This unit teaches some type 9 syntactic verb suffixes that indicate when something happened or will happen.

-pa' means before, -DI' means when or as soon as, and -taHvIS means while.

-taHvIS is really a compound of -taH, the continuous-aspect suffix which we have seen before, and -vIS, which conveys the while meaning and which is always used together with -taH.

For example, bISoppa' ghopDu' tISay'moH! Before you eat (bISoppa') wash your hands (ghopDu' tISay'moH)!

This can also be said as ghopDu' tISay'moH bISoppa'! Wash your hands before you eat!