Re: Useful phrases for tourists

FOR DRUNI TOURISTS:

A beer please!
"Lashelo, tash!

(lashel isn't beer but its Druni cultural equivalent) the CD (Common Druni
acusative is used the more formal HD [High Druni] would be "lashelova"; as
would a more formal "please" be "tashe")

Where is the bathroom?
Kinza ta djindjbir?

(Very colloquial: "where [is] the feces-place?" Here in Common Druni a cruder
form is used and the copula is omitted. In more formal settings one would say:
"Kinza ta dozhfad onyara?" (Wher is the bathroom [water-room]?

Don't shoot! I'm a tourist!
Beneynafyates ra! Kuteyrek zhoy!

(Emphatic imperitive: "Kill not! A visitor I! ) Here the direct object
"zhoyova" [me] is left out.  In more formal speech one would say: "Ra-
beneynafyates zhoyova! Kuteyryaru!)

I don't speak Druni.
Eypyaru Drunizhe ra!

(Colloquial emphatic: I speak Druni not! More formally one would say: Ra-
eypyaru Drunizhe.)


Jim H
ta Druntan