naljemama aken tua tagaduan ka sicuayan.
In English:
I once set fire to an entire mountain.
Glossary:
- na-ljemama: had set fire to. na- perfective; lj<em>ama 'to burn, to set fire', actor voice.
- aken: I, 1st personal pronoun, singular
- tua (ta): oblique case marker
- ta-gaduan: one mountain. ta- 'one of the quantity or measurement'; gadu-an 'mountain'.
- ka si-cuay-an: before. ka- nominalization of a state or 'abstract nominalization' (Huang, "A Study of Verbal Morphology in Putjelji Paiwan", p. 180); si-cuay-an 'a long time ago'.
Reading:
No, I have never set fire on anything. Ah, perhaps yes, argument. I hate what is not right.
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