Monday, June 8, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 93: vavaw

pitju a lava i vavaw tua kasiw. 

In English:
There are seven flying squirrels on the tree.

Glossary:
  1. pitju: seven
  2. a: case marker for nominative subject
  3. lava: flying squirrel
  4. i: in or at
  5. vavaw: top 
  6. tua: case marker for oblique patient/object
  7. kasiw: tree, wood
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