Re: The Bitha overview
| From: | Larry Schelin <lschelin@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 4, 1999, 3:24 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> Larry Schelin wrote:
> > ngidu mi baidi dish itsiratsah
> > She's going home in an hour (or less)
>
> Ah, so the ones that you called "hour ago" is "hour or less ago"? Makes
> sense.
>
Yes exactly... It's depends on how specific you want to be, "vith" if it happened in
the past, "dith" if it happened in the last hour, and a number with "dith" if you want
to be more specific.
>
> > Bima-(noun-minute) -ghah (plural suffix-5 or more) ghengah (number- 15) vith
> > (tense marker-past) ju (pronoun) mi (tense marker, present) ghengah (verb-throw)
> > isha-(noun-ball) -dzi(prepositional suffix, at) bith (tense marker, 1 minute ago)
> > zija (noun-dog)
> >
> > 15 min ago I threw the ball at the dog.
>
> I don't understand why you have _bith_ there?
I don't understand why you don't understand. Perhaps it's because I wrote it, and I
already understand what I mean. Could you explain what confused you?