Re: CHAT: TRANS: I learned Swedish in Uppsala.

In message <v04011701b4b3e581c84c@[144.92.89.203]>, Matt Pearson
<jmpearson@...> writes

>I'm the originator of the sentence, so I suppose I
>should contribute a Tokana translation:
Me too!

Elet Anta: In Uppsala ro carconvaw la cresc Elet Swedara

In Uppsala ro         carconvaw   la         cresc Elet     Swedara
I  Uppsala apposition city+in+ADV PERFECTIVE learn language Swedish+ACC

-onva: be in/at; -onvaw: adverbial form
Elet Anta doesn't much like adding things to foreign words, so it uses
the reduced noun 'carc' in apposition to Uppsala, and adds -onvaw to
that: "In the city Uppsala"
la: Elet Anta doesn't bother much with tense, but "la" here indicates
that I finished learning Swedish, I learnt the whole thing.  Without it
I would just have learnt for a bit but probably gave up without
finishing
Sweda: be Swedish - Elet is a prefix making a proper noun "Swedish
language".  Cf "Von Sweda": Sweden

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John Fisher   john@drummond.demon.co.uk   johnf@epcc.ed.ac.uk