That-Clauses: -ha / -hague
That-Clauses: -ha
Aikuaa cherayhuha “I know that you love me”, and aikuaa cheandutaha “I know that you will visit me”.
How It Works
The clause that tells “what” has its own verb, with its own person marker, and that verb ends in -ha.
| Time | Ending | Example |
|---|---|---|
| now | -ha | cherayhuha “that you love me” |
| past | -hague | ajuhague “that I came” |
| future | -taha | cheandutaha “that you will visit me” |
The ending -ha takes the stress, so the verb before it carries no accent mark. A negative clause keeps its negative circle inside, before -ha: ndoikomoʼãiha “that there will not be one”.
The ending -ha also turns a verb into a noun, which is why a whole clause can follow a verb such as aikuaa “I know”, like a noun would.
A question inside the sentence does not take -ha. It carries the question marker -pa or -piko instead.
Examples (4)
- Aikuaa cherayhuha.
I know that you love me.
Cherayhuha is the clause “that you love me”, ending in -ha.
- Aikuaa cheandutaha.
I know that you will visit me.
The future is -taha: -ta for the future, then -ha.
- Reikuaa porã maymáva omanovaʼerãha.
You know well that everyone will have to die.
-vaʼerã comes before -ha: “that everyone will have to die”.
- Aikuaa rejuhague.
I know that you came.
The past is -hague.
How It Connects
Learn This First
The ending -ha turns a whole clause into a piece the main verb can use, as -va does for who or which, and -taha adds -ta.
- Who and Which: -va
Know -va, because -ha does a similar job and turns a whole clause into one piece the main verb can use: Aikuaa cherayhuha “I know that you love me”.
Level 3 - -taFuture with -ta
Know -ta, because the future form of this clause puts -ta before -ha: Aikuaa cheandutaha “I know that you will visit me”.
Level 1
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