Re: Weakly Vocab

E fésto takatunu <takatunu@...>:
> This weak I made 4 different batches as variations on one theme. I guess
> I made a few English mistakes but I hope they are not to confusing.
>
> Easy ones:
>
> Please write to your friend in this room and with this pen an essay about
> your conlang in your script but in English.
This is easy? o_O

      "Gedve fistro vente šâs iâmmuth, ravre tâmme ne, ke
      plâmme tâmme metha, firé adâ âstinânne šâs afo, fistré hâs metha,
      velroth eŋglek metha."


gEd      -vE  fis      -4O  vEntE  S@s  j@mmuT 4o4E t@mmE nE kE
want-PROG.1SG write-AOR.2SG friend your for    room this  in and

pl@mmE t@mmE mETA fire  Ad@ @stin@nnE S@s  AfO   fist4e @s  mETA
pen    this  with essay ACC conlang   your about script its with

vEld4OT ENglEk  mETA
but     English with

[new words: <plâmme> "pen", <âstinânne> "conlang", <vente> "friend",
<firé> "attempt, essay".]

> I baked the dough and the cake was soon baked.
      "E fetiva sort adâ, še most fetito zvavsort."

E    "fEti-vA     sO4t  Ad@, SE  mOst "fEti-tO     "zvosO4t
PAST bake-AOR.1SG dough ACC, and soon bake-AOR.3SG cake.

[new word:  <most> "soon, quickly".]

> This bottle was filled with wine and that other one was full of water.
      "E fovke vine foole tâmmé adâ, še fovke ândé abe adâ."
      (Wine filled this bottle, and water filled the other.)

E    "fo:    -kE  "vinE "fO:lE "t@mme Ad@  SE  "fo:    -kE  "@nde "AvE  Ad@
PAST fill-DUR.3SG wine  bottle DEM-SG ACC, and fill-DUR.3SG water other
ACC.

[new words: <vine> "wine", <ândé> "water".]

> Now both are empty so please refill them.
      "Seŋo une âmbo, teg gedve anpler tovs adâ."
      (Now both [are] empty, so I want you to refill them.)

"sENO "unE  "@mbO tEg "gEd     -vE  "An-  plE     -4   to:s   Ad@
now   empty both  so  want-PROG.1SG again.fill-AOR.2SG DEM-PL ACC

[new words: <âmbo> "both", <an-> "re-" (lifted from Greek).]

> How Perceptive!:
>
> Let me smell your flowers.
      "Gedve navrva bleves šâs adâ."
      (I want to smell your flowers.)

"gEd     -vE  "no4     -vA  "vlEvE-s  S@s  Ad@
want-PROG.1SG smell-AOR.1SG flower.PL your ACC

[new words: <navrva> "smell, sniff", <gest> "want".  Yeah, I went back and
put it in the previous sentence too.  It's also in the first sentence, but
I did that one last.]

> Can you smell them?
      "Méére navrro tovs adâ?"

"me:rE  "no4     -4O  to:s   Ad@
can.2SG smell-AOR.2SG DEM.PL ACC

[new word: <mééva> "can, beable".]

> This flower smells of honey.
      "Navšto bleve tâmmé melte afo."

"noS      -tO  "vlEvE "t@mme "mEltE AfO
smell-PROG.3SG flower this   honey  from

[new word: <melte> "honey".]

> Flowers perfume the room with a heady scent.
      "Nuriŋte bleves ravre adâ navrte vešre metha."

"nu4i       -NtE "vlEvE-s  "4o4e Ad@ "no4tE "vESrE "mETA
perfume-PROG.3PL flower.PL room  ACC scent  strong  with

[new words: <nendrâva> "cause to smell", <navrte> "scent", <vešre>
"intense".]

> When I look at you I see your father.
      "Kâŋkog vavjes šé adâ, est iâššav vavjes fâstré šâs adâ."
      (When I see you, it's like seeing your father.)

"k@NkOg  voZEs  -0   Se  Ad@  Est j@SSo voZEs  -0   f@stre S@s  Ad@
whenever see-AOR.1SG you ACC, is  like  see-AOR.1SG father your ACC

It's probably possible that there's a look/see distinction, but I've been
up all night and am not really up to making it.

That's probably enough for this week >_<


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