Sunday, January 31, 2021

Paiwan Every Day 330: palak // kinapalak

uri ljemenguaq aken tua qezung a kinapalak nua vali nusauni. 

In English: 
I will fix the window that was broken by the wind soon. 

Glossary
  1. uri: will or be going to, future. 
  2. ljeme-nguaq: to fix or to make good. ljeme- 'to make to be'; the root is nguaq 'good, pretty'. 
  3. aken: I, 1st person singular nominative (NOM)
  4. tua: oblique (OBL) case marker
  5. qezung: window
  6. a: ligature (LIG)
  7. k<in>a-palak: to make broken, undergoer voice (UV). ka- 'stative gerundivization'; the root is palak 'destory, break, damage'. 
  8. nua: of, genitive (GEN), used as the subejct of a UV sentence
  9. vali: wind
  10. nu-sauni: soon or in a while. nu- 'in future'. 
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