Thursday, July 23, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 138: qaqudrui

nu kaljaculjuan, liav aravac a qaqudrui i ta pana. 

In English:
In summer, there are a lot of dragonflies in the river.

Glossary: 
  1. nu: if, when 
  2. kaljaculjuan: the root is "culju" (warm, hot, heat). [kalja-culju-an] means the place or time when it is really (kalja-) hot, hence summer.  
  3. liav: a lot of, many
  4. aravac: quite, very
  5. a: case marker for the nominative or subject
  6. qaqudrui: dragonfly, dragonflies
  7. i: in or ta
  8. ta (tua): case marker for the oblique or object or beneficiary
  9. pana: stream, river
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