> You still tend to use -pu' as a tense-

> marker instead of a perfective-marker. -

> pu' doesn't mean happened before — 

> that's tense. It means expressed as a 

> completed whole or comes to an end in 

> the moment being described.

I thought that since at the moment when 'a'Serbut says the {'e' neHbe' vavoy} her father is dead, his desire is a completed event, thus the (rule-breaking) perfective on the {neH} of the sao.

~ Dana'an

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