| English: no, not
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Bundjalung:
yugam, yagam, jugam, yugam(beh)
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| Part of Speech: adverb
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Related Words:
With same English translation:
yagam, yagambeh
yugam, yugambe
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Comment: yugam-djam emphatic negative probably (M:Liv); cf. wunah (imperative) 'don't' (Y:Sha:Culhm); also cf. yugum. Older form was probably yugumbir or yugambir; cf. yugumbi. GC:Mestn has yagumba.
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Gold Coast Tweed: Y:Sha:Culhm yugambeh (occasionally yugumbeh); Y:Holm:Logn , Curry , Fogty yugam no , none , not , yugambe nothing , no , none , never (Paulsn , Wzl , Logn , Curry) , yugum no , not (Fogty , Monsl); Y:Allen yugumm no; Y:Watsn y
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Condamine Upper Clarence: Gn:Mathew yukumbi I don't know
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Example:
Bundjalung : Yagam ganngahba. (from AT:Curr:Prio)
English: '(I) don't know.'
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Example:
Bundjalung : Yugam ngay yangngahny bambambu. (from M:Li)
English: 'I cannot go with swollen feet.'
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