Talk:Annotating Tumbuka
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This page has developed nicely --Dorothee 13:51, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
I am interested in the annotation of the last three words: nchunga kwa Mary translated as beans for Mary.
- is there no plural noun class prefix on nchunga?
- kwa looks like a complex word composed of kw-a, with kw as the noun class agreement marker and a as a possessive marker. ??
Could you help Jean :)
--Dorothee 10:37, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
Nchunga is both singular as CL9 and plural as CL10. There are no affixes marking plurality. May be I could just add that CL10 on the glosses under nchunga 'beans'?
Kwa is simply a preposition and its not agreeing with any of the nouns. If it was used as an agreement marker, it would have been ku-a = kwa under class 16 which is a locative class.