Monday, 8 November 2010

Sentence 4.19

A tí da butilka inon yiha dua?

Is the bottle of ink his too?

Butilka, bottle, is a new word. Readers might recognise it from Russian. Yiha, his, is taken from a Indo-European language I have taken several attempts to create. I used this form because it turns up in various forms in different languages. So the third person possessive pronoun comes from a different stem than the other forms of the pronoun. The sentence ends with the balance word dua, which can be translated here as 'too, also'.

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