Who Did and Who Will: -vaʼekue / -vaʼerã

Who Did and Who Will: -vaʼekue and -vaʼerã

Level 3

Peteĩ kuña rehechavaʼekue “a woman you saw”, rejapovaʼerã “what you will do”.

How It Works

These endings are -va with a past or a future ending added.

Ending	Time	Example
-vaʼekue	past	omeʼẽvaʼekue “that he or she gave”
-vaʼerã	future	rejapovaʼerã “that you will do”
-vaekue, -vaerã	spoken forms	the glottal stop is left out in speech

The person markers tell who is the doer. Peteĩ kuña nderechavaʼekue is “a woman who saw you”. Peteĩ kuña rehechavaʼekue is “a woman you saw”.

Shorter forms, -akue and -arã, also exist.

The same endings also mean “must” (-vaʼerã) and “long ago” (-vaʼekue) in other kinds of sentences.

Aheka peteĩ aranduka omeʼẽvaʼekue che ru.
I am looking for a book that my father gave me.
Omeʼẽvaʼekue is “that he gave”, with the past ending -vaʼekue.
Aheka peteĩ kuña omeʼẽvaʼekue ko aranduka.
I am looking for a woman who gave me this book.
The same ending, but now the woman is the doer.
Ehupi pe nde ao remombovaʼekue yvýpe!
Pick up your clothes that you threw on the floor!
Remombovaʼekue describes the clothes: “that you threw”.
Emombeʼumína chéve rejapovaʼerã koʼẽrõ.
Please tell me what you will do tomorrow.
Rejapovaʼerã has the future ending -vaʼerã: “what you will do”.
Aheka peteĩ aranduka ajoguavaʼerã.
I am looking for a book that I will buy.
Ajoguavaʼerã means “that I will buy”.

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Who Did and Who Will: -vaʼekue / -vaʼerãLevel 3Who Did and Who Will: -vaʼekue and -vaʼerã

The endings -vaʼekue and -vaʼerã grow out of -va, so -va comes first.

-vavaʼekuevaʼerã

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