Common Lexeme

fereh

Keywords: modifiers, adverbs, prepositions, chaining, mood, modal

Pronunciation (IPA): 'fe.reç 
Part of Speech: term verb noun 
Class: happat 
Forms: fereh, ferehys, ikféreh, ikférehys 
Glosses: permit, allow, may, permission, be possible, permissible, forbid, forbidden 

Description:

The term 'fereh' refers to allowance or permission and glosses as 'may' in the sanse of being allowed. It also has a secondary sense of beig possible, because of possibility following from permission.

Nouns:

As a noun, 'fereh' means permission, or possibly a permit.

Verb:

As a verb, fereh is a ditransitive happat verb of giving. It take an ergative subject which is granting permission, an absolutive object which is the act that is permitted (often a dependent clause introduced with 'si'), and a dative indirect object that is the person or entity which is permitted to perform the act.

As well, fereh can be used as a chained modal verb indicating that the subject of the verb is permitted to perform the action. In such usage, the valence pattern of the verb is that of the main verb.

Modifier:

The modifier form 'ferehys' means 'permissible'.

Negative Forms:

The negative forms ikféreh and ikférehys mean 'forbid' and 'forbidden'. Otherwise, they work like the positive forms.

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