Seti din

The sixth text. A child is ill, and is taken to the hospital.

It was written to reach the part of the dictionary nothing had reached. Five roots — kulit, yanlis, foto, ba, nau — appeared nowhere in a sentence in the whole repository: they existed as a dictionary row and nothing else. Forty-five more appeared exactly once. Most of them were body parts, illness words, and the high numbers. A doctor’s visit is where those three meet without being forced together.

Written at 300 roots, with no grammar beyond Lesson 23.

Anak bimar. Ta bimar seti din.
Sar ta garam. Kulit ta garam tena.
Ta no mau kula. Ta no mau lala.
Mama ta espera. Anak no lebi hao.

Mama aur anak go hospital pagi ini.
Es cok insan in hospital.
Nau insan espera in kamra baru.
Ta-ta espera du hora.

Doktor buka mulut anak. Ta lihat dente.
Ta lihat ain aur telinga. Ta senti kulit anak.
Kulit garam.
Mesin ambil foto korpo anak. Doktor lihat foto.

Mama tanya: "Kalb anak mal?"
Doktor respon: "No. Kalb anak hao.
Korpo ta kuat. Ide yu yanlis."
Doktor beri ilac por mama.
"Anak nomu ilac ba din."

Anak nomu ilac ba din. Ta lala cok. Ta kula tena.
Kulit ta no garam. Ta no bimar.
Anak go skola tena. Ta senang.

Line by line

What the text found

A machine takes a photo of a body. Mesin ambil foto korpo anak. The language has no word for an X-ray and did not need one: a machine, a picture, a body. Nothing was lost here — though calling it compounding, as this note first did, was wrong: it is a sentence, and the language forms no compound words.

No copula anywhere in twelve predicates. Sar ta garam, Korpo ta kuat, Kulit garam — every one of these is a noun and an adjective with nothing between them. English needs is twelve times here; Amadunia needs it zero times, because es is only for noun predicates. It appears once in the whole text, and there it means there are.

The high numbers work like the low ones. seti din, ba din, nau insan — seven, eight and nine behave exactly as du does, which is the whole claim of the number system and had never actually been shown.

Gaps

Three things this text wanted to say and could not. None of them was invented to make the text work.

The perfect is not in the language, and this line was borrowing it. Ta bimar seti din was glossed “he has been ill seven days” until September 6, 2026. The Amadunia has no tense marker at all and no word for for: it is an unmarked predicate with a bare duration after it, and the English perfect was doing work the sentence does not do. Whether suda covers the perfect is an open question, and a gloss is not the place to answer it. It reads “he is ill seven days” now, which is awkward English and exact Amadunia.

There is no word for pain. (First on the list.) The child is ill for seven days and never says where it hurts, because there is no way to. The nearest root is mal, bad, which is not the same thing — a bad leg is not a leg that hurts. This is a dictionary gap, not a grammar gap, and it is the first one found by writing rather than by counting. Recorded for the vocabulary after A1.

Ordinals are still open, and this text is the clearest case yet. The story runs on days: ill seven days, medicine eight days, back to school after that. It wants on the eighth day and on the ninth day, and can only say for eight days. The line “Anak go skola tena” — the child goes to school again — is a retreat from a date to an adverb. See the open question in grammar/README.md.

A doctor cannot tell a patient to open their mouth. It can now. The examination is written from outside — Doktor buka mulut anak, the doctor opens the child’s mouth — because on the day it was written there was no settled imperative to write it from inside. This paragraph was one of the sites that argued for one, and unlike the sites counted in the briefing it was found by writing rather than by grep. The rule arrived on September 3, 2026: a verb with no subject is a command, so Buka mulut is now sayable. The text is left as written, because what it records is what the absence cost.

Roots used

58 of 300.