11/02/2015 Class

61-akʃoʈʈi

Frog story notes:

-ke may have animacy constraints

-But not… football-ke latimar almost makes it a proper noun, football-ta-ke latima

-Kick the football

-Maybe specific non-specific

 

-Ti is for less important things?

Something small?

baca hathi-ti? Little elephant? Most people would use ta, more about significance

boj-ti, the book, can be inanimate

Anyone in a story

bangla kub soboj, Benali is very easy

39:24

Twenty questions:

1. ami akta loker kota pabchi

     I   one  person  word thinking

“I’m thinking of a person”

2. e lok-ti chele na mei

    this person boy or girl

e lok-ti chele

“this person a boy”

lok leans towards male

3. e chele-ti ghor-e boʃe achhe

  this boy-the room-E sit is

na

4. e lok-ta ki america-te taker?

this man-TA KI US-TE stays

koik bocor-er jono tekecilo

some year-ER for had.stayed

5. e lok-ta ki bharotio

this person  KI India

bharot-India

Na

6. e lok-ta ki gan bajna kore

                 song-instrument does

 gan bajna kore- do music

na

7.  e lok-ta ki rajniti-te pagnito

                 rule-law-TE took.part

“...took part in politics?”

na

8. ini ki film-e obhinai korten

    this.person KI film-E act did

"Did this person act?"

Na 

9. ini ki addhatik manuʃ cile

this person KI  religious person?

Na

10. ini ki kalponik coritro

  this.person KI fictional/imaginary character

kalpona kora-to imagine

Na

11. ini biggan corca korten

         science practice did

hã

“yes”

12. ini ki Germany-te-ke cilen

this.person Ki Germnay from was

Germanir bhaʃi-resident of Geramny

bhaʃ kora-live in a palce

bhãʃi-flute

bhãʃ-bad smell

bhãʃ-bamboo

Last two are different in Hindi

“yes”

13. enar nam ki Albert Einstein

"is his name Albert Einstein?"

maddharkorʃa ʃokti

"Gravity:

 middle-attraction force

Mhmm

Hã

ʃabaʃ="tai hao le" (Chinese) "very good"

Verbs:

ke pala, to finish eating

ke, having eaten

having been eaten ke

the fish that had been eaten *ke mac

jei mac-ta-ke kawa hoye cilo

the.particular fish-the-KE eat had been

jei mac-gulo-ke

the fish(plural) that

dhore having been caught

jei mac-ta-ke dhora hoye cilo

the fish that had been caught

jei mac-ta boka-ta-ke dhore-cilo

the fish that was holding the bug

o jei mac-ta dhorecilo ʃei-tai kelo

he the particular fish that (he) had caught THAT ate

“he ate THE fish that HE caught”

The fish he ate is the fish he caught

mac-ta dhora porlo

The fish was caught

mac-ta lok-ta jale kara porlo

The fish was caught by the man’s net