ma-
ma-pos or maapos
Quickly feels that a situation or effort is futile. [??check: this sounds like `discourage'?? what's the difference between afos and dismaya??]
No tetbalen mos awak, dodop moy esel tep ma-pos.
When you talk with my father, you speak kindly to him because he quickly feels his effort is futile.
Enog i kiyeljaw si Mario tep ma-pos.
Don’t yell at Mario because he quickly feels that his effort is useless.
Ma-pos si Maria no konen mo i pidgwaen toy obda.
Maria quickly feels that her effort is futile if you tell her to do the work again.
on- (TH)
on-afos/ man-aafos/ imafos,
-an (NAG)
a-posan/ afosi/ iposan,
me--an
ma-posan/ emangka-posi/ iya-posan
To give up; lose hope; stop trying; feel that one’s efforts are futile, as when someone fails to help.
Imafos des ahik tep ekak ini-kanan na pilak.
My brother gave up [asking] because I wouldn’t give him any money.
Imafosak chiwan a too tep eg toak tiyodo-todongan.
I gave up on that person because he never helped me.
Iposan ko man a too tep eg toak todongan.
I gave up on that person because he does not help me.
Naimafosak cha si-kam tep singen eg mo ikaskasoy nainado-adok kod si-kam.
I’ve given up on you because it’s as though you don’t care that I keep on pleading with you.
i--an (TH)
iafosan/ iafosi/ in-afosan,
may--an
may-afosan/ emangkaiafosi/ iyay-afosan
To sympathize or side with someone whose efforts have been futile.
In-afosan Pedroy anak to tep chakel i in-i-kan chen obda tho.
Pedro sympathized with his son’s feeling that his effort was futile because they had given him lots of work.
*aafos ok-imafos
She gave up.
Kaafos.
She feels her effort is futile.
On-afos.
She will feel that her effort is futile.
Imafos.
She felt that her effort was futile.