manaren

manaren

manaren

We’re still on the third sentence in 14th Conlang Relay text:

se jalāña mo jāŋŋeren jēspe sū ñēim manaren mē;

manaren is an indefinite pronoun meaning “everyone” or “everybody”. Combined with the definite pronoun ñēim, the first person inclusive paucal pronoun, it means “all of us” or “everyone including us”, which is a little redundant since the paucal pronoun is already inclusive, and a little contradictory since the paucal pronoun by definition doesn’t include everyone. However, since paucal pronouns are generally used as collective rather than distributive pronouns, this is a way of emphasizing everyone as a collective including us.

Tomorrow we’ll finish the third sentence.