~ve¹ interrogative verb

Part of Speech	verb, intransitive
Phonetic Form	(i·)ve
Tanema Equivalent	~ja
Lovono Equivalent	~wo

• • interrogative verb

  Encyclopedic Info

  Contrary to ~mikae* ‘do what’ and ~kae* ‘do how’ which both take a personal subject, ~ve always takes a (semantically impersonal) 3sg subject i-. The surface form is therefore always ive (for i-ve).

Related entries

• Main Entry:
  • ive interrogative verb enquiring about a whole situation / what happens? what's up? how's things? / what? Used when the speaker looks for his words to describe a whole event / (be) why? / what's up with ‹s.o., s.th.›?
• See also:
  • die i-meli feel contractions conducive to labour
  • ~mikae¹ do what? / … or what? Uttered when hesitating about a proper verb