Ad. plural verbs grammar.
The suffix -m appears consistently at the end of verbs that have a plural subject, marking the plurality of the verb to agree with that subject. The suffix appears whether or not the verb has a pronominal-prefix, and appears in both the draft and later stages of Adûnaic.
There is only one example where the plural-verb suffix does not appear: the pseudo-aorist verb form phursâ of phurus- “to gush, flow”. This (along with its gloss “to-gush”) lends weight to the idea that it may be a special form, perhaps an infinitive.
Examples (plural) | |||||||||
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yanākhim | “are at hand” | [← #nakh-] | biconsonantal-verb | 3rd-pl-neut continuative-present | ✧ SD/251 | ||||
yurahtam | “broke” | [← rahat-] | triconsonantal-verb | 3rd-pl-masc aorist | ✧ SD/247 | ||||
yurahtam | “they rent” | [← rahat-] | triconsonantal-verb | 3rd-pl-masc aorist | ✧ VT24/12 | ||||
yakalubim | “lean over” | [← kalab-] | triconsonantal-verb | 3rd-pl-neut continuative-present | ✧ SD/251 | ||||
dubdam | “fell” | [← dubud-] | triconsonantal-verb | aorist | ✧ SD/247 | ||||
phurusam | “flow” | [← phurus-] | triconsonantal-verb | aorist draft | ✧ SD/311 | ||||
udūbanim | “fell” | [← dubud-] | triconsonantal-verb | draft-perfect draft | ✧ SD/311 | ||||
dubbudam | [← dubud-] | triconsonantal-verb | past | ✧ SD/312 | |||||
phurrusim | “flow” | [← phurus-] | triconsonantal-verb | past draft | ✧ SD/311 |
Examples (no-agreement) | |||||||||
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phursā | “to-gush” | [← phurus-] | triconsonantal-verb | aorist | ⇒ azrīya du-phursā akhāsada | ✧ SD/247 |
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