Re: Vocab exercise, year 2, #1

Better late than never dept. (Kash):

>Theme: topicalization (make the vocab word the topic or focus of the
>utterance).
>
>1. crowd
>There was a huge crowd in front of the building.
yale pangaçu raka-raka ri kandini areyal
there-is crowd big-big LOC front-its temple

>2. lead
>She led her dog into the field.
yasaren lopani ri andeleye
3s-lead lopa-his/her/the LOC field-dat.

>Her dog was on a lead.
yawumit lopayeni acitaren
3s-use  lopa(dat.)-his/her "leash" (acim 'cord', saren 'lead')


>The pipes are made of lead.
eçuç niç, (i)mepu kerekorem
pipe-pl these, (they-)make lead (idiomatic, to be translated "...are made of
lead")
>
>3. ready...haram
>He's ready to go now
yaharam (ya)cosa tayanju

3s-is-prepared (3s)-go now
>
>4. slow....fanan
>Snails are slow.
purapo yafanan
(an animal) is/are-slow

>He runs slowly, and I bet he won't win the race.
yamani yafanan, çañukmi, ne cakenda
run(ning)-his it-is-slow, guess-my, him(dat.) trounced. (Well, close,
anyway)
>
>5. rent
>I have to pay rent on the 5th of every month.
macayi (ma)hanga [rent]-ni lero nim açuçurak
I-must (I-)pay  [rent]-its  day 5  every-month (irreg.redup. of açurak)
(Sorry, not in a word-discovery mood just now)
>
>6. popularity
>This was just a popularity contest.
tayu, napo ambunuk liri lisa-lisañi  (< lisa-lisam-ni)
this, just  contest  concerning favorite-of it
>
>
>7. -ion
>two parts here: first, how are verbal nouns formed?
>   act > action, mepu > ambepu (añ-mepu)
   move > motion, koram > angoram (añ-koram)
   see > vision tikas > andikas (sense of vision) (añ-tikas)
>second, the sentence:
>   His action was hasty.
   ambepuni (ya)cakaniçur 'his action was rash'---
more colloq:  mepuni, cakaniçur
but that could also mean, 'his work was hasty/slapdash'
>
>8. addition
>Even the addition of an extra student increased class sizes beyond
>tolerable limits.
kamu andanotni mesa kandelañ lavi supat yarundavi andrakani........
even addition-its one student more too-much it-increased size-its..[class
beyond tolerable limits] ......
>
>9. hat
>Today is a say-something hat day!
letrayu milimbe payo cacandok!
today we-wear cape gaudy.  (As close as we can get.  Kash don't wear hats)
>
>10. ........it's getting late........ sorry.