Ring E: 15/22: Da Mätz se Basa

Interlinear

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Wän	dei	dir	se	Moda	donach	fach,
When	you	you	's	mother	there.after	ask,
If you ask your mother,

säch	de	bei	dei	gir,
say	she	to	you	with.pleasure,
she'll tell you will pleasure

widat	dei	meis	lip	se	Äs-Zuich	kan	is	mach	ja.
how.that	you	most	love	's	eat-stuff	can	be	make	yes.
how to prepare your favorite food.

De	wirt	säch:
She	will	say:
She'll tell you:

dei

zü

ine

Küch

to

un

dei

hol

Rin

se

Lau,

ni

Tofel,

ne

Sui,

you

go

into.the

kitchen

(!)

and

you

get

ox

's

meat,

some

potatoes,

a

water,

go to the kitchen and get beef, potatoes, water,

Hafa

o

Weitz

se

Fen,

ne

Wui,

ne

Jau,

ni

fil

Bang,

ne

Satz,

oat

or

wheat

's

flour,

a

butter,

an

oil,

some

many

onions,

a

salt,

oat or wheat flour, butter, oil, many onions, salt,

ne	Fäfa,	ne	Urfen	un	ne	Zip	fan	'Häsape'	to.
a	pepper,	a	chinese.five.spices.powder	and	a	sauce	of	'Häsape'	(!).
pepper, Chinese five spices powder and 'Häsape' sauce.

Dei	hak	de	Lau,	di	Bang	un	di	Tofel
You	mince	the	meat,	them	onions	and	them	potatos
Mince the meat, onions and potatoes,

un	mach	is	hak	se	Zuich	ine	Top
and	make	be	mince	's	stuff	into.a	pot
put the minced mixture in a bowl

un	ne	Satz	un	Fäfa	au	dobei	to.
and	a	salt	and	pepper	also	there.to	(!).
and add salt and pepper.

Ba	nim	dei	nich	te	fona	Satz	nä	to!
But	take	you	not	too.much	from.the	salt	(no)	(!).
But don't take too much salt!

Gätz	mach	dei	fona	Sui,	da	Wui,	da	Fäfa,	da	Urfen
Now	make	you	from.the	water,	the	butter,	the	pepper,	the	Chinese.five.spices.powder
Now make a dough from water, butter, pepper, Chinese five spices powder

un	da	Zip	ne	Teich	to	un	firdat	fül	de
and	the	sauce	a	dough	(!)	and	for.that	fill	it
and the sauce and in order to fill it,

mach	dei	aufe	fona	Hak-Zuich	si	Hape	to.
make	you	on.the	from.the	mince-stuff	's	chunks	(!).
put the minced mixture on it in chunks.

Dei	mach	de	do	ine	Saling	un	tu	ina	Jau	Fitür	to.
You	make	it	there	into.a	sieve	and	do	in.the	oil	fry	(!).
Put it into a sieve and fry in the oil.

Note: After the relay was finished, I found a mistake: in the first line, it must be dir se Moda instead of *dei se Moda. I corrected that.

Grammar

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• This is an a posteriori language derived from Modern High German. Some influence from Dutch, Afrikaans, Chinese, Bahasa Indonesia and several other languages can be found, mainly in the lexicon, but also in the grammar.
• The language is mostly isolating, with a few frequent words being fosilised fused forms, and with a few bound morphemes. Futher, compound nouns and verbs exist.
• Case: there's nominative and dative.
• Number: there's singular and plural.
• Plural and case are marked on the article.
• Adjectives, relative clauses and possessives precede the phrase they modify.
• Articles precede nouns (and their modifiers) and are optional in front of relative clauses. If left out in front of relative clauses, definiteness information is lost, and and instead of the article, the relative particle 'se' is inflected for number and case then.
• In this text, dative case occurs after prepositions; in other situations occuring in German, it was often replaced by a prepostional clause or by nominative case.
• For prepositions that can be followed by both nominative and dative case, nom. denotes a direction, dat. a location.
• Definite articles and 3rd person pronouns are indistinguishable.
• Preposition + 3rd person pronoun/article fused into one word if adjacent, no matter whether they belong to different phrases. This is a phonological fusion.
• In a verb phrase, auxiliaries precede the main verb. The first verb in such a phrase, the head verb, may be shifted around if word order changes.

