Lingwa de planeta/Verb particles

In this lesson you will learn:
 * 15 verbs (kan, slu, telefoni, weiti, miti, klosi, ofni, begin, fini, stopi, chi, pi, bikam, repeti, maini)
 * 8 nouns (dwar, leta, versa, kafee, aiskrem, chay, vino, dela)
 * 10 particles (ba, bye, hay, magari, nomagari, wud, he, sal, zai, gwo)
 * 6 affixes (en-, ek-, fa-, mah-, -(i)fi, -(i)si)
 * 1 conjunction (si)
 * 4 useful words (shayad, mogbi, yo, haishi)
 * 3 etiquette words (plis, danke, skusi)

Total 47 vocabulary units ( + 167 from lessons 1-3 = total 214 units)

= Expression of commands, requests, wishes =

The basic form, used without a subject, expresses the imperative mood:

To express a request, they usually add plis (please) or bi karim (be kind). (if there is obviously only one indirect object with the verb, the preposition can be omitted: helpi a me = helpi me)

To explicitly express the imperative (imperative mood), you can add the particle ba:

To express the imperative in the negative form, the particle bye (in this case, the particle ba is not needed) is also used:

The meaning of "let's (do something)" can also be expressed using the particle ba:

The wish can also be expressed using the following particles (placed at the beginning of the phrase):
 * hay (let)
 * magari (if only)
 * nomagari (I wish not).

After these particles, not only the main form of the verb can be used.

(desire for the action to happen)

= Condition and convention =

When answering a request, sometimes the word "would" is needed: wud.

And the word "would" is closely related to the word "if": si (dan - then).

The word (conjunction) "if" can, of course, be used without "would":

= Action time specification =

When you answer a request, explain something in the answer, sometimes it is necessary to specifically indicate that some action is happening right now, will be happening very soon, or, on the contrary, has recently ended.

There are special clarifying particles in Lidepla for this:
 * zai ("be doing")
 * sal ("to be about to")
 * he ("already completed")
 * yus he ("just completed").

The particles wud and he can be used together before the verb when it comes to the assumption about the past:

Please note that some verbs can participate in the construction of verb sequences:

It may also happen that you will need to say that the action in principle took place, sometime, no matter when. Or it never happened at all. There is a gwo particle for this:

= Aspect prefixes =

Often, especially when telling a story, when it matters how the actions are connected to each other, it is important to show that the action began, or that it was abrupt, brief, single. For this, there are the following verb prefixes:
 * en- (beginning of action)
 * ek- (one time or suddenly)

With the help of these prefixes, you can also form verbs corresponding to Russian perfective verbs:

= Transition particles =

Many verbs in Lidepla can be used with or without an object:

However, in some cases it is necessary to emphasize the absence of an object (intransitiveness of the verb). This can be done with the particle fa-:

Using the particle mah-, you can emphasize transitivity or form a transitive verb:

The same particles are used with adjectives to report a change in some quality:
 * mah- do or do something
 * fa- become or become something

(written before an adjective with a hyphen)

It should be noted that these verbs primarily denote change of quality. There is also a verb bikam to report on the establishment of a new quality - to become:

You can also use suffixes to form verbs (from adjectives or other verbs):
 * -(i)fi (synonym for fa)
 * -(i)si (synonym for mah):

The particle fa- can also be used with nouns denoting, for example, the time of day:

= Conjecture expression =

You can express your guess with the words
 * shayad (perhaps, probably)
 * mogbi (maybe)
 * musbi (it must be)

(after these words, the main form of the verb is usually used if the assumption refers to the future):

In such sentences, the words yo (already) and haishi (still, still) can come in handy:

= New verbs =

= Text =

In a pet shop.

- Ob ye papagay?

- Non, bat yu mog kupi pelatuk (woodpecker).

- Ob ta toshi janmog shwo?

- Non, bat ta janmog yusi Morse-alfabet.


 * animal-shop - pet shop
 * papagay - parrot
 * kupi - buy
 * yusi - usi
 * Morse-alfabet — Morse alphabet

= Etiquette: Thank you! Sorry, what did you say? =

In order to express gratitude, the word Danke is used! (thank you) or the expression Danke gro! (Thanks a lot).

You can respond to gratitude with the expression Bi hao! (Please! Cheers! No way!) or Es syao dela. (It's a small thing.)

If you did not hear what the interlocutor said, you can ask again:

If you have heard, but do not quite understand what it is about, you can ask like this:

= Language in focus: Arabic =

The number of Arabic speakers is estimated at about 250 million people. However, classical Arabic as the language of the Koran is used to a limited extent by adherents of Islam around the world, and this is already more than one and a half billion people.

The appearance in the 7th century of the Koran, written in Arabic, generally became a defining moment in the history of the Arabic language. From that moment, the Arabic script finally took shape, and the standardization of the language (which existed mainly in the form of a set of related dialects) and the development of its literary form began.

Linguists note that the early monuments of the Arabic language testify to a significant number of borrowings from neighboring Semitic and Aramaic languages, from Persian, Greek, Latin, and later also from Turkish.

The next turning point in the development of the Arabic language was the turn of the 18th-19th centuries, when economic contacts between the Arab East and the West intensified. Today, international scientific and technical terms and mass media expressions are actively penetrating the Arabic language, despite the activities of the Arabic language academies, which make every effort to preserve it as unchanged as possible.

An excerpt from The Little Prince in Arabic (transcription reflects the sound only approximately; in Arabic they are written from right to left):

ah, ayyuhaa alamiir assaghiir, maa alwakt kadartu alaa an afham hayaataka alkaiiba, waktan tawiilan mad/saa wa lam tamlik — lita'aasii nafsik — illaa jamaal mash'hid g/huruubi ashams.

amaltu bihaad/saa fii ssabaahi alyawm arraabi.

amaltu bihaad/saa fii alyawmi arraabi indamaa kult :

"anaa uhibbu mashaahid ghuruubi ashams kat/siran, ta'aala, dina nuraakib hidaahaa.

You can see the original text written in Arabic script ЗДЕСЬ.

Lidepla words that are of Arabic origin:
 * nouns: salam (peace, hello!), talim (education), kitaba (book), dafta (notebook), kalam (pencil, pen), taraf (side), arda (earth), sabah (morning), bulbul (nightingale), ramla (sand), sahil (coast), saif (summer), fauha (smell), hamsa (whisper)
 * verbs: shakwi (complain), jawabi (answer), ahfi (hide), balbati (gurgle), raki (ride), safari (travel)
 * adjectives: karim (kind), rahim (merciful), salim (safe), muhim (important), jamile (beautiful), garibe (foreign), swate (black), jatile (intricate, sophisticated)

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