eramasu

Simplex verb

Verb meaning: WANT [want]

Comment: eramasu(y) 'like/want sth; like sb (rarely)' (vt). The choice of form, viz. eramasu or eramasuy, depends on a particular dialect.

Basic coding frame

Schema: 1 2 subj[1].obj[2].V

# Microrole Coding set Argument type
1 wanter subj.V A
2 wanted thing obj.V P
Examples for basic coding frame:
(99)

Ohaw eeramasu ya?
ohaw
soup
e=eramasu
2SG.A=like
ya
Q
Do you like soup?

See Bugaeva and Endo 2010.0

(100)

Sisamutari katkemat eneramasuy pe ka okay.
sisam-utar-i
Japanese-people-POSS
katkemat
married.woman
en=eramasuy
1SG.O=like
pe
NR
ka
also
okay
exist.PL
(Among) the Japanese women, there were those who liked me.

See Sunazawa 1983.0: [79]

(257)

Kutci pirka wa keramasuy korka, eytasa ni ri wa kuhemesu ka niwkes.
kutci
actinidia.arguta.fruit
pirka
be.good
wa
and
k=eramasuy
1SG.A=want
korka
but
eytasa
very
ni
tree
ri
high
wa
and
ku=hemesu
1SG.S=climb
ka
even/also
niwkes
be.unable
The actinidia arguta fruit is good (=well ripen) and I want it but the tree is tall and I cannot climb it.

See Nakagawa 1995.0: [103]

Alternations

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