Paiwan Every Day 344: vangavang

masanliawliaw a tjavangavang kasicuaian.

In English:

Our toys were many in the past. [We had many toys in the past.]

Glossary:

1. masan-liaw-liaw: there were many. masan “quantifier for countable nouns”; the root is liaw “many” in reduplication (RED)
2. a: subject case marker
3. tja-vangavang: our toys. tja- “our”, bound; the root is vangavang “toys”.
4. kasi-cuai-an: in the past. The root is cuai “long ago”.

Reading:

From CIP Online Paiwan Dictionary vangavang.