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-ma

suffix

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Meaning
  1. Final particle which turns the sentence into a polar question.
  2. question particle
  3. A suffix added to the end of a sentence to turn it into a yes-or-no question.
Examples

Naʔa chaʔani chaka-ma?

Are you hungry?

Part of speechsuffix

Usage noteAttached to the end of the sentence to mark a question.

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-ma in other languages

Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) — Wave 5 (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.