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mọs

u kassikunaha?
u ka-s-sikunaha ?
2SG CAN-use-car ?
Can you use a car?

mọs

memesa sinote, YIN salui hakono.
eye-3SG close-P, Jim listen-PST music
with his eyes being closed, Jim listened music.

mọs

nenatọta utaka me e o yasọma!
not-again 2SG-talk with 1SG and son-1SG
Don't talk with me and my son ever again!

mọs

yoneta ta stohasima.
snake LOC boot-1SG
There is a snake in my boot.

mọs

salu retimerus
feel lie.to-PASS
he feels deceived

mọs

hetakasa nesaenas, ukotaka!
wifi NEG-find-PASS, 2PL-RECP-talk
there is no wifi, talk between yourselves!

I used hetakasa, which means something like "distant communication", to translate wifi, even though that's not really something that exists in my conworld.

mọs

ao! esɯossa.
hello! 1s-VBZ-whatsapp
Hello! I am using Whatsapp.

mọs

ta asso ta yua HỌHI hui.
LOC hole LOC ground hobbit live-PAST
In a hole in the ground a hobbit lived.

HỌHI is the best rendering of hobbit that I could manage with mọs phonology. :v

mọs

ere ta hẹlẹku so ehẹlẹ manare.
I-go LOC market such.that I-buy food
I go to the market to buy some food.

:con: maurs eseshasiyun ohasiyun· e-ses-hasiyun o-hasiyun-Ø I-to.be-king all-king- GEN "I am king of all kings". The middle dot is used when a suffix is not pronounced because it is the same as the final sound in a word. In this case the genitive suffix -n . What problem did you have with...

maurs

eseshasiyun ohasiyun·
e-ses-hasiyun o-hasiyun-Ø
I-to.be-king all-king-GEN
"I am king of all kings".

The middle dot is used when a suffix is not pronounced because it is the same as the final sound in a word. In this case the genitive suffix -n.

Maurs

sustate son, neahọsoteaọma ka?
be.best-PART man, NEG-CAUS-be.couple-him-because INT
"Him being best man, why (she) doesn't marry him?"

Maurs



rẹ!
go
Go! (to one person) / (to more than one person) / Let's go


harẹọ!
CAUS-go-him
Let him go!


harẹsi!
CAUS-go-them
Let them go!

Maurs


lesate esa; nelesama enesa
can-do-PART, I-do; NEG-can-do-because, I-NEG-do
"being able to do it, I do it, because I'm not able to do it, I don't do it"

:con: maurs ossonyeni ta maku ta tọi yasunua; nelokiate kọo, tennetema senenin ɯa l·salua. all-person-one LOC here LOC short rest. NEG -know- GER purpose, think- GER -but moment- PTV REL it-feel Each person is here for a short sojourn; not knowing the reason; but sometimes thinking he feels it.

Maurs

nehanutite, hastakasta.
NEG-CAUS-die-PART, CAUS-be.strong-COMP
by not killing, makes stronger.

Maurs
Nus ta assota? neta? terte uannefari!
nus ta asso-ta? neta? terte u-annefari...
stone LOC pocket-2s? NEG-LOC? then 2s-lose!
Do you have a rock in your pocket? No? then you lose...

:con: Maurs The copula is a , which in inflected in the passive mood ( as ) to render the construction "there is" . The definite article is the prefix sa- Finally, maurs uses relational nouns to indicate positions, together with the locative particle ta . As son ta sura samokun. COP-PASS m...

:con: Maurs : Irregular verb a for all uses besides the predicate with an adjective, which uses a stative verb construction. The pronoun o is optional. (O) a icillamareson. (it) COP fish-hunt-er He is a fisherman. (O) stakar. (it) be.strong-PRES He is strong. (O) a maritoma. (it) COP husband-my He i...

Consonants can be geminated in any position in the syllable? Are there any conditions that regulate when consonants are geminated or not? Other than the allophonic rule you have about <j ts tc> between vowels, of course. Consonants can only be geminated intervocally, sorry, I sorta tend to take for...