McGuffey 1:7-13

Since I have time it is worth posting the next page from the McGuffey Reader.  Especially since I have worked them out, and I can see the number of hits you gave me for posting.  Please feel free to comment, question or complain.  Maybe I can improve the messy presentation that blog-composer gave me last time.  Cross fingers!

[7] Binú tag' ume! See the man!
[8] Binú tago taknok as umena! See the boy and the man!
[9] Ta ume tent údnon pillon, The man has a hat.
[10] A tent ta taknok údnon pillon? Has the boy a hat?
[11] Ta taknok pohat kúrina, The boy can run.
[12] A pohat ta ume kúrina, Can the man run?
[13] Ta ume pohat bina tago taknok kúrina, The man can see the boy run.

Binú is the imperative of bina to see.

Tago drops the final -o before a noun beginning with a vowel.

Ume means man, husband.  In the genitive form of the noun after as the stem is umen-.

Tent is the form of the verb to have, to hold, when the subject is a noun.

Údnon is the neuter form the indefinite article.  It comes before the neuter noun pillon, hat.  The neuter noun and the indefinite article have the ending -on in the Eclectic Tongue.

Kúrina means to run.

A is the question marker.  It comes at the beginning of a sentence. When it is used the sentence changes order so that the verb comes directly after it, and then the subject of the sentence.