| be | v.imp. |
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| ble | v.s.hypo. | |
| mera | cont. | mei er a |
merekung
/merkung | v.i.pred. | is about to come or arrive. |
mermang
/meremang | v.inch. |
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mlei
/mle | v.past | came; arrived.
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| mlera | cont. | mlei er a |
| be kbong | expr. | goodbye; I'm leaving. |
me e mong
/memong | expr. | pass by; go on; "(in a direction) towards me and then keep going (past me)." |
| nguu el mei | expr. | bring. |
| ta el buil er mla me e mong | expr. | one month ago. |
Examples: |
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> If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things I write to you are the commandments of the Lord. |
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> Go to the store and buy us food. |
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> Everytime We come here, you ridicule us. Am I your inferior? |
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> The building in Ngerchemai burned down by itself. |
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> You don't want to go to the movies, and you don't even want to go to the restaurant, so what do you really want to do? |
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Proverbs: |
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> You're like a fish bait which can be eaten or pecked from the top and bottom. You don't know what to do because chores keep coming in from left and right. |
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> From the mature tree the sapling dribbles. Eseos is a mature tree, dalm is a sapling; olengimech means to drip, drizzle, or dribble. Application is to the similarity of the child to its parents, generally its father. |
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> When the purple swamp hen appears, it brings remembrance There is a song (Oumachas) from which this saying derives: Once there was a young couple who made love in a secluded spot in the taro garden. While they were lying together a purple swamp hen darted out of the brush startling the couple. Eventually love cooled, but thereafter whenever the girl saw a purple swamp hen while she worked in the gardens, she recalled her lover. Hence any occurrence that brings back fond memories. |
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> Like his father, for he ate his father's premasticated food. Applied to a child by adoption, with the implication that the adopted child resembles his adoptive father |
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> You grab and then you pick it up. Like telling a joke, you're still telling it yet you laugh like you just heard it. |
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More Examples: |
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> Oh my, their bellies and their clothes, they shoudl just go naked then. |
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> Try your hardest and you won't lose. |
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> Friends, these prices on canned mackerel are outrageous! |
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> I'm going to buy pants and a shirt and shoes. |
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> I so like your dress/shirt. |
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