érḳaḥ sᵉkɛ ‘to curse somebody’:
toˀóge ˁážeʰ íľseʰ embóryeʰ wa-teráḳaḥ tóʸhen sᵉkɛ ‘The wife was beating the children and treating them as if they were not hers’ (CSOL II 15:15); árḳaḥ tho sᵉkɛ tóˀo níšik tok ‘You are free to despise me since I forgot you!’ (CSOL II 25:11)
sᵉkɛ keʰ + perfect ‘it hardly happened, it nearly failed to happen’:
wa-sᵉkɛ keʰ šḥᵃboḷk boḳ menáḷ šédfaˁk bes ˁaf aˀáraḥ káˁar ‘And I have hardly noticed it there where I stumbled, before I reached the house’ (Naumkin et al. 2022:254)
sᵉkɛ kaḷ tóˀo ‘as soon as’:
sᵉkɛ kaḷ tóˀo gédaḥk ebhɛyréroʰ nhɔfs ‘As soon as I arrived, she yielded herself’ (CSOL I 1:21)
sᵉkɛ ḷe- + direct object ‘it is forbidden for somebody’:
ˁö́mor ṣáľeḥ sᵉkɛ ḥe tos wa-beˁáḷes mḥámmad ‘Saleh said: “She is forbidden to me.” So Muhammad married her’ (CSOL I 22:46)
sᵉkɛ ḷe- + keʰ + perfect ‘it is impossible that he (ḷe-) does something’:
zᵉkɛ ˁek keʰ teṭhór wa-ľázim neṣáḷeb hek ‘You cannot go (= ‘Far be it from you that you go’), we have to slaughter (an animal) for you (and make a feast)’ (Naumkin et al. 2013b:539)
sᵉkɛ ḷe- + kaḷ + perfect ‘it is impossible that he (ḷe-) does not do something’:
zᵉkɛ ḥe kaḷ ṭáhɛrk náˁaʰ ‘Surely I will go now (= ‘Far be it from me that I don't go now’)’ (Naumkin et al. 2013b:539)
ˁaf (di-)sᵉkɛ ṭad ‘up to the last one’ (see also ˁaf):
ṣódḳaʰ ľa náḳareʰ wa-ľa bíľeʰ kaḷ ṭánˀeʰ ˁaf tekénen sᵉkɛ ṭeʸh ‘And there was no reason for it—neither cavities, nor anything else, nothing but this, but in the end none (of the teeth) were left at alľ (CSOL I 18:40); ḳénomk méʸhen serédhon wa-tóˀo šérḳeḥ di-ḥay ṣéme ˁaf sᵉkɛ ṭad ‘I fed my goat kids (artificially), but when they went out to the green fodder, they died, all of them’ (Naumkin et al. 2014c:539)
Sometimes pronounced as zᵉkɛ:
ḥéṭam ľhɛg ˁaf zᵉkɛ ‘It broke the other (glasses), all of them’ (Bulakh 2024:118-119; see also Naumkin et al. 2013b:538-539)