1400: Other Voices: Mongolian Oct 11, 2018

Yesterday, it was discussed how there are other voices outside of just the active and passive for verbs. To understand these better, you can watch this video. However, Classical Mongolian has some extras in addition to one's discussed before. The reciprocal voice shows a relationship between two nouns that are both the agent and the patient (not quite the object) such as would be indicated by 'each other's' in "Adam and Billy cook each other's dinners". The other of these two is the cooperative voice which shows cooperation between two nouns, but this is very similar to the reciprocal voice or even just a plural verb in everything except the fact that there is a distinct suffix.