meṃsentär

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Meaning:	“to be sorrowful”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	meṃsentär
Person:	third
Number:	plural
Tense/Mood:	present
Root character:	alt-a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-full
Stem:	present
Stem class:	2
Valency:	intransitive
Voice:	middle

Paradigm

	sg.act	pl.act	du.act	sg.mid	pl.mid	du.mid
1
2
3				meṃṣtär	meṃsentär

Lexeme family

• māntsā-
  • mānts- “to be sorrowful” gv
    • mentsi “sorrow, grief, misery” msg

      	sg
      nom	mentsi
      acc	mentsi

      • mentsiñe “solicitude, concernedness”

        	sg
        nom	mentsiñe
        acc	mentsiñe

    • mānts- “to be sorrowful” gv.prs6

      	sg.mid
      3	mantsanatär

      • mantsanamane “being sorrowful” part.prs6

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	mantsanamane	mantsanamane	mantsanamane	mantsanamane
        acc	mantsanamane	mantsanamane	mantsanamane	mantsanamane

    • mānts- “to be sorrowful” gv.prs2

      	sg.mid	pl.mid
      3	meṃṣtär	meṃsentär

    • mānts- “to be sorrowful” gv.subj5

      	pl.mid
      3	māntsantär

      • māṃtsalyñe “sorrow” abstr.subj5

        	sg
        nom	māṃtsalyñe
        acc	māṃtsalyñe

    • mānts- “to be sorrowful” gv.subj1/2

      	sg.mid
      1	meṃṣīmar

    • mānts- “to be sorrowful” gv.pret1

      	sg.mid
      3	mantsāte

    • mānts- “to be sorrowful” gv.impf2

      	pl.act
      3	meṃṣīyen-me