-jhege

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Wutunhua

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Etymology

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From Mandarin 幾個几个 (jǐgè).

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-jhege

  1. The paucal suffix; attached to nouns to indicate that there are a few of them.
    jashe-de zhawa-jhege zang-li wanlan-di-li.
    [A couple of] Jashe's workers are working in Tibet.
    (Quoted in Sandman, p. 48)
  2. Attached after a series of several nouns to emphasize that the group that the nouns make up is not large in number.
    jashe da gu-de adia da asak-jhege bijin qhi-gu-ma-li.
    Jashe and the monk and the sister-in-law [of his family] went to Beijing.
    (Quoted in Sandman, p. 48)
  3. Attached after a noun to indicate that the statement applies generally for members of the group, whereas the plural suffix -dera implies that the statement applies to certain particular members.
    ha-jhege kuize-liangge huan xhe-di-li.
    Chinese people [in general] eat with chopsticks.
    (Quoted in Sandman, p. 49)

See also

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References

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  • Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun[1], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN