awcel
Keywords: prepositions, modifiers, adjectives, adverbs, relative clauses, dependent clauses
| Pronunciation (IPA): | 'aw.d͡ʒel |
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| Part of Speech: | modifier |
| Class: | preposition |
| Forms: | awcel |
| Glosses: | often, frequent, at a frequency, ever, every |
Description:
The modifier 'awcel' has a base meaning of 'often' and is used to introduce expressions of frequency. It can be used on its own and can be adjusted with a tight binding modifier to make expressions like very often, 'faj awcel'. Awcel is usually used with verbs.
Awcel can take an object which is a noun phrase in the nominative case that describes the frequency of the action. In this usage it has a reading of 'every' and the noun phrase is usually a recurrent event or time expression.
Used with questions, instead of meaning 'often' it can be read as 'ever', especially with the tight binding modifier 'sino', 'a little'.