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''Qs u kiniup rambor ust velo qanan qamif fisnur lui'' | ''Qs u kiniup rambor ust velo qanan qamif fisnur lui'' | ||
[-] ACC vegetables grow.3SG and ACC-and geese duck herd.3SG PRES.CONT | [-] ACC category-vegetables grow.3SG and ACC-and geese duck herd.3SG PRES.CONT | ||
''Andacikat rt u Telvisn mxar ust u mncibok bimir'' | ''Andacikat rt u Telvisn mxar ust u mncibok bimir'' | ||
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** Justification for this design choice (and others below) will be presented later. | ** Justification for this design choice (and others below) will be presented later. | ||
* ''Qs'' is a particle that only indicates the start of a sentence where the subject pronoun is dropped. | * ''Qs'' is a particle that only indicates the start of a sentence where the subject pronoun is dropped. | ||
* The "and ACC-and": the former is a conjunction that forms the parallel structure; the latter marks a list of items, in the form of "and X Y Z ..." until the next verb or particle. | |||
** The latter "and", ''elo'', is further fused with the accusative particle ''u'', and here it means the accusative particle applies to each item in the list. | |||
* The tense-aspect auxiliary verb is flexible: it can govern a full sentence, as shown here, or apply only to the one verb before it. | * The tense-aspect auxiliary verb is flexible: it can govern a full sentence, as shown here, or apply only to the one verb before it. | ||
* A single concept corresponds to a single word, which is common in agglutinative languages. | * A single concept corresponds to a single word, which is common in agglutinative languages. In this example, "chat with" corresponds to ''bimi'' and "spare time" corresponds to ''andacikat'', both single words. | ||