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Postpositions occurring with the accusative

. Note that in LT, when case-marked nouns ending in a vowel, such as the accusative, are followed by words (usually verbs or postpositions) that begin with hard consonants, those consonants are doubled. Thus ÇÂÙƤ ½Ô¯¢Ø»¨ `I saw him', ÇÂÙƤ ½Ô¯¢â ¶ÕÀբػ¨ `I laughed at him', etc. This doubling rule is followed by some writers when writing ST, but we will not use it in this grammar, since the LT rule is essentially a spelling rule, and no such rules exist for ST.





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