-rãngue

Planned but Never Happened: -rãngue

Level 6

-rãngue names what was going to be, and with a verb it means “instead of”.

How It Works

A Guarani noun can take -kue “used to be” (-ngue after a nasal vowel) or -rã “will be”. Put them together, -rã first, and you get -rãngue: something that was going to be, but never was.

Che rógarãngue is the house that was going to be mine. The book calls it “my former future house”. The other order does not exist, so che rógakuerã is not a word.

The Academy grammar names this the tense of what was going to be used and was not. Its examples are che aorãngue and paʼirãngue “someone who was going to be a priest”.

With a verb, -rãngue means “instead of”: aharãngue, aju “instead of going, I come”.

Examples (4)

  1. Che rógarãngue.

    The house that was going to be mine.

    Róga “house” plus -rã “will be” plus -ngue “used to be”.

  2. Che aorãngue.

    The clothes that were going to be mine.

    Ao “clothes” plus -rãngue, the same pattern.

  3. Ñande jajapóne hutisiakuéra rembiaporãngue.

    We will do the work that justice was supposed to do.

    Rembiapo “work” plus -rãngue names the work that was meant to be done by someone else.

  4. Aharãngue, aju.

    Instead of going, I come.

    On a verb, -rãngue means “instead of”.

Common Mistakes

  • Putting the two endings in the wrong order.

    Che rógakuerã.
    Che rógarãngue.

    The order is always -rã first and then -ngue. The other order does not exist.

How It Connects

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-rãngueLevel 6Planned but Never Happened: -rãngue

Learn This First

The ending -rãngue puts -rã and -kue together, so both come first.

Words in This Pattern

-rãngue-kue-ngue