mboyve
Before: Mboyve
Jakaru mboyve “before we eat”.
How It Works
Mboyve names the point in time that an event comes before.
| After | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jakaru mboyve | before we eat |
| koʼẽ mboyve | before dawn |
The verb before mboyve is the one that happens later. In jakaru mboyve jajepohéi, eating comes second and washing your hands comes first.
Mboyve is the mirror of rire “after”. It takes the stress and stands apart from the word before it, just like rire. It has no person marker of its own: the verb before it carries the person, as ja- does in jakaru.
The Academy lists mboyve and rire among the words of time, next to upéi “then” and koʼẽrõ “tomorrow”.
Examples (3)
- Pohãnohára heʼi jakaru mboyve jajepohéiporãvaʼerãha.
Doctors say that we must wash our hands well before we eat.
Jakaru mboyve means “before we eat”.
- Jakaru mboyve, jajepohéi.
Before we eat, we wash our hands.
The eating comes second, so mboyve follows jakaru.
- Reho koʼẽ mboyve.
You go before dawn.
Mboyve can follow a time word as well as a verb.
How It Connects
Learn This First
Mboyve stands after the plain verb of the later event, so the plain verb comes first.
Related Patterns
- rireAfter: Rire
Rire after a verb means “after”.
Level 3 - jave / aja / voveWhile and When: Jave, Aja and Vove
These words after a verb mean “while” or “when”.
Level 3 - guive / peveSince and Until: Guive and Peve
Guive “since” and peve “until” also mark points in time.
Level 2 - -rõ / -ramoIf and When: -rõ
The endings -rõ and -ramo make “if” and “when”.
Level 3
Words in This Pattern
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