Re: Weekly Vocab #1.1.3 (repost #1)

Carsten Becker wrote:
> 2.  Adanyareng(-tay) rentamley ayena nay edanyareng(-tay)
>     evaena.
>     That-one.A(.EMPH) (be) medicine.P 1s.GEN and
>     this-one.A(.EMPH) (is) 2s.GEN
>
> If I should introduce _-tay_ or _tay X_ to work like
> Indonesian(/Malay?) _-lah_*? It'd be very practical
> for sentences such as 2 in fact where there is no verb and
> no trigger. Does Indo./Mly.(/Kash?) use "to be" there?
Basically, no for all. You _could_, but it would be very formal/bookish I
suspect.

> *) I bet Kash has a similar device.
>
Haha. Not really, since I've never fully understood all the uses of -lah
:-((  Yes, it can be for emphasis, and in that case Kash would use a more
forceful intonation (higher pitch).

This would be the most common (I think) Indo. version:
itulah, obat saya, inilah obat kamu = that-lah medicine I, this-lah med. you

OR
obat itulah, obat saya ...etc. there's no easy way to form poss. adjectives
in Indonesian.

OR with "to be"
itu(lah?) adalah obat saya....

Kash:
_iyu_ (yale) andombrami, _tayu_(yale) andombrati
that  (it is) med.-my,   this (it is) med.-your

One could insert the hesitation particle _na_ after iyu/tayu, and that would
have much the same effect as -lah.

OR:
andombra _iyu_, (yale) mami, andombra tayu, (yale) hati
med. that  (it is)  1sing/GEN.  .....   (it is_  2sing/GEN

The genitive case of the full pronoun form serves as a poss. adj. and would
be quite emphatic.

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