kanen ni kama azua sinandjamai ni kina.
In English:
Glossary:
- kan-en: eat, undergoer voice (UV). The root is kan 'eat'.
- ni: of, genitive (GEN) case marker, used as the subject case marker of a UV verb.
- kama: father
- s<in>an-djamai: vegetable cooked by, UV. san- 'to work on'; the root is djamai 'vegetable'.
- kina: mother
Reading:
From CIP Online Paiwan Dictionary kanen.
kina naluku too likes to makes UV sentences when she speaks Paiwan. UV can be roughly understood as passive. Why?
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