The rule is that in the pausa a word must never end on a short vowel, but it may do so in the context.
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Pausa
Synonyms for "pausa"
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Translations
4 translations across 3 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- وَقْف noun (The hiatus between prosodic units)
Indonesian
2 entries- jeda noun (The hiatus between prosodic units)
- wakaf noun (The hiatus between prosodic units)
Polish
1 entries- pauza noun (The hiatus between prosodic units)
Sample sentences
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Besides, the pausa endposition may have served to highlight the informational value of the substituendum.
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In pausa you say 'ih, in the jussive la- ta'ih, analogous to 'ih, la- ta'ih. And since t' is complete as two letters, the tongue utters both of them in the pausa.
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For instance, the perfect in -miš (> -mi before pausa) always has the high unrounded vowel, the abstract noun suffix appears in a single variant +luġ, the infinitive is -maġ and the instrumental +ine.
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