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An example of the pattern with 4+3 Simple tense occurred

in a Baptist sermon in La Paz.

. . kun.jam.s sdr.s.tana... '. . . how we are getting along'
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The antepenultimate stress pattern also occurs on examples

given in the Patr6én Aymara catalogues, such as the following

verbs with 273 Imperative:

tsdra.ma "go'

*q' {pi.ma ‘carry on (your) back'

tapd.ni.ma ‘carry’

*irpd.ni.ma ‘take a person'

These Patrén Aymara forms are interpreted by most native

speakers as rude orders, according to Vasquez and Yapita (see 9-4).

9-4 Morphology

As we have already seen, in Aymara some suffixes
are used as softeners and politives: certain noun and
verb derivationals (e.g. diminutives on nouns and the
suffix -t'a- on verbs), independents, and the final suffix
-ya, alone or in combination. From the point of view of

other speakers Missionary and Patr6én Aymara usually fail