kiliu: napavalit sun tua su migami?
cekaw: ui, napavalit aken tua vaquan a migami.
In English:
kuliu: Have you changed your eye-glasses?
Glossary:
- na-pa-valit: to have changed. na- 'perfective (PRF)'; pa- 'to cause to occur'; the root is valit 'change, replace, ancestor'.
- sun: you, 2nd person singular nominative (NOM)
- tua: oblique (OBL) case marker
- su: your, 2nd person singular genitive (GEN)
- migami: eye-glass, loanword from Janapese めがね メガネ 眼鏡.
- ui: yes
- aken: I, 1st person singular NOM
- vaquan: new
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