Thursday, 2 September 2010

Dialogue 3.9-10

A ve kalehen bodúta kakanian knihan?

Pupil asks Do we read which book? Nothing new here. I should note that the stress in the word kalehen should be on the verb stem kalehen. Putting the stress on the prefixed syllable sounds wrong.

Ye bodúta ve kalehen ten lehayon

Teacher says Let us read this reader. Again this sentence uses words that we have already encountered. A new word is the neuter instrument lehayon made with the stem, to read, so an instrument for reading. Again the stress would have to be on the stem, not in this case the second syllable.

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