Miskito/Lesson 1
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The verb usually comes at the end of a Miskito sentence. The first verb form you will learn is sa is. The subject often comes first in the sentence.
- Notice that Miskito grammar makes no gender distinctions. Both she and he are expressed by the same Miskito pronoun, witin.
- Notice that nini and tuktiki both mean my... (something), and both end in -i.
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The demonstrative pronouns are naha this and baha that.
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The general definite article ("the") is ba. The article follows the noun. There is another article na which denotes something near the speaker, and so is translated by "this".
- Notice the parallellism between the demonstrative pronouns naha, baha and the articles na, ba!
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The indefinite definite article ("a" or "an") is kum. This article follows the noun too.
- Kum is also the number "one".
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my father
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the
pron
that
n
book
n
animal
det
a, an
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woman
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det
this
pron
this
my name
is
too, also
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small
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big
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young
my child
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poor
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man
pron
she, he
my mother
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dog
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My name is John.
Nini Jan sa. My father is big.
Aisiki tara sa. He is young.
Witin tiara sa. My mother is young too.
Yaptiki sin tiara sa. That is my child.
Baha tuktiki sa. This is a book.
Naha buk kum sa. The woman is my mother.
Mairin ba yaptiki sa. The man is my father.
Waitna ba aisiki sa. My father is a man.
Aisiki waitna kum sa. This animal is a dog.
Daiwan na yul kum sa. |
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