kipualang aken tua zikang.
Ferrell Translation:
I'll find out what time it is.
Word gloss:
- ki-pu-alang: to get understanding or knowledge of, to find out. ki- 'to get or obtain'; pu- 'to have'; the root is alang.
- aken: I, 1st person singular NOM clitic, but I put it separately.
- tua: OBL
- zikang: time, loanword from Japanese 時間 じかん. milingan is another word for time.
Voice file:
From Raleigh Ferrell's Paiwan Dictionary (p. 56).
This root alang and its derived forms including pualang 'hear, see, perceive, comprehend', pinualang 'to have been understood, UV', kipualang 'find out', sepualang 'come to understand', pasepualang 'explain' are not found in online dictionaries.
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