avbe [áʋé] spec.
1. it precedes nouns or pronominals in the plural to express specificity:
avbe ikpia nii ― “those particular men”
; Vs. ikpia nii ― “those men”
; avbe iran ― “those ones”
Vs. iran ― “they”
.
2. serves as an optional plural marker with nouns, esp. those that do not mark plural morphologically:
iyan nii ― that yam or those yams
; avbe iyan nii ― those yams
.