marekasinglit tiamadju a madrusa.
In English:
They two miss each other.
Glossary:
- mare-ka-singlit: to miss each other. mare- 'reciprocal (+ noun or stative verb); ka- 'stative'; the root is singlit 'to miss'.
- tiamadju: they, neutral third personal pronoun
- a: ligature
- ma-drusa: two (people). ma- 'stative; number of persons'.
Reading:
From Wei-chen Huang, "A Study of Verbal Morphology in Putjelji Paiwan" (2012), p. 47.
What I want to ask after all these years is, "Do we, too?" marekasinglit amen uta a madrusa?
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