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first "ke", the "ke" following "Konde," could be treated as a suffix, as an article, or descriptive article; the second "ke" does not qualify "zhide", red, but is a verb. Lay, is the imperfect tense of the verb to lie. The plums lay red (on the ground) or (on the tree)  If the plums were on the tree, the use of the imperfect tense of the verb to lie to describe the, is an idiomatic use of the verb, to lie. It is an interesting example, and if you had been here and I could have asked you for the form of the verb, I am not sure I recall the verb to lie, & I do not know whether it is regular or irregular in its conjugation. You will see that the "doubleing or iteration of kes" is only apparent and not real. The first "ke" refers to the plums in an adjectival relation, and therefore could be considered as a suffix, just as it is used in the other examples given, it could therefore