Il envirn est com vizers, com enférns, com enfantzes,
com lynchs cassantzes.
Is es com un roch sofer qui no musc créscez.
Is es com déntzes incompässivs
o las ungels achauzes d'un predazer.
Pforque quérem tze, "Es generos en la preivér?"
Vags sofer la tzir, e salauzes il amantz dé de la preivér,
qui un tras de verd lassaz.
Il envirn est com vizers, com enférns, com enfantzes, the:M winter be-3SG:PRES like old-PL, like sick-PL, like child-PL, com lynchs cassantzes. like lynx-PL hunting-PL. Is es com un roch sofer qui no musc créscez. he is like a rock on REL no moss grow-3SG:PRES. Is es com déntzes incompässivs he is like tooth-PL remorseless-PL o las ungels achauzes d'un predazer. or the:F-PL claw-PL sharp-PL of a predator. Pforque quérem tze, thus ask-1PL:PRES you-ACC, "Es generos en la preivér?" "be-2SG:PRES generous in the:F spring?" Vags sofer la tzir, wander-2SG:PRES on the:F land, e salauzes il amantz dé de la preivér, and greet-2SG:PRES the:M loving god of the:F spring, qui un tras de verd lassaz. REL a trail of green leave.behind-3SG:PRES.
Germanech is a Romance language with German-like sound changes. Its syntax is verb-second, except that infinite forms and verbs in subclauses (such as relative clauses) go to the end of the clause. Adjectives usually follow nouns, but they may precede them. I think the interlinear gives the information you need to translate the text; if in doubt, you may ask me. I posted a sketch of Germanech on the CONLANG list in December 2001 (you can find it in the archive at listserv.brown.edu); however, that sketch is partly out of date.Abbreviations:
1 1st person 2 2nd person 3 3rd person ACC accusative F feminine M masculine PL plural PRES present REL relative pronoun SG singular8-bit characters:
ä a-umlaut ö o-umlaut ü u-umlaut é e-acute
Winter is like old people, like sick, like children,
like lynxes a-hunting.
It is like a rock on which no moss grows.
It is like remorseless teeth
or the sharp claws of a predator.
Thus we ask you,
"Are you generous in spring?"
You wander about the land,
and greet the loving god of spring,
who leaves behind a trail of green.