-ína With Person Prefixes

Hína with Person Prefixes: -ína

Level 6

-ína changes with the person: aína, reína, hína, ñaína, roína, peína.

How It Works

Today most people say the fixed word hína for every person: Oho hína, Aha hína. A more careful style gives -ína the same active person prefix as the verb.

PersonForm
Iaína
youreína
he or she, theyhína
we (you and I)ñaína
we (without you)roína
you allpeína

The two prefixes must be for the same person: rehai reína “you are writing”, peguata peína “you all are walking”.

The word is written both ways. The book prints it apart (rehai reína) and, in one example, joined (reñembotavyreína). The Academy grammar prints it joined, with a puso after a-: apytuʼuʼaína.

Examples (4)

  1. Rehai reína.

    You are writing.

    Re- is on both words: rehai and reína.

  2. Peguata peína.

    You all are walking.

    Pe- is on both words, for “you all”.

  3. Mamópa rekayʼu reína?

    Where are you drinking mate?

    Reína agrees with rekayʼu “you drink mate”.

  4. Anína reñembotavy reína.

    Please do not be playing dumb.

    Reína sits at the end of the clause and agrees with reñembotavy “you play dumb”.

Common Mistakes

  • Using a prefix on -ína that does not match the verb.

    Rehai aína.
    Rehai reína.

    The prefix on -ína must be for the same person as the prefix on the verb. Re- is for “you”, and a- is for “I”.

How It Connects

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Learn This First

The ending -ína is the careful-speech form of hína.

Words in This Pattern

hína