DEFECTIVE VERBS
The following belong to such class: may (to have) which has only, one form.
| á | (no, I do not wish) |
| iyá | (receive it) |
| ohò | (look at it) |
May is also used as impersonal and then it means “there, is, there was, etc.”; conó (he or she says or said; they say or said;—it is said, it was said) [[89]]
| ambót | (I do not know) |
The English “to have” is also expressed in Bisayan by the root may-adà, whose irregular conjugation as follows:
Infinitive
Present, and gerund: pagcaada or pagcamay-adà (to have)
| PRESENT | |||
| SINGULAR | PLURAL | ||
| acó, etc. may ada or nagcacaada. | (I etc. have) | camí, etc. may adá or nangagcacaada | (we, etc. have) |
| PAST | |||
| acó, etc. nagcaada | (I, etc. had) | camí, etc. nangagcaada | (we, etc. had) |
| FUTURE | |||
| acó etc. magcacadá | (I shall, etc. have) | camí, etc. mangacacaada | (we shall, etc. have) |
Imperative