ánasa míini experience pain / suffer an injury

Part of Speech	intransitive verb
Literal Meaning	have pain
Root	ánasa mii

1. • experience pain

   Grammar Note

   The verb in this construction inflects with person and TAM morphology as is typical of finite verbs, with the caveat that this sense requires the verb bear imperfective aspect. The subject corresponds to the person or the part of the body that hurts; and if the subject is a body part, then the possessor of the body part can optionally be expressed as an oblique argument NP that bears the goal postposition <=íira>

   • • Example 105:
       

       Kw=ánaka miiyaakurá k=íira.

       My head was hurting.

2. • suffer an injury

   Grammar Note

   This sense requires that the verb bear a perfective aspect

   • • Example 106:
       

       Ánasa iina míi ikwani.

       This man got injured.

Related entries

• Subentry:
  • ánasa angrily / strongly, speaking of the intensity with which the sun shines
  • míini² have, possess; have an object in one’s control or possession / have an illness or disease / be a particular age; be a certain number of temporal units old