Test Sentences, 24

Continuing with Gary’s list:

45. We went to the village for a visit.

Sodna-lɛni tends to put a purpose (for a visit) into a sentence as a sessile source. Doing that, we get

45. madat lɛnna otni dɛspɛ.

dɛspɛ, a class III noun meaning “village”, is a different word from dɛspɛdan, a class IV noun meaning “settlement”.

In Kēlen:

45. ñi liēþ rā jakēste tō ñi jataxōsa;

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