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by on June 10, 2017 at 12:37 pm
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frislander:

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Translate the sentence “My hovercraft is full of eels!”

Well the Äwara haven’t ever seen a hovercraft so I’m going to have to borrow the English for this translation.

kinaanatät kinitembebemayik baareteyä abäkrabät märe!
ki-naa-nat=t ki-ni-tembe-be=ma=ik baaret=yä abäkrabät mä-de
ANI-LOC-lie=DIR ANI-CAUS-be.full-PROG=CONJ=PROX.ANI eel=PROX.INA hovercraft 1-APOSS
My hovercraft is full of eels! (or more accurately, “Eels lie in my hovercraft causing it to be full!”)