Sunday, 19 September 2010

Get your things

Te tua dost o bodú. Dua bodúta kiriben.

Duen. Bodúta kiriben

These two sentences bring Dialogue Three to a close so I will do them together. Pupil says I will get those things. Then we will write. Teacher agrees and says Good. We will write.

The word 'to get' is dohant. Ghostian reverses the arrangement of the sentence from English. The things to be gotten, te tua, move from the object position after verb to the subject position in front of it. The agent of the verb is marked by a special preposition o to show this is who does the action. So dohant is really a passive verb: Those things are gotten by me. Dost would be the most common form in the present tense, the plural form dohen is only used after pronouns, which in this case would be te, those, these, standing alone. Dos, the first person singular form, would be exceedingly rare.

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