Test Sentences, 48

Continuing with Gary’s list:

  1. The first boy in the line stopped at the entrance.

The first boy in line is the subject of the sentence, and it is rendered as the line’s first boy galanɨd da koda andana and he goes to the entrance edatta and then he stands there, all stopped or unmoving vodakya.

70. galanɨd da koda andana otni edatta ladi mava sɛttɛ vodakya dɛstɛ.

galanɨd
queue.SSsg
da
PS
koda
boy.MTsg
andana
first.MTsg
otni
tɨŋi.PRF
edatta
entrance.SSsg
ladi
and then
mava
3P.MTsg
sɛttɛ
sɛdɛ.PRF
vodakya
unmovingly
dɛstɛ
I’m told

In Kēlen:

70. ñi mamōīñ sū jañūna jānne mōrre sū anxūri;

ñi
NI
mamōīñ
boy
at
jañūna
line
jānne
beginning
mōrre
stopped
at
anxūri
gates

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