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retains its stress on the /a/ in námi

Secondary stress is placed on the second syllable of a two-syllable word; the third syllable of a word with three, four, or five syllables; and the fourth syllable of a word with six syllables.

* Primary stress: Primary stress is "marked when it is non-initial stress". In addition, "when a pronoun is suffixed by, for instance a postposition, the pronoun does take primary - and initial - stress". An example is nu-pia 'my mother'

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