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Showing posts with label prepositions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prepositions. Show all posts

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Directional prepositions

Like demonstratives in Reisu directional prepositions have one more degree than English. For example we can talk about 'below' as directly below (vu) and below with at least some separation by distance (yu).

HaBeside, next to
BiBeside, but not directly next to. Implying an object or some distance is between the two things
VuBelow, directly below, hanging from
YuBelow, with an object or distance seperating
FaOn top of
KaAbove
MaDirectly in front of
BeIn front of, with distance or an object sepearting
DiDirectly behind
FiBehind with distance or an object between


Examples of Ha/Bi:

Po okoko ha okoko eino kuala obani.
Inside House beside house 1S-POSS equals neighbor.
In the house next to mine is my neighbor.

Po okoko bi okoko eino kuala obani.
Inside house beside-with-something-separating 1S-POSS equals neighbor.
In the house down the street from mine is my neighbor.
Bi could mean the house is two doors down, across the street or down the street.

Po okoko bi okoko eino ukuala obani.
Inside okoko far-from house 1S-POSS NEG-equals neighbor.
The people in the house far from me are not my neighbors.
This use of bi implies the other house is very far from the speaker's house, too far to be neighbors.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Prepositions

Prepositions are something that gets me in languages I don't know well. Every language seems to use them differently, and there's rarely a hard and fast rule for exactly when each preposition is used. Sometimes many can be used, but only one sounds right. You get the idea. I have made some prepositions in Reisu, and I plan to flesh them out more when I start translating more things. For now I have English equivalents for this the best I can.

With (using)Ja
During/Among/In (not inside)Pa
To/Towards/For/UntilLo
Apart/Away fromBi
At (a specific place/time)Le
Inside/BetweenPo
OfFe
Together/Along/WithGi
By (passive voice)Ba