Example 48-81

I ta kandá-ndo ele.
I
I
ta
prog
kandá-ndo
sing-prog
ele.
he/she
I am singing (lamenting) her.
Spanish: (Yo) estoy cantándolo/cantándola (estoy lamentando la muerte de él/ella).
Comment:
-ndo is always immediately adjacent to verb. Nothing can intervene between the verb and suffix -ndo. This situation is distinct from that of -ba where the corresponding construction would be kantá-lo-ba (lo being an infix meaning 'it', thus '(was) singing it'.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Recorded by author