x -UN: only SKILUN

In-verb variety

The most frequent verb (23x) HÀVA has four varieties:

MÜGA (14x):

SKILA (10x):

KVMA (total 5x) is twice used as KVMA, twice as KVMATH and once as KVME.

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 * 1x <span class="fryas">SKILE</span> (ch. 4f, which also has 4x <span class="fryas">SKILUN</span>)
-<span class="fryas">KVMA</span> (total 4x) is twice used as <span class="fryas">KVMA</span> and twice as <span class="fryas">KVMATH</span>.
+<span class="fryas">KVMA</span> (total 5x) is twice used as <span class="fryas">KVMA</span>, twice as <span class="fryas">KVMATH</span> and once as <span class="fryas">KVME</span>.
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