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kaìrfaì a gvaìr
kaìrfaìdudžall; īru džinra eìšany
ī xuaìš rūkh; raellia
aò ī xu hruš; syellia
aò ī xu lēkh; žūarrinn vaeren a kaìrfaì šthaëlann
īel hsyardris džin xu khyš; khāon; tahaon; brenon; a tiron
īruel khyšeles tšahra geàlarreið gaìnruið eìšaiðes
"Grandfather and the dragon
When my great-great-grandfather was a young man, he travelled out
into the world.
First he went west; there was only sand there.
Then he went north; there was only snow there.
Then he went east; there the mountains were too high and
great-great-grandfather couldn't climb them.
At last he decided to travel south, on foot, on horseback, by cart and
by boat.
In the south he saw the largest city in all the world."
| 4 | the number four |
| 3s.+ | third singular animate |
| LOC.g | marks located thing |
| LOC | marks location, more or less exactly |
| PST | past tense :) |
| PL | plural |
| EXP | experiencer, see [*] |
| INS | instrumental (not comitative!) |
| BEN | bene-/malefactive, dative, catch-all oblique, see [*] |
"Grandfather and the dragon"
"When my great-great-grandfather was a young man, he travelled out into the world."
"First he went west; there was only sand there."
"Then he went north; there was only snow there."
"Then he went east; there the mountains were too high and great-great-grandfather couldn't climb them."
"At last he decided to travel south, on foot, on horseback, by cart and by boat."
"In the south he saw the largest city in all the world."
[*] The experiencer (EXP) marks the subject, if an agent and animate of verbs of the complemented paradigm. Complemented verbs (daft name but I haven't bothered looking for a better one yet) functions as conjunctions, some complemented verbs are: think, consider, feel, hate, love...
When the complemented verb only governs a phrase and not a new sentence, that phrase is marked with the benefactive (BEN).
Example:
| 'S' | subordinated sentence/benefactive |
| 'V' | complemented verb |
| 'E' | experiencer |
E V S V E S S V E