• There are three word orders:

  V-Last Order (this is the basic order)

  SOV: in certain subordinate clauses

  V1-Order

  The first verb of the verb phrase is shifted to the front.

  In questions, some imperatives, and in certain subordinate clauses. Also after a conditional clause, the main clause may be marked by V1 order.

  V2-Order

  Any constituent is additionally shifted to the front.

  Normal propositional order: the fronted constituent is the topic. By default, this is the subject, so you get SVO order here.

  In the lexicon, conjunctions will show which order is selected.

• The very end of a clause is often marked with a complement either for truth value or for mood (or for both).
• 'se': in the construction: A 'se' B Here, A is a general modification of B. This is used for relative clauses, possessives, and composition. A bit like Chinese 'de' or Japanese 'no'.
• nouns are capitalised

Vocabulary

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äs	to eat
au	also, too
aufe	onto: on the (def.nom.sg.)
ba	but (coordination particle)
Bang	onion
bei	with nom.: to, towards with dat.: at, with
da	3.pron or def.art.: dat.sg.
de	3.pron or def.art.: nom.sg.
di	3.pron or def.art.: nom.pl.
dat	that: subordination particle (only occurs as a fused part of other words here)
dei	2.pron.nom.sg.
do	'there': makes a determiner: de/de/di + do = 'this, that'
dobei	'do' + 'bei': at this/that; to this/that
donach	'do' + 'nach': after this/that
du	all
fach	to ask: ask for X = 'fach nach X (dat.)'
Fäfa	pepper
fan	marks an apposition: Fäfa van 'X' = the 'X' pepper, the pepper of 'X' (where X is a name)
Fen	flour (or grains)
fil	much; many
Fitür	chip pan, deep fryer
fir	for
firdat	'fir' + 'dat': in order to
fona	'fon' + 'da'/'na': from/of the/a (indef.dat.sg or def.dat.sg.)
fül	to fill
gätz	now
gir	adv. to like to
Hafa	oats
Hape	chunk
Häsape	a name
hak	to mince, to chop
hol	to get, to collect
ina	'in' + 'na'/'da': in a/the (indef.dat.sg. or def.dat.sg)
ine	'in' + 'ne'/'de': into a/the (indef.nom.sg. or def.nom.sg)
is	to be; as an auxiliary verb, marks passive voice
ja	emphatically indicates positive truth value (end of clause truth value complement)
Jau	fat, lard
kan	to be able to
Küch	kitchen
Lau	meat; flesh
lip	to love
mach	to make, to do, to create; to put (with a directional prepositional clause present)
meis	most, the most: superlative marker
Moda	mother
nä	negative clause (end of clause truth value complement)
ne	indef.art.nom.sg.
ni	indef.art.nom.pl.
nich	not
nim	to take
o	or (coordination particle)
Rin	cattle, ox, cow
säch	to say: say to X = 'säch bei X (acc.)'
Saling	a sieve
Satz	salt
se	rel.nom.sg.
si	rel.nom.pl.
Sui	water
te	too (much)
Teich	dough
to	V2 order: marks an imperative; V1 order: marks a strong suggestion (end of clause speech act complement)
Tofel	potato
Top	pot; bowl
tu	denominaliser: makes a verb from a noun. The noun then syntactically behaves like a verb: 'Sui' = 'water', 'tu Sui' = 'to water', lit. 'to do water'.
un	and (coordination particle)
Urfen	Chinese Five Spices Powder: blend of star anise, cassia cinnamon, cloves, fennel, and Sichuan pepper.
wän	when; if. Triggers V-last word order.
Weitz	wheat
widat	'wi' + 'dat': how (a clause conjunction). Triggers V-last word order.
wirt	future tense marker: an auxiliary verb
Wui	butter
Zip	sauce
zü	to go
Zuich	lit. 'stuff'. Used as a suffix to convert a verb in a noun denoting the an object

Abbreviations

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2	2nd person
3	3rd person
art.	article
dat	dative case
def.	definite
indef.	indefinite
nom.	nominative case
pl.	plural
pron.	pronoun
sg.	singular
rel.	relative particle

Remarks

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Probably you will ask two things in return: 1) 'Mother, how can flour be made from oat?' 2) 'Mother, what's 'Häsape' sauce?' Bye, Henrik