Friday, 22 April 2011

Pronoun notes

  • Petta tí-ten kem kembí brant? What would you like?


  • My next cluster of notes have to do with question words. The examples are mostly from French, obvious from the sentence structure above. A literal translation of the sentence is What is it that you are-taking?

    In the language brannant means to be taking. Some actions use different verbs when the action is a definite, once-and-for-all action; and when it is generic. An unrepeatable action would use weyant, to take. In this case when offered something the verb brannant is used for 'would like'.

    And the question pronoun used here is petta, what, which thing.

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