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They sent all the doors and windows to open.
113. mavna syudɨdi nadɨdi kotɬɨdinɛn otni okottɨdi dɛstɛ.
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And this is really simple. Togetherness is implied with –nɛn. To say otherwise, you would have to add the adverb liya ‘separately’.
112. ŋidi lenɛn tɨŋi dɛga.
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This is actually fairly straightforward.
111. John Elizabethnɛn sɛdɛ kaɬa tiɬanɛn dɛstɛ.
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This paraphrases to Pip and the cat (no dogs!) are inside friends. Now, people sɛdɛ and cats tɛndɛ. Either can be used for a combination. Since friends is also a class I noun, I would use sɛdɛ and elevate the cat to personhood. But then, I am a cat person.
110. Pip idɛlnɛn esɛdɛ syanna dɛstɛ.
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These are: You go carefully. and A cuppa tea goes to you Q. #109 isn’t really a command or even a polite request. It’s a question.
108. ŋidi tɨŋi mɨdeya ki.
109. mahɨdɛn tɨŋi ŋideya dɛmɛ.
And now we are half way to 218!
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These two have exactly the same structure. Go with us, and go with your friends.
106. ŋidi lɛnnanɛn tɨŋi ki.
107. ŋidi syannanɛn tɨŋi ki.
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This needs paraphrased to Don’t say this hidden-thing before tomorrow. And hidden-thing is an example of an adjective without its noun, so therefore a nominalized adjective. And mɛdduso is duso prefixed to allow only one S. Since duso is often used for speech between multiple people, this implies an unspoken someone for you to tell the secret to.
105. ŋidi lamɨdɛn mɛdduso lannal galaba be.
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Right, commands. Commands are marked with an end-of-clause particle ka. There is also be for negative commands, and ki for polite requests. Since this has a period and not an exclamation point, I am going to assume it is a polite request.
“Listen.” translates to “to your ears this comes”.
103. ŋi sada deya ono ki.
104. ŋidi dantɛndɛ leneya ki.
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The river lies which wide?
102. tanan daɬa baŋi oɬon dɛmɛ?
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Here we will use a prefixed form of tɛndɛ, namely etɛndɛ, which with an adjective in the location spot means “A is very ADJ”. So: For you, these shoes sit very big?
101. ŋideya dayi kyati etɛndɛ oni dɛmɛ?
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