Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 59: siking (しけん 試験)

I passed.

mapuzangal ti aken ta ku sinparian ta siking tua rinipungan. 

In English: 
I am glad that I passed the Japanese test.

Glossary: 
  1. ma-pu-zangal: become happy. ma- 'stative'; pu- 'to have'; the root is zangal 'joy, happiness'. 
  2. ta: oblique (OBL) case marker, used as that-subclause. 
  3. ku: my, 1st person singular genitive (GEN), used as subject of the undergoer voice (UV) verb in the subclause. 
  4. s<in>i-parian: passed, UV voice
  5. siking: test, loanword from Japanese しけん 試験. 
  6. tua: oblique (OBL) case marker
  7. r<in>ipung-an: Japanese language
Affix -in- and suffix -an are used together to refer to a language. Two more examples:
  • paiwan 'Paiwan' and p<in>aiwan-an 'the Paiwan language' 
  • ljautia 'Han Chinese' and lj<in>auti-an 'the Chinese language'
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