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mtob_45
{ "orig": "Mayor has finished eating, he's rinsing his mouth.", "translation": "Mayor muawi koyet, ma kanggursau reba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000419.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nInterjectionsinterjection(\nInterjections are conventionalised utterances expressing spontaneous emotions or reactions. They are extra-grammatical and can be utterances on their own or they can be apposed to a sentence. They include cries of disgust or surprise, as well as greetings and words l...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Mayor has finished eating, he's rinsing his mouth. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Mayor" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phr...
Mayor muawi koyet, ma kanggursau reba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Mayor has finished eating, he's rinsing his mouth.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Mayor\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual d...
mtob_163
{ "orig": "Dalima goes up to buy noodles but Sakina and family are still eating.", "translation": "Dalima sara mijie ba Sakina mu tok muap.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000883.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nSuka-poss Verb=neg is a dedicated negative construction that means 'to not want; to not agree'. The construction is made with the borrowed verb suka (<Indonesian suka 'to like', but not in use with that meaning in Kalamang), nominalised by inflection with a possessive suffix and followed by a n...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Dalima goes up to buy noodles but Sakina and family are still eating. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Dalima" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:...
Dalima sara mijie ba Sakina mu tok muap.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Dalima goes up to buy noodles but Sakina and family are still eating.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Dalima\" in the Kalamang...
mtob_133
{ "orig": "There are many earthworms at the banana tree.", "translation": "Im ewun me kalabet reidak.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000359.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nMany nouns that are modified with a numeral are not attested with a classifier. Examples include all nouns referring to persons (unless they are in a group and following each other, in which case the group classifier ep- is used), shells as in (), landscape features like lempuang 'island' and c...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: There are many earthworms at the banana tree. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "There" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: ...
Im ewun me kalabet reidak.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: There are many earthworms at the banana tree.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"There\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictio...
mtob_223
{ "orig": "Is there fish or not?", "translation": "Sor mambon ye saerak?", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000801.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe form salak is probably related to Indonesian sa-laksa 'ten thousand'.\nClassifiersclassifier(\nClassifiers\nllQp2cm\nclassifier & gloss & used for & also usedfor/as\nal- & clfstrip & strips or strings of (natural) material & part-of-whole\nar- & clfstem & all trees, plants and rope, as well...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Is there fish or not? To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Is" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Banda Islands Kalamang tran...
Sor mambon ye saerak?
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Is there fish or not?\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Is\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phra...
mtob_234
{ "orig": "If you tasted its whatsit, that rice...", "translation": "Nebaunara ka he narasaet, pasa opa me...", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV001000.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'You give [the food] to them, they eat. \nClausal modification\nClausal modification encompasses strategies for expressing the mood, aspect or mode of a verb or clause, or specifying the manner, temporal setting, degree or other characteristics of the state or event expressed by the predicate, ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: If you tasted its whatsit, that rice... To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "If" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: pandanus ...
Nebaunara ka he narasaet, pasa opa me...
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: If you tasted its whatsit, that rice...\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"If\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEn...
mtob_101
{ "orig": "When it is west wind season there are frogs.", "translation": "Musim kemanur me kareng se mambon.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000451.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nElevationals may be applied on both a smaller and bigger scale than the village. On a smaller scale, a speaker may use elevationals to refer to the immediate environment such as a house or a tree. In (), the speaker is looking for a knife in her house, and refers to her bedroom as being 'down'....
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: When it is west wind season there are frogs. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "When" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: ki...
Musim kemanur me kareng se mambon.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: When it is west wind season there are frogs.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"When\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictiona...
mtob_231
{ "orig": "Manado caught many groupers.", "translation": "Manado lawanramie reidak.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000728.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nTwo identificational examples are given in () and (). In (), the speaker points at a picture with three people and identifies them one by one. () is from a story about a wedding, where the names of the bride's and groom's families are called out as a way of introducing the family members to cou...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Manado caught many groupers. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Manado" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: gado-gado Kalama...
Manado lawanramie reidak.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Manado caught many groupers.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Manado\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish w...
mtob_285
{ "orig": "Bilal's father is putting his canoe out.", "translation": "Bilal esun et me di kolko.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000598.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe corpus contains ten different nouns that are followed by freestanding possessive pronouns. Six of these nouns are also found with a possessive suffix, which means they do not require a possessive pronoun construction.(These are pendapat 'opinion' (Malay loan), toman 'bag', hak 'right' (Mala...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Bilal's father is putting his canoe out. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Bilal's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Kuh...
