bene ere article construction for plural nouns of the 1st class

• • article construction for plural nouns of the 1st class
  • • grammar

  Comment

  The object article of the first class <bene>, which by itself indicates the singular, is followed by the associative article <ere>. <bene ere> is often spoken and written as a single word, i.e. <benere,>, but sometimes spoken and written as two words as illustrated by the following examples. There are 11 tokens in the corpus.

  • • Example 156:
      

      A Amerika saka vaanomaa haa roho bene ere Mark Mahaka bo Simon Rigamu ae a vuu tom sinana teve, ...

      The Americans first did not send Mark Mahaka and Simon Rigamu with his family, ...

      Source: Sii Ond 01W 155

    • Example 867:
      

      Evehee eori sa paku haa me roho bari en, to paku me rohori bene ere sine Morokevoan ei a kamatao.

      But they did not do it (their marriage ceremony) as they did with Morokevaan's mother (and her husband) - that is a kamatao. (Lit.: 'they did not do with them what they did with Morokevaan's mother')

      Source: Kae 01R 093-094

    • Example 868:
      

      Eori repaa sue ki bene ere sinanae ve, aba noasina moon, "Eara kahi hee ri vua- a bua tom tana vai ore vavahio."

      They would say to the mother (and her people), the young girl's relatives, "We will give these two in marriage, let them be married."

      Source: Mah Loa Vaa 01R(Loa) 042

    • Example 869:
      

      Tabae toro paku kiara bene ere Rigamu bo Varosi tea kikira teori te Sookara?

      What are we going to do for Rigamu and Varosi because of their care for Sookara?

      Source: Sia 01E(Joy) 205

Related entries

• See also:
  • bene¹ specific singular article
  • benere object article of the first class fused with the plural article of the first class
  • ere associative plural article