Re: Another little translation exercise

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 03/04/99 15:44:44

<< Irina Rempt wrote:
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 > A motto occurred to me that I read on a seventeenth-century house in
 > Haarlem (my native town) and that I've more or less adopted as my
 > own:
 >
 >    Beginnen can ick, volherden wil ick, volbringhen sal ick
 >
 > In English:
 >
 >    I can begin, I want to persevere, I will succeed. >>

In Tunu :

"Pona tamitami wakana tomo nupi rasirasi akana nati maka torutoru okana."=20

pona tami-tami wa-kana
abibility beginning-beginning(1) ERG-me(2)
I can begin

tomo supi rasi-rasi a-kana
also desire perseverance-perseverance ATT-me
I want to persevere as well=20
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nati maka toru-toru o-kana
become achievement success-success BEN-me
so I shall succeed=20

(1) Reduplication shows generalization.
(2) "kana" (I, me) is usually omitted but I kept it above to stress the=20
series of ERG, ATT, BEN.

Tunu (as of today:-) :
a, e, h, i, k, m, n, ng, o, r, s, t, u, wa, ya.
r =3D Japanese one-trill r.
VOS.
Prepositions =3D verbs.
wa- : erg. a- : att. ya- : nom. e- : pat. o- : ben. u- : loc. i- : equ.
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Mathias