Sama, Central

thing; stuff; object; item; place.

Ngassah-ngassah na, anu bey tunuh ma tangan-na.

[It is] blistering now, the place [that] was burned on her hand.

Her hand has blistered where it was burned.

Anu siyan anu tutu?

Whose stuff is this?

Siga anu tutu ya tahinang-sigeya.

These are the things that they are able to do.

Itu kaginisan siga anu ma iskul.

These are the different kinds of things at school.

1.

a place holder for any proper noun; "so and so"; "what's his name".

Si Anu -- luun na./ Luun na Si Anu.

What's-his-name -- is present now.

2.

place holder for any noun; something; "whatchamacallit".

In English whatchamacallit is slang for "whatever you may call it".

3.

possessive absolute.

When any of the clitic set 2 nonfocused pronouns follow anu , anu transforms them into absolute possessives, namely, "mine", "hers", "his", "ours", "theirs", "yours".

Kitab naan anu ku.

That religious book is mine.

pause marker; "uh".

ha

1.

the thing to do.

Bohoh, anuhun na nibeleng na.

Then, the thing to do now is to turn [it] over now.

2.

place holder for any verb.

Anu may be fully inflected.