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Grammatical Concept: The Part and the Whole
Asaxi expresses the Extent of a noun (how much of it is involved) by attaching a Number Prefix directly to the noun. This treats the object as a unit to be divided or completed.
1. Completeness (“All / Whole”)
To indicate the entirety of an object or time unit, use the prefix să- (One) or the emphasized săsă- (One-One / 100%).
- Prefix: să- / săsă-
- Logic: “The singular whole of X.”
- Examples:
- săhwo (“All yesterday” / “The whole day of yesterday”).
- săsăshěso (“The entire book”).
- Example sentence: Săhwo to John shěso zèshěsonů. _All day yesterday, John was reading a book. _
2. Partiality (“Half / Part”)
To indicate a fraction of an object, use the fractional prefixes established in Note 39.
- Prefix: pù- (Below/Fraction) + [Number].
- Examples:
- pùtam-hwo (“Half of yesterday”).
- pùfă-apo (“A third of the apple”).
Syntax
These compounds function as Nouns.
To [săsă-wao] gavină xiŕa. “The entire world is good.”