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verbs?; i find i'm stuck on verbs.
Topic Started: Nov 28 2005, 05:24 AM (434 Views)
Salvago (slmm)
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so.. i'm a total sarus newb, but I find it quite facinating, and I'm quite eager to learn this.
However.. I wanted to translate some rather simple sentences into sarus.. (using the 'translator') after which i found that it couldn't translate some verbs.
I tried to search for anyone else who stumbled upon this, but that had no luck..

One sentence i tried to tranlate was 'I can't read this', which would then form "I cannot read this"
This however turned out as "dr tl ?read? mf" whereas you can tell, it couldn't translate the verb 'reading'. I checked the dictionary, for a possible 'read', or 'reading', but found none.

some other verbs, like 'would' could also not be translated.. I think 'would' could be seen as a past tence of 'will', however i can't find any sarus for 'will' either..

Are there as of yet any translations for said verbs, or havent they been implemented yet. Seeing sarus currently has something of about 500 words, I wouldn't be surprised if some words (or verbs, including those) aren't yet available in sarus.

Ohwell, help would be apreciated :bfoot: :)


*insert introduction here*
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Laroon
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"I would..." is the conditional form.

Dd is present.

Dr dd "run"
I run, I do run

Rr is past

Dr rr "run"
I did run, I ran

Mm is future

Dr mm "run"
I will run, I am going to run

Ff is conditional (this is the one you needed)

Dr ff "run"
I would run

Ss is imperative

Dt ss "run"
Let's run

The other two.. are

LL - ing. (running)
and Tt is kinda confusing. It's the state of something. Sleepy, Broken, Fixed, etc. It kinda takes a verb and makes it a noun.



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lfd-frt
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For tt, do you mean "I am sleeping"? Or is that dd? ~_~
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chluaid
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dd as the present tense isn't always necessary. And if you can't find certain verbs in the translator, try the dictionary... If you don't find it in either of those, then I'm afraid I haven't included it yet.

tt is the "done" version of a verb. For example sml (break) becomes tt sml (broken). rrm (do) becomes tt rrm (done). m (be) becomes tt m (been). etc..

double syllables also have their use alongside adjectives, which you'll find out about in the Sarus site (will be live in a couple of days from now).

Welcome to the forum btw, guys :)
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swartzer
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When is the dd not necessary? Are there rules about that or is it just "when it's obviously not anything else?"
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chluaid
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yeah I'd describe dd as denoting a kind of 'usually-does-something verb'.. like "walks", "sleeps", "thinks", etc. For example 'df dd frl lf ds sl' (he thinks of her always), or 'ds flm dd rrm df' (she usually does it)..

but then again, you could say the same things without the dd, and it would still be understood.

sometimes the dd can help you reinforce the tense if it becomes necessary, like if you're correcting someone.. e.g:

person1: ds rr rrm df? (she did it?)

person2: d... ds dd rrm df sl! (no.. she always does it!)

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swartzer
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Cool, that makes it a bit easier. (I'm still having trouble remembering the tenses, but it's getting better as I plow my way through the two-syllable words.)
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