Sunday, December 13, 2020

Paiwan Every Day 281: sepi // pusepi

pusepi aken a kaseparia tua siking ta daigaku. 

In English: 
I was lucky to have passed the extam to the university. 

Glossary: 
  1. pu-sepi: have luck or lucky. pu- 'to have something'; the root is sepi 'dream, luck'. 
  2. aken: I, 1st person singular nominative (NOM)
  3. a: ligature (LIG)
  4. ka-se-paria: to have passed. ka- 'in past in variation with ta-'; se- 'to have quality of'; the root is paria 'pass or qualified'. 
  5. tua/ta: oblique (OBL) case marker
  6. daigaku: university, loanword from Japanese だいがく大学. 
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