Re: Translation thingy (was Re: Antipassive)

 --- Padraic Brown skrzypszy:

> > (the girl, who had hitten her (own) brother,
>                      ^^^^^^
> I like that!
I always have trouble with memorizing hard verbs in English :(

> > (1) Wenedyk has at this moment two words for
> > "to hit". The difference is subtle, but in
> > general "bas'cier" is more intentional than
> > "czadzier".
>
> Kerno has ferir and batter; the one being
> primarily "strike with the hand", the latter
> "strike with an object". There are others, to be
> sure!
Oh, but we have that one, too! "Wrzer", to be exact. The meaning of this one,
however, is more like "nudging" or "bumping".

Jan

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