| English: do, make, make to do something, cause to be or do, causative
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Bundjalung:
-ma
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| Part of Speech: suffix
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Related Words:
With same English translation:
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Comment: Suffixed to verb stems, can only be added to an intransitive verb, makes a transitive verb, so any transitive stem must have -li before -ma.
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Gold Coast Tweed: Y:Holm ; Y:Holm ; M:Liv ma make, cause, cause to be there
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Lower Richmond: Bj:Holm ma-, imp. ma:, term. mani
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South West: Wa:Crowl; We:Crowl; Cas:Smy -m-a
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Condamine Upper Clarence: Gd:Geyt
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Example:
Bundjalung : galgirma- (from Ca)
English: 'build a canoe, build canoes'
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Example:
Bundjalung : bugalma- (from Ca)
English: 'make good, cure, improve'
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Example:
Bundjalung : jangma- (from Ca)
English: 'make bad, spoil, ruin'
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Example:
Bundjalung : waybarma- (from Ca)
English: 'make camp, build fire'
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Example:
Bundjalung : janbihnyma- (from Ca)
English: 'make go, send'
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Example:
Bundjalung : jabihnyma- (from Ca)
English: 'make eat, feed'
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Example:
Bundjalung : jamgalma- (from Ca)
English: 'make quick hasten'
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Example:
Bundjalung : yunama- (from Ca)
English: 'make lie, put'
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Example:
Bundjalung : jahnama- (from Ca)
English: 'make stand, put'
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Example:
Bundjalung : maruganma- (from Ca)
English: 'make an initiate, initiate'
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Example:
Bundjalung : wayma- (from Ca)
English: 'cause to be up, put up'
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Example:
Bundjalung : yunama- (from Bj:Hol)
English: 'make lie down'
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Example:
Bundjalung : gilama- (from B)
English: 'go there'
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Example:
Bundjalung : wahngma- (from B)
English: 'to work'
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