Pig Latin/Lessons/3: Basic Verbs

Main Concept

NAPL-folk are a skittish people, yet they are blunt, direct, and hate unnecessary complexity. Because of this, a ruffle common in other languages like Spanish, French, et. al., irregulary conjugations are not present in NAPL. Conjugations of NAPL are very standard-- there is only one exception to the standard conjugation, in fact. That's the word "to be" (covered next lesson). To keep ambiguity to a minimum and time spent talking short, conjugations signify both time and actor. The when and the who-done-it, all you'd need to solve a closed-circuit murder-mystery.

The conjugations are as follows:

Actor	Past	Present	Future
Me	-āyu	-ayu	-iyu
You	-āyā	-ayā	-iyā
He/She/They	-āyi	-ayi	-iyi
They	-āyī	-ayī	-iyī
We	-āyo	-ayo	-iyo

There are five more conjugations:

• Hypothetical (if they ran, etc.): -uyu
• Imperative (run away!,etc.): -ōyu
• Imperfect (he was/will finishing, etc.): -(past/future conjugation)i
• Infinitive (referring to an action): -ō

Examples

He runs: unrayi [unrō, minus infinitive (ō), plus tense (a), plus actor (i)]
She will run: unriyi [unrō, minus infinitive (ō), plus tense (i), plus actor (i)]
They (1) had run: unrāyi [unrō, minus infinitive (ō), plus tense (ā), plus actor (i)]
They (2+) was running/used to run: unrāyii [unrō, minus infinitive (ō), plus tense (ā), plus actor (i), plus imperfect (i)]
We ran: unrāyo [unrō, minus infinitive (ō), plus tense (ā), plus actor (o)]

Vocabulary

Here are some common verbs in the infinitive form:

1. unrō: to run
2. ētō: to eat
3. ilkō: to kill
4. ītfō: to fight
5. ēdnō: to need
6. āntōuō: to want
7. uvlō: to love
8. athō: to hate
9. iklō: to like
10. ōurītō: to write
11. līfō: to fly
12. ivlō: to live
13. akmō: to make
14. kukō: to cook
15. akbō: to bake
16. īndfō: to find
17. itgō: to get

Now for some common nouns and prepositions:

1. omhay: home
2. erťāy: there
3. ōurkay: work
4. ātťay: that

Exercises

NAPL to English

Translate the following into English:

1. Itgiyā ātťay.
2. Īāy rendfay ustjāy ilkāyā rāndmutrgay.
3. Ēōāy āmradkay akbiyi īnfāy!
4. Ilkāyui āmrādokay.
5. Ēdnijā īndfō ōurkay.
6. Makayī ōurkay erťāy.

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Answers I

1. You will get that.
2. My friend just killed grandmother.
3. Your comrade will bake finely!
4. I was killing comrade.
5. You will need to find work.
6. They make work there.

English to NAPL

Translate these into NAPL:

1. I eat that.
2. I had ran to work.
3. There, I found you.
4. I like you... Well, I love you.
5. I need to fly there.

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Answers II

1. Ētayu ātťay.
2. Unrāyu.
3. Īndfāyu erťāy ēō.
4. Īklayu ēō... Ōuelay, uvlayu ēō.
5. Ēdnayu erťāy līfō .