Prerequisite: Lesson 9.
New words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lala | to sleep |
| otur | to sit |
| suru | to do, to make |
| ambil | to take |
| kupi | to buy |
| situ | there |
| sar | head |
| ain | eye |
| mano | hand |
| familia | family |
| hotel | hotel |
| telefon | telephone |
Here and there
sini has its pair now.
| Mi otur sini. | I sit here. |
| Yu otur situ. | You sit there. |
| Hotel nali? — Situ. | Where is the hotel? — There. |
| Familia mi situ. | My family is there. |
Doing things
| Yu suru ke? | What are you doing? |
| Mi suru rabota. | I’m working. — literally: I do work |
| Mi ambil telefon. | I take the telephone. |
| Ta suda kupi pan. | She bought bread. |
| Kita saufa kupi ca. | We’ll buy tea. |
The body
| Sar mi garam. | My head is hot. |
| Ain ta kabir. | Her eyes are big. — or: her eye is big |
| Mano-mano anak keci. | The child’s hands are small. |
| Mi kan yu. Ain mi hao. | I see you. My eyes are good. |
ain on its own is neutral — one eye or two, as the situation makes obvious. ain-ain when the “two” matters.
A day, start to finish
Din. Mi ambil telefon. Mi suru rabota. Mi go market. Mi kupi pan, ca, akua. Mi lai ruma. Familia mi situ. Kita kula una. Rat. Mi otur. Mi lala.
Day. I take the phone. I work. I go to the market. I buy bread, tea, water. I come home. My family is there. We eat together. Night. I sit. I sleep.
Every verb in that story is in its one and only form. Not one of them changed for I, for we, for past or present.
A conversation
— Pardon, hotel nali? — Situ. Yu-yu es familia? — Ya, mi-mi es familia. Anak-anak mi-mi mau lala. — Ok. Hotel hao. Yu-yu saufa lala hao. — Mersi!
Excuse me, where is the hotel? — There. Are you a family? — Yes, we’re a family. Our children want to sleep. — Ok. The hotel is good. You’ll sleep well. — Thanks!
Practice
- Yu lala kab? — When do you sleep?
- Mi suda kupi telefon. — I bought a telephone.
- Otur sini, plis. — Sit here, please.
- Sar ta mal? — Is his head bad? (does his head hurt?)
- Familia yu situ? — Is your family there?
- Ta-ta suru ke sasa? — What are they doing now?
What you can already say
Ten lessons, 88 roots — past the first milestone of 80. You can now tell the story of a whole day, name the body, point here and there, buy and take and make and sleep.
A note on word order. situ, like sini and sasa, sits at the end of its sentence here. Where place and time words go is still an open decision; see grammar/questions.md.