nga³ expresses regret or blame: if only…, you should have…

Part of Speech	modal
Phonetic Form	ŋa

• • expresses regret or blame: if only…, you should have…
  • • Disc

  Syntactic Restriction

  exclamative sentence, Irrealis verb

  • • Example 941:
      

      Ia ni-mui, nga u-ium’ u-viñ' ene!

      I didn't know, you should have first told me!

    • Example 1923:
      

      Nga ni-anu!

      I wish I could drink it!

    • Example 1924:
      

      Nga u-ka wik iune!

      If only you had come a whole week!

Related entries

• Heterosemes:
  • nga¹ as, like / discourse technique allowing to compare elements of fiction (age of characters, physical distances) with actual elements of the discourse situation
  • nga² as, like / when, whenever; every time / if, in case