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A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

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8.1 Finite verbs and inflectional categories<br />

(5) dale lä<br />

dale lä<br />

now<br />

bar<br />

bar<br />

bievadak<br />

bievadak<br />

mij<br />

mij<br />

sudda<br />

sudda<br />

only sunshine\nom.sg which\nom.sg melt\3sg.prs<br />

be\3sg.prs<br />

muahtagav<br />

muahtaga-v<br />

snow-acc.sg<br />

‘Now it’s only the sun which melts the snow.’<br />

(6) tjävlav<br />

tjävla-v<br />

valdav<br />

valda-v<br />

ja<br />

ja<br />

dä<br />

dä<br />

tjanáv<br />

tjaná-v<br />

virbmev<br />

virbme-v<br />

bobber-acc.sg take-1sg.prs and then tie-1sg.prs net-acc.sg<br />

dan 1<br />

d-a-n<br />

dem-dist-?ill.sg<br />

tjävvlaj<br />

tjävvla-j<br />

bobber-ill.sg<br />

ja<br />

ja<br />

and<br />

hålåv<br />

hålå-v<br />

say-1sg.prs<br />

raddnaj…<br />

raddna-j<br />

friend-ill.sg<br />

[pit100405a.036]<br />

‘I take the bobber and then I tie the net to that bobber and I say to my<br />

friend…’<br />

[pit090702.029]<br />

(7) ja<br />

ja<br />

dä<br />

dä<br />

maŋŋel<br />

maŋŋel<br />

dä<br />

dä<br />

vuolga<br />

vuolga<br />

and then after.that then drive\2sg.prs<br />

‘And then after that you’ll drive to Västerås.’<br />

Västeråsaj<br />

Västeråsa-j<br />

Västerås-ill.sg<br />

[pit080924.677]<br />

8.1.3 Mood<br />

<strong>Pite</strong> <strong>Saami</strong> has three moods: indicative, imperative and potential. Indicative<br />

mood is by far the most common mood and is considered the default, unmarked<br />

mood, as it is not overtly expressed morphologically, as in the examples in §8.1.2<br />

above. The following two sections deal with imperative and potential mood.<br />

8.1.3.1 Imperative mood<br />

Verbs inflectedisinflection!verbal for imperative mood indicate that the speaker<br />

is instructing or commanding the addressee to carry out the action referred to<br />

by the verb; the implied subject is always 2 nd person. Verbs in the imperative are<br />

not marked for person, but do inflect for number (singular, dual and plural), as<br />

1 In the example in (6), it is not clear why the demonstrative dan is used, as this resembles either<br />

the genitive or the inessive demonstratives, but not the expected illative demonstrative dasa.<br />

Perhaps it is simply an error in natural speech.<br />

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