liaw aravac a vuciyar i pasaqayaw tjayamadju.
Free translation:
There are many flowers in front of their house.
Word gloss:
- liaw: many
- aravac: quite, very much
- a: subject case marker
- vuciyar: flower, synonymous with hana (loanword from Japanese), veljangaw, paquljis, and buabuay in Ferrell, which is probably lost to use now.
- i: in or at, LOC
- pasa-qayaw: in front of, synonymous with kacasavan.
- tjayamadju: to them, towards them, of them
Voice file:
From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (1982), ILRDF Online Paiwan Dictionary kacasavan, and klokah vuciyar/veljangaw/paquljis.
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