Bilal esun et me di kolko.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Bilal's father is putting his canoe out.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Bilal's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionar...
mtob_435
{ "orig": "Faisal's mother wants to go fishing but there is no wooden canoe.", "translation": "Faisal emun bo warkin ba lepalepa saerak.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000752.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe corpus contains ten different nouns that are followed by freestanding possessive pronouns. Six of these nouns are also found with a possessive suffix, which means they do not require a possessive pronoun construction.(These are pendapat 'opinion' (Malay loan), toman 'bag', hak 'right' (Mala...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Faisal's mother wants to go fishing but there is no wooden canoe. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Faisal's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: E...
Faisal emun bo warkin ba lepalepa saerak.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Faisal's mother wants to go fishing but there is no wooden canoe.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Faisal's\" in the Kalamang-E...
mtob_429
{ "orig": "I have a shirt with a white pattern.", "translation": "Ladanan me bungaun iriskap.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000303.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe expression ma he me 'that's it; that's enough' is also a demonstrative clause. () is taken from a story where a black-furred monkey wants to turn his fur white. A cuscus puts him in a cage in the rising sea, knowing that everything looks lighter under water. When the monkey sees his legs st...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I have a shirt with a white pattern. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "I" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: I don't know ...
Ladanan me bungaun iriskap.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I have a shirt with a white pattern.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglis...
mtob_63
{ "orig": "The day before yesterday it rained.", "translation": "Keitar me kalis ur.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000504.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe 'until'-constructions with bo 'to go' illustrated in () and () are also often found with distal manner demonstrative!mannerdemonstrative mindi and another verb, marked with predicate linker =i. The order is Verb=plnk + 'like that' + 'go' (example ). The construction can be elaborated with m...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The day before yesterday it rained. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "The" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: The Netherla...
Keitar me kalis ur.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The day before yesterday it rained.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngli...
mtob_452
{ "orig": "The rainbow that comes down from there blocks the wind.", "translation": "Kalis tanggira he osangga bara urat namot.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000375.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nReduplication of nouns is used to create pluralplural!nominal nouns (§), to indicate distributivity (§), to indicate extremity (§) or to create other nouns by association or nouns expressing in-between states (§). The derivation of verbs from nouns by means of reduplication is described in §. T...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The rainbow that comes down from there blocks the wind. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "The" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or ...
Kalis tanggira he osangga bara urat namot.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The rainbow that comes down from there blocks the wind.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingua...
mtob_416
{ "orig": "He's higher than the tree.", "translation": "Ma rorat lebe.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000737.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n3sg prison.mly=obj=foc return 3sg appl=chat\n'He returns from prison, he talks [about it? to them?].' \nLastly, there is one recorded case of a noun-to-verb conversion with help of applicative ko=. The noun kanggirar 'face' changes to kokanggirar 'to face'. Though this is not a prototypical app...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: He's higher than the tree. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "He's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: jew's harp Kalamang ...
Ma rorat lebe.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: He's higher than the tree.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"He's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word ...
mtob_180
{ "orig": "Faisal's mother has many limes.", "translation": "Faisal emun mu me mun reidak.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000900.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nim panggala yapseran manadu pasiem met=a in na∼nan\nbanana cassava yam taro banana dist=foc 1pl.excl consume∼hab\n'Banana, cassava, yam, taro, banana, that's what we used to eat.' \nUnmarked conjunctive coordination without an intonation break is uncommon. This type of intonation is used cross-...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Faisal's mother has many limes. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Faisal's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Kuhl's stin...
Faisal emun mu me mun reidak.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Faisal's mother has many limes.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Faisal's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngl...
mtob_142
{ "orig": "The rain is falling, I'm collecting water.", "translation": "Kalis barara an per natada.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000976.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nfish piece-one-objqnt grandfather=ben give=imp\n'Give one piece of fish to grandfather!' \nnaman=a padanual=at rep=i ka ∅\nwho=foc pandanus=obj get= 2sg give\n'Who got pandanus [leaf] and gave it to you?' \nBenefactive =ki was also elicited in non-give constructions such as the one exemplified ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The rain is falling, I'm collecting water. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "The" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: The N...
Kalis barara an per natada.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The rain is falling, I'm collecting water.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:...
mtob_27
{ "orig": "Binkur's father's machete broke.", "translation": "Binkur esun me sadawaun se kawarcie.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000483.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nfish piece-one-objqnt grandfather=ben give=imp\n'Give one piece of fish to grandfather!' \nnaman=a padanual=at rep=i ka ∅\nwho=foc pandanus=obj get= 2sg give\n'Who got pandanus [leaf] and gave it to you?' \nBenefactive =ki was also elicited in non-give constructions such as the one exemplified ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Binkur's father's machete broke. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Binkur's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: think Kala...
Binkur esun me sadawaun se kawarcie.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Binkur's father's machete broke.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Binkur's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEng...
mtob_44
{ "orig": "The childen are picking Sakina's family's ambarella's, they are angry at them.", "translation": "