Re: TRANS: I learned Swedish in Uppsala. (was Re: Gray/Grey, conscripts, 'conlang', etc.)
| From: | Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 17:31 |
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Paul Bennett wrote:
> > >> (I learned Swedish in Uppsala.)
Okay, I want to play.
ejo dissti et-Svedi b'Uppsala.
I learned DO-Swedish in-Uppsala
ejo - first person pronoun, equal register (since you guys are neither my
superiors nor inferiors)
la diss -- to learn
diss-ti -- I learned (perfect, first person, singular)
et -- direct object marker (I keep vacilating between et and at, but I
think I'll settle for et)
be -- "in" with the sense of location. Followed by a definite noun, "ba",
followed by an indefinite noun beginning with a vowel, or a proper name
beginning with a vowel, "b'"