-icha

Like and as: -icha

Level 2

Add -icha for “like” or “as”: Nde sy iporã yvotýicha “Your mother is beautiful like a flower”.

How It Works

-icha compares one thing with another. The thing you compare with comes first, and -icha joins it. The describing word or verb stays as it is.

The ending is unstressed, so the stressed syllable before it is no longer the last one and needs an accent mark: yvotýicha, isýicha.

The same ending is inside péicha and upéicha. For “the way someone does it”, see -haicha.

Nde sy iporã yvotýicha.
Your mother is beautiful like a flower.
Yvotýicha joins -icha to yvoty, and an accent mark appears on ty.
Pe mitã oñeʼẽ voi isýicha.
The child talks just like their mother.
Isýicha means “like his or her mother”, and voi adds “just”.
Amo yvyra yvate che rógaicha.
That tree over there is as tall as my house.
The thing compared is marked with -icha, and yvate “tall” does not change.
Aguata ndéicha.
I walk like you.
A pronoun takes -icha too: nde becomes ndéicha.

Writing -icha as a separate word.
Nde sy iporã yvoty icha.
Nde sy iporã yvotýicha.
The ending joins the word before it, and an accent mark appears on the stressed syllable of that word.

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-ichaLevel 2Like and as: -icha

The ending -icha is the general form of the ending inside péicha.

Patterns that build on this one.

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