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negative adjectival participle (NAJP) can be formed by affixing È»
aada to the infinitive of the verb. There are, obviously, no tense
distinctions in the negative adjectival participle.
- ͤ½é£ ɧÁÔ» »Õç¼Ôë eppavum illaada tiruaalu
`a holiday not (being) like always' (`an unusual day')
- Éý׺¡´Õ ÂÀÔ»Âõ´ innekki varaadavanka
`the people who didn't/don't come today'
As with the positive adjectival participle, the negative participle can
also be affixed with pronouns, as in the example above. The negative stem
ɧ§ ill is used instead of Éç iru. Just as ɧÁÔ×¾
illaame often translates in English as `without (verb)ing' ɧÁÔ»
illaada often translates as `lacking (x), without (x)'.
Harold_F.Schiffman