| English: no, not, none
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Bundjalung:
yagam, yagambeh
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| Part of Speech: interjection, adverb
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Related Words:
With same English translation:
yagam, yagambeh
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Comment: General sentence negator, frequently has emphatic suffix (yagambeh); yagambehwen- (irregular) to disappear Wa; also an introducer; can take -beh suffix (mild intensifier), or -bu 'yet'; yagam baray 'not very' Gd; possibly yugam in Wa:Tabulm:Hargrv.
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South West: Wa:Crowl; Wa:Tabulm:Hargrv yo-cum
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Condamine Upper Clarence: Gd:Geyt ;
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Example:
Bundjalung : Yagambeh ngadju ganngahla gumbaynggirnah nguyay (from W)
English: 'I don't understand Gumbaynggir'
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Example:
Bundjalung : yagambu (from G)
English: 'not yet'
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