Ei ullan shapalkí kú ye kembí, kodin?
Do you have any matches? Literally Topic any matches at of you, question
ull is an adjective meaning 'any'. In this phrase, after the topic marker ei and before a plural noun it takes the ending -an. The vowel -a- suggests the following word is feminine. (I suspect that this language would appeal to anyone who read the recent article on alien languages in Speculative Grammarian. The speakers probably come from a planet called Earthos!)
Shapalkí means matches. It has the same plural ending as katatôkí. It does have a singular form, shapalka.
Kú is a preposition meaning at, especially at a place. It is used with ei to mark the owner of a possessed object. Together ei andkú mean have. Ei marks the possessed object, kú the possessor. The possessor in this case is kembí, you. As kembí is a uninflected pronoun and kú takes the dative case the oblique accompanative preposition ye is used between them making a composite long preposition. Now I wonder if it should be kuye as a single word...
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