In this example, the event of eating monkey occurred twice, and, consequently, implies that there were two monkeys. In Nheengatu, however, the occurrences of an event must be marked by (numeral/mui) viagi, which is a combination of either a numeral or the continuous quantifier mui, and the noun viagi (which is a loanword from Portuguese for ‘trip’, that has come to denote a more abstract sense of time. This change now indicates the number of occurrences of an event.) This is illustrated in Example (9) below: