tuwa-

Prefix préfixe

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Français: Passif (causatif)
English: Passive (causative)
العربية: مجهول (سببي)

Source : the site’s first dictionary (Grammar)

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). tuwa- (Passive (causative)). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/514-tuwa (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctartuwa,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{tuwa- (Passive (causative))}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/514-tuwa},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… t accompagnées de la mention BND pour "lié". Exemples de racines liées Racine Causatif Passif Nom/NV Sens en Fr Ŋa ʃ-íkʃa t-ǝkʃa a-ʃ-ákʃ-o manger Kuŋgú s-íywǝn túwa-s-íywǝn t-éewan-t être rassasié Tous les éléments dérivatifs sont préfixés à la racine du verbe. Pour la plupart des racines, un seul préfixe est utilisé, mais certaines racines permettent l'utilisation de plusieurs préfixes. Aucune étude particulière des formes et des combinaisons possibles n'a été réalisée. Le t …

Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), Structure grammaticale d’un parler berbéro-songhay du nord-est malien (tadaksahak) : éléments de linguistique, p. 41
… ................60 3.1.3.3.2 Morphologically marked reciprocals and middles .................................................60 3.1.3.4 Passive t(ə)-, tuw- and tuwa- ............................65 3.1.3.5 Reduplication ...................................................68 3.1.3.6 Directional -kat and -an ....................................71 3.1.4 Verb Inflection.........................................................74 3.1.4.1 Subject clitic ............................... …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 6
… ’ (underived form); n-ǝrkǝb ‘to pull from’ (singly derived form); nǝ-mm-ǝrkǝb ‘to pull between each other’ (double derivation). 3.1.3.4 Passive t(ǝ)-, tuw- and tuwa- There are three prefixes which may form the passive of a verb. (27) Passive prefixes t(ǝ)tuwtuwa- Using a passive prefix always implies a human agent that the speaker does not want to name. At the same time it is ungrammatical to add the agent in the same clause as is possible in English, e.g. ‘he was hit by his …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 83
… eb baʃi. 1s-TAM-pull waterbag ‘I am pulling the waterbag.’ (22) S-(y)erkeb alman bangu be CAUS-pull herd well LOC ‘Pull the herd from the well!’ (23) Alman a-Ø-tuwa-s-(y)erkeb. herd 3s-TAM-PASS-CAUS-pull ‘The herd has been pulled (from the well).’ (24) Iʃaqaɣan i-b-n-(y)erkeb alman. brother.PL 3p-TAM-REF-pull herd ‘Brothers pull (animals of) the herd from each other.’ (25) I-f-tuwa-n-(y)erkeb. 3p-TAM-PASS-REF-pull ‘They are being pulled (animals of the herd).’ (26) Hanʃen i-Ø …

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 8

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