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80<br />

mubrok 'to be in bad terms (with someone)' (from brok<br />

'bad')<br />

mumasam 'to be in bad terms' (from masam 'sour')<br />

71. Jih ka ii-mumasam ngon Ion lawet nyoe.<br />

Hey IN 3y-in-bad-terms with I time this<br />

'He and I are In bad terms nowadays.'<br />

d). In verbs where the stems are reduplicated<br />

adjectives used adverbially, the meaning of meu- is 'to<br />

compete.'<br />

meutaiam-taiam 'to compete in speed' (from talam<br />

'fast')<br />

meutrep-trep 'to compete in maintaining longer<br />

duration' (from trep 'long time, slow')<br />

meuteuga-teuga 'to compete in strength' (from teuoa<br />

'strong').<br />

72. Jak ta-mubaoah-bagah lheueh.<br />

Let linc-soon-soon finish<br />

'Let's compete to be the first to finish.'<br />

2.2.1.1.3 Verb Stems<br />

When the stems are transitive verbs, the derived verbs<br />

are intransitive, except when the stems are in the<br />

reduplicated forms, as in (d), (e), or (f) below.<br />

Intransitive verbs remain intransitive when used with meu-.

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