Continuing with Gary’s list:
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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Continuing with Gary’s list:
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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Continuing with Gary’s list:
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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Continuing with Gary’s list:
The river lies which wide?
102. tanan daɬa baŋi oɬon dɛmɛ?
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Continuing with Gary’s list:
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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Continuing with Gary’s list:
This sits (as) the litter’s first kitten?
100. ha tɛndɛ moɬkɛdɛ da iddɨse andana dɛmɛ?
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I suppose, now that I have done 99 sentences, I should do a recap. Rather than go through multiple posts on vocabulary, though, I am going to give you a small present: a pdf of the dictionary, in progress…
You might like some of the stuff at the back, too.
Continuing with Gary’s list:
This is a straightforward use of tɨŋi with a causative/agentive source and a purposive source.
98. leneya ŋidi dɨdɛn salɨdɛn tɨŋi dɛmɛ?
Let’s do another:
And this is a straightforward re-working of #47 in post #25.
99. leneya ŋidi sɛdɛ susi goɬi dɛmɛ?
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Continuing with Gary’s list:
Right. Ready. and On time. OK. Readiness is a state I suppose, so “will you be at readiness” will work. On time, though… On time for what? At a specific time? At the time we have previously decided upon? I suppose this could be a time word equivalent of susi (here, there, this place, that place). Something that meant now, then, this time, that time: yanda. So, “Will you be ready then?”
97. ŋidi otni tomot yanda dɛga dɛmɛ?
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Continuing with Gary’s list:
This is straightforward. We could use tattɨŋi “Have all the leaves rained down from the tree”, but I will stick with the more prosaic:
96. mɛdɛ nadɨdi malɨdi otni tadya dɛmɛ?
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