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What does the adjectival participle (AJP) mean?
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Tamil lacks the relative pronoun used in English to form relative clauses such as 'the boy who came.' Rather, such relative clauses are formed in Tamil through the AJP.
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How is the adjectival participle (AJP) formed in the past and the present tense?
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VERB-tense-அ
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How is the adjectival participle (AJP) formed in the future tense?
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In the future, the AJP is formed by adding உம் to the infinitive.
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How is the negative adjectival participle (AJP) formed?
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The negative form of the AJP is formed by adding அத to the infinitive of the verb. There is no tense distinction for the negative AJP.
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What would AJP-போது (sp. -போ) mean?
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'when'
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What would AJP-சமயம் mean?
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'at the time of'
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What would AJP-பிறகு mean?
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'After'
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What would AJP-முன்னாலெ mean?
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'before'
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What would AJP-வரைக்கும் mean?
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'up to, until'
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What would AJP-உடனே (sp., -ஒடனே) mean?
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'immediately after'
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What would it mean if a third person pronoun were added to the AJP?
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In addition to temporal forms, third person pronouns can be added to the AJP to form noun phrases. These nouns are traditionally known as 'participial nouns'. However, rather than adding a glide, or doubling the length of the final அ (cf. verb-tense-அ + அவர்கள்), one of the அs is dropped. e.g.
போனவர் 'The man who went.' |
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How is the verbal noun formed?
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The verbal noun is formed by adding அது to the AJP. In addition, the neuter ending அது can also be added to the AJP to form a relative clause, e.g.
அவரை கடித்தது செத்து போனது. 'The thing which bit him died.' |
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What is the verbal noun?
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Rather than being a relative clause around a neuter noun, however, here the verbal noun is simply a nominalized sentence which retains its arguments (neuter or otherwise). It is often translated as 'the act of VERB', or as 'VERB-ing., in the sense of English gerund. e.g. நீங்கள் அந்த புது வீடு வாங்கினது நல்லது. 'That you bought that new house is a good thing.'
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