A causative verb affix indicates that a person or thing allows or causes the action of the verb to be accomplished.
Pagag'al Maladyu nan tongal di manu' hinan kāhuna.
Maladyu will let the chicken bones be chewed by her dog.
This affix has a variant form ipa-. With some causative forms, it substitutes for pa- and with others it is a free variant of pa-. For a description of the causative affix including distribution of the variant, see sec. 7.17.