Consider the following data from Samoan:
- mate ‘he dies’ mamate ‘they die’
- nofo ‘he stays’ nonofo ‘they stay’
- galue ‘he works’ galulue ‘they work’
- tanu ‘he buries’ tatanu ‘they bury’
- alofa ‘he loves’ alolofa ‘they love’
- taʔoto ‘he lies’ taʔoʔoto ‘they lie’
- atamaʔi ‘he is intelligent’ atamamaʔi ‘they are intelligent’
What morphological process is occurring?
If ‘he is strong’ in Samoan is malosi, how would you say ‘they are strong’?
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