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Re: Auxiliary verbs



--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, "HandyDad" <lsulky@r...> wrote:
> --- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, "Rex May" <rmay@m...> wrote:
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > "Da [paint] to dom vo go [help]."
> > > 
> > > Possible, sure:
> > > 
> > > Da pena to dom vo go pomo.
> > 
> > The difference just hit me:
> > 
> > Go pomo ke da pena to dom.
> > 
> > I help her paint the house.
> > 
> > Da pena to dom vo go pomo.
> > 
> > She paints the house with my help.
> > 
> > First sentence is about helping, second about painting.
> > 
> 
> Good! I don't know if Ceqli will need all these subtleties, but the 
> fact that they seem to crawl out of the woodwork unbidden is a 
> good sign.
> 
> Now, remembering the 'bread-eating man', how would we say:
> 
> 'I help the woman who paints the house.':
> 
> "Go pomo xi ke pena to dom."

Not "ke", it's the "that" just like its Esperanto namesake, that 
makes a sentence into a clause that can then be the object or subject 
of a sentence.
> -or-
> "Go pomo xi hu pena to dom."

This use of "xi" is offbeat but parallels the English way.  It can be 
that or 
"Go pomo to jini hu pena to dom."

(You might be helping her paint, or you might be giving her advice, 
or money, or encouragement!)
> -or-
> "Go pomo to pena to dom de xi."

That one is possible, and very Mandarin, but I would guess less 
popular than the "hu" form.  Equivalent, though.
> 
> ?
> 
> I'm asking all these hypotheticals in preparation for building 
drill 
> sentences.

Gabon!  

Lately, when I pronounce ceqli sentences aloud, I find that, partly 
in an attempt to avoid schwas and to distinguish between single words 
and compound words,  I'm clipping the words, making them sound less 
Romance and more German,  in fact, I sound a lot like Mojo Jojo when 
I speak ceqli.