Sylheti language/Expressing Obligation with Verb

Expressing obligation requires a few transformations.

First step :

The person who is obliged to do things is represented in possessive form like in the following :

Subject pronoun	Possessive form
ami/mui	amar/mur
tumi	tumar
afne	afnar
tui	tor
he	tar
tain	tainor
amra	amrar
tumra	tumrar
afnara	afnarar
tara	tarar

Step 2 : Take the infinitive form of the verb denoting the activity that one is obligated to do. Add the word zoruri right after it, like in the following table :

Infinitive	Obligation expression
khoa	khoa zoruri
khora	khora zoruri
khaua	khaua zoruri

Note that this obligation expression is person and number independent. It doesn't change according to who is doing something or how many people are doing something.

The last step :

Now combine the possessive and the obligation expression to make a full obligation statement, like in the following

amar khora zoruri.

tumar khoa zoruri.

tar khaua zoruri

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