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The Habitual Negative is the only productive
negative form in Tamil that is not formed by affixing some negative morpheme
to the INFINITIVE. Rather, it is a SENTENTIAL negative, formed by
adding lle to the present verbal noun.
Note that this form only means Habitual Negative when there is a time
adverb like ×½ÔâÂÔ poduvaa `generally' or ¶Ô»ÔÀº¾Ô
saadaaranamaa `usually' in the sentence. Without these adverbs, the
sentence is interpreted to mean IMMEDIATE FUTURE NEGATIVE.
Harold_F.Schiffman