7.12 Class B conjugation, the stative verbs

Verbs of class B refer to s.t. that happened to s.o. or s.t. If they

are the predicate of the sentence, the subject is the thing to which

the event happened. Verbs of class B occur with mu- (mi-, etc.),

meaning 3, mag- (nag-, etc.), meaning 3, ma- (na-, etc.), meaning 3,

maka- (naka-, etc.) or, alternatively, makapa- (nakapa-) with a meaning

‘cause s.t. to become [so-and-so]’, and with magka-2 (nagka-,

etc.). The entry for pula ‘red’ illustrates this conjugation. The

entry for duktur ‘doctor’ illustrates a verb of this class formed

from a noun root.

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