Sentence 4.3

Ei kakaya rashlikana kú bolon châ ye bole châ?

I have been thinking about this sentence for a while now. How to get it correct, and how to find time to post it. The second is obvious. Stop dithering and post it. What difference is there between a bolon and a bol. Well for a start a bolon is a thing-noun, and a bol is a masculine noun. I've also had to bend a rule here, as I think bolon and bol should both be in the dative which for both would be bole. So bolon still has the nominative/accusative ending to accentuate the difference.

It interests me that there is two words for cup in ghostian, and they differ in grammatical gender. The difference will be explained in the next entry. Let's look at other parts of the sentence. The abstract noun rashlikana comes first after the topic marker. Abstract nouns are usually feminine nouns without the a-ending of other feminines. It's added here because it comes after the topic marker and needs to be dative in form. Feminine dative nouns keep the a-ending of the nominative form. Kakaya is the feminine form of the interrogative adjective What kind of.

The preposition kú doesn't mean between, it means at, especially at one's home, or at one's workplace. It's also used as the verb 'have' after the topic marker. The possessor follows the preposition kú. So this sentence is understood to mean A bolon and a bol have what difference? (That's beginning to make better sense now.) Kú is usually followed by a genitive. It appears thing-nouns do not change in the genitive case.

There is another rule about ya which is if it comes after an indirect object it changes to ye, which it has done before bole as it comes after the preposition kú.