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Topic Started: Jan 5 2007, 10:47 AM (2,078 Views)
scarrabee
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just another madman in the corner
what do you use as pre words (or somethink like that)
ex:
a dream
(didn't found it in the wordlist)

2nd fast question: doesn anybody has a idd how to write party??
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heregoesnothing
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yes! my turn!

l means a, the.

Woot!

so "a dream" would be l lrf!

(yes.)
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scarrabee
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heregoesnothing
Jan 7 2007, 04:01 AM
yes! my turn!

l means a, the.

Woot!

so "a dream" would be l lrf!

(yes.)

whoehoe thats one now only find something how I could explain the party
la ...
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bloodcoat
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now i know what 'A' is now how about 'Am'?
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chluaid
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think about it..
bloodcoat to answer your question, "am" is a variation on "be" or "is". Therefore, other ways to say "I am good":

I be good
I is good
I good


Generally in Sarus, for simplicity we just use "I good".
Dr ms

If someone asks "are you good?"
Rr dm ms

you would reply "be"
t

This is also an example of how/why "T" is used to also mean "yes".

If you weren't good, you'd reply "not"
d

Hope that helps.. but remember that most beginner questions like these are answered on the Sarus Lessons pages. You should get into the habit of checking those pages each time you have a question. If it's not answered there, I'm happy to answer it here.


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All the same, remember that in Sarus, one word can cover many different words in English that all have similar meanings. See below how 't' is used to encompass a number of different English words that pretty much mean the same thing: is, am, are, be, etc.

I am big
dr t mfr

It is there
df t lm

We are loud
dt t sdr

She is clumsy
ds t mmf

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Farlis
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heregoesnothing
Jan 7 2007, 01:01 PM
yes! my turn!

l means a, the.

Woot!

so "a dream" would be l lrf!

(yes.)

I believe a and an are call indefinite articles. I remember the srs word for a because in french, la is 'the'. It kind of means the same thing, just that 'the' is a definite article.
That's your English/Sarus/French lesson for today!
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Laroon
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Yea.. Farlis is right. I never thought of the feminine singular definite article of french (and spanish for that matter) to be "the" just like in Sarus. Great link Farlis. That's pretty clever.

About the A and An thing vs The-

(ahem) The word L (La) in sarus is simply for the definite article, not for the indefinite article. For everyone that didn't understand that, L (La) means "The" and nothing more. It doesn't mean A nor An.

To say "boy",
you say "Dsl".

To say "The boy",
you say "L dsl".

To say "A boy",
you say "Dsl".

If you think this is messed up and you might be thinking "Wait a darn minute. A language can't exist without the indefinite article!". But to those of you that say that have never studied an asian language. The don't even have definite articles. No "A", "An", or "The". It's all understood by context. But here, think of the following example:

Sarus : L lsd t ltt.
Literal: The girl is beautiful.
English equivalent: The girl is beautiful.
English slang: That chick is hot.

Sarus: Lsd t ltt.
Literal: Girl is beautiful.
English equivalent: A girl is beautiful.
English slang: Some chick is hot.


Now, with this, you can clearly see that the definite article changes the subject from just one random girl out of all that exist to a particular girl that you're referring to.

I hope this clears things up. I have colaborated with Adam on this language in the past, and if he's allowing me to say so, I believe I have a pretty clear understanding of this language.

Cheers!
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chluaid
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t, dr rmt dm rrl
(ti, dok remyt dom rekul)
yes, I allow you to say so :D

Laroon does have an excellent grasp of Sarus and someday I'll be asking him to write additional notes on the Sarus Lessons.

It's great to see others here are developing a good understanding of the language. Any of you who are interesting in contributing to the Sarus Lessons, stay active here and I may call on you a bit later.
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kingdomkey01
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Is there a way to add a past-tense, or a suffix, or anything? For instance, how would you change break to broken?
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chluaid
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Go Here and type "prefix" into the search field (without the quotes). You'll see that the double syllables are used for various tenses.

The one you're looking for is tt, which gives the past perfect tense (verb) or superlative (adjective).

verb examples:

  • sml - break
  • tt sml - broken

  • rrm - do
  • tt rrm - done

adjective examples:

  • ms - good
  • tt ms - best

  • sdr - loud
  • tt sdr - loudest

  • fl - more
  • tt fl - most

The word tt can be used by itself to mean 'most'.
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