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1a

A third time period, of three or more.

Atlu is obligatorily followed by: 1) a possessive time noun: algaw `day'; duminggu, malkādu `week'; būlan `month'; or tawon `year'.

Atlun di tawon ad ugwan hi nihina' hitun ad Manīla.

(This) is the third year now that I have stayed here in Manila.

2) a possessive pronoun -na followed by a number ligature, hi2 3; a time noun, algaw, duminggu, būlan, tawon, or a substantive phrase with a verb inflected for time as head.

Atlūnah duminggud ugwan hi immuda'udanāna.

(This) is the third week now that it has been raining.

Unspecified, reference is to a third day.

Atlunah puntamūa'.

The third day for me to work.

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1b

For someone (theme mi-) to be third in relationship to others (loc ref); of temporal relations, as third day, week, month, year; of objects in physical, temporal or preferential arrangements, as to be third to sit on a bench with two others, to work with two others.

Niyatlūa' ay da Innāwan ad ugga an immuy ni'malgādu.

I was the third, along with Innāwan and another, in going to market yesterday.

For someone (agent muɴ-; s agent maN-) to add a third object or event (theme i-) to two other objects or events (loc ref -an), as to add a peso to two pesos, the beating of a third accompanying gong, atlun di hebat, to the beating of two other accompanying gongs.

For someone (agent) to use something, an event (inst i-, paN-) for adding as a third object or event, as described above.

1c

For something (patient ma-) to be three successive time periods in length; i.e., days, weeks, months, years. Unspecified, the time period is understood to be days.

Ma'atluy pangana' hinan duway kīlun bogah.

The time for me to eat two kilos of rice is three (days).

Na'atluy tawon hi nunggaūda' hinan payaw'u.

The years that I did spadework on my pond field was three.

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For a mass object such as a liquid, a count object such as a board (actor muɴ- & theme) to divide into three more-or-less equal parts.

Nun'atlu din āyiw an ināyiwmih Pannal.

The tree that we got in Pannal divided into three parts.

For someone (agent; s agent maN-) to divide a mass object such as a liquid, rice, a count object such as a board (theme -on) into three more-or-less equal parts with the hands or a suitable instrument (inst paN-).

Inatlun Innāwan din āyiw ta inodnanmin tulu.

Innāwan divided the tree into three parts so that we three could carry it.

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