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===In verb forms=== * na-rá-zi-báriira (I-<small>PAST</small>-them.<small>CL</small>10-to sew) 'I was sewing them' (''them'' refers to a [[noun class|class]] 10 plural) * na-rá-bariira (I-<small>PAST</small>-to sew) 'I was sewing' In the first sentence, both the tense marker ''rá'' and the verb form ''báriira'' (to sew) carry a high tone, signified by the [[acute accent]]. They are separated by the pronominal marker ''zi''. In the second sentence, the pronominal marker ''zi'' is left out, resulting in two adjacent high tones. The phenomenon described by Meeussen's rule causes the second high tone to change into a low tone.
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