vaakavara2 retire

Part of Speech vi
Morphology vaa-kavara
Gloss CAUS-finished
    • retire
      • grammar
      • Comment The object of transitive verb <vaakavara> 'finish' can be missing and interpreted as an anaphoric zero argument having the subject of the clause as its antecedent. Put differently, the construction of <vaakavara> is reflexive.
      • Example 7958:
        Tea vakavakavara na maa project teebona, menaa paa vaakavara.
        At the completion of all the projects there, I retired.
        Source: Rum 01R 140-141

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