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| Bundjalung | English | Category | Dialect | ||
| -l | one able to perform an action | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| -le- | All | [more] | |||
| -leh | imperative (repetitive, reflexive or continuous) | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence, Copmanhurs | [more] | ||
| -lehla | progressive | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence, Copmanhurs | [more] | ||
| -lehn | imperfective aspect with antipassive | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence, Copmanhurs | [more] | ||
| -lehny | antipassive + imminent aspect ; reflexive + imminent aspect | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence, Copmanhurs | [more] | ||
| -li(h) | nominaliser | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| -li, -le | reflexive ; antipassive | Gold Coast Tweed, Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
| -li, -le | continuous, repetitive | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| -lu | ergative suffix on demonstratives | All | [more] | ||
| -lur(u), -lu | past ; finished action | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| lagumbi- | lock up | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| All | [more] | ||||
| -(y)agan | after (running after?) | location | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| -ah | in ; at ; on | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| -an.ga-, -angga- | be ; become | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| -ay | subjunctive? | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| -ba | go | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
| -ba | intensity of action, greater | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| -ba | make, to ; cause to | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
| -ba | place of | location | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| -ba | please | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| -ba | to ; towards | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| -bal | those who say | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
| -banggil | very ; most ; superlative | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| -bany | father | people | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| -banyi | from ; of (as in 'afraid of') | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| -bara | from ; person from | location | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| -bara | derivational affix | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| -bari | person from a named place ; born at, inhabitant of; added to place names | people | Gold Coast Tweed, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| -barnu | from | location | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| -baya | with ; together with | Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
| -beh | then | Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
| -bi | subjunctive enclitic ; verbal noun enclitic | artifact | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| -bi | in ; at ; on | location | All | [more] | |
| -bihny | your own | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| -bihny | place where something is or happens | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| -bil | intensive descriptive | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| -bil, -ngbil | plural for all trees ; tree plural | plant | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| -bilahm | learnt to, has | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] |
