Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 115: namacingki

namacingki aravac a nia kakesan. 

In English: 
Our kitchen is very clean.

Glossary:
  1. namacingki: the root is "cingki" (clean, a loanword from Taiwanese or Southern Min dialect). [na-ma-cingki] means clean; na- makes a perfect tense; ma- makes an actor voice. 
  2. aravac: very, quite
  3. a: case marker for the nominative
  4. nia: our
  5. kakesan: the root is "kesa" (to cook). [ka-kesa-(a)n] means the place where one cooks, the kitchen. 
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