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Re: corrected verb endings for classifiers tu/tu'a/tu'u



My current definitions give this result:
ye'ujon = [tenseless-habitual disjunct.]
tu'atrov = attack, assail
wa'ufed = slave of/to. [wa'ufeti = closed noun 't' + plural 'i']
zonpit = each other, one another

My translation is "The slaves attacked each other." 
I don't remember what the original was, but it could befrom one of Stefan Molyneux's podcasts. 

stevo

---In saweli@yahoogroups.com, <lytlesw@hidden.email> wrote :

I was trying to translate a sentence into Saweli when I realized that the verb as given in the dictionary could take only one argument, the subject. Yet my sentence required an object, and the default of that classifier was A/P-d. It turns out that the verb endings for the classifiers tu/tu'a/tu'u should have been "-v" (meaning 2 arguments, dynamic) instead of "-f" (1 arg, static). So I've corrected them.
 
My translation of the sentence is "Ye'ujon tu'atrov wa'ufeti zonpit." I heard the original English sentence in a podcast today. 
 
stevo