Ana otsi tsohraka = I got some rice to eat.
(15) kok = ability.
Ana oso tsokoka = I can eat meat.
(16) che or cheyu also = ability.
Ana otsi ntsoche = I cannot eat rice.
Imperative Mood. The following examples show the shades of meaning of the terminations in use.
| tsoa | = | eat. |
| tsosa | = | eat more. |
| tsoalo | = | go on eating. |
Participial Clauses. The sense of English participles and participial clauses is given by postpositions and adverbs added to the verbal stem or the verbal stem plus a. Examples are as follow:—
(1) -na “from,” “by,” the instrumental postposition.
| Ana otsi tsona… = |  | I, if I eat rice. |
| I, by eating rice. |