What else?

Nú dua shaleste knihan, ai bodúta kadachen chet satek?

Pupil asks, Now that we have finished reading, what else shall we do? It's been a while since I wrote this sentence so I have to wonder how I constructed it. That happens a lot.

Nú is obviously 'now', and it is lengthened with the balance word dua. Also note that when ghostian has a vowel after a short u or i the first vowel becomes a consonant so dua is pronounced 'dwa'. I imagine in the ghostian writing system these letters have a special form, perhaps reduced in size or shape so that they have become jers.

It seems that to finish doing something in ghostian means that the verb is said as definite. Shaleste, done reading (the book).

The question follows a SVO form with the question word in the object position, the common position for question words in ghostian. The initial question tag at the beginning of the clause is ai before a non-verb. When the verb is moved into first place, which happens like English and other languages the question tag is a.

After the question word chet, what? follows the adjective satek. It is translated as 'else'.