Be

There are two verbs “to be”: “be”, e.g. “'unt'oh” “(s)he is” and “be”, e.g. unli “(s)he is”. In many contexts either can be used, but there are some constructions in which only one is appropriate. For example, in “say Mass”, only the second “be” is appropriate.

The first verb “to be” has, in addition to its personal/generic forms, forms normally used only in the third person singular for other shape categories: n-class: “be”, d-class: “be”, and wh-class: “be”.

Neither of these verbs is used to indicate location, for which see this essay.

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