rasen teko kuna dasena neta tene. ne seta futa, sekata ga ta. ne sura fane sutaka ki, ane ne shira mashite moku ga, an ne china makuse ga. ane serita riti parine, an sura fane noku ne rasena pare teko, ha, ne rasena pare.
an and
ane but
chin- jab
fane flower
futa pig
ga away
kuna time
makuse the name of a legendary snakelike creature with many legs, killed by the first chief of the kasano
mashite sword
moku stone
neta complete
noku because
pare clear
parine young animal
rasen- begin, become
riti happily
sekat- chase
sen- to be
serit- play
set- come
shir- cut
sur- grow
sutaka mountain
teko sky
tene everything
word order is primarily VSO. adjectives and adverbs follow the words they modify.Verbs agree with the gender of the direct object or the subject in intransitive sentences. the only gender that occurs in this text is the one with the verb ending -a, so i don't think i have to explain that...
two mood markers occur in this text, "ne" basically means "not", and comes at the beginning of the sentence (or clause), and "ta" indicates the subjunctive and comes at the end like all the other mood markers do.
there are several noun "cases" indicated by postpositions. the ones that occur in this text are:
the best way i know of to explain how they are used is with an example, so:ki locative da genitive ga <similar to>"a flower in the mountains" (or at/on the mountain / near the mountain(s))
"fane sutaka ki"
time to begin the sky (???)everything was complete. pigs were not coming, perhaps they were chased away. flowers were not growing in the mountains, but swords were not cutting like stones, and not jabbing like
. but young animals played happily, and flowers grew because the sky did not become clear, yeah, it did not become clear.