Bundjalung Dictionary

English: no, not, none
Bundjalung: yagam, yagambeh
Part of Speech: interjection, adverb
Related Words:
With same English translation:  
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.
South West: Wa:Crowl; Wa:Tabulm:Hargrv yo-cum
Condamine Upper Clarence: Gd:Geyt ;
Example:

Bundjalung : Yagambeh ngadju ganngahla gumbaynggirnah nguyay (from W)

English: 'I don't understand Gumbaynggir'

Example:

Bundjalung : yagambu (from G)

English: 'not yet'

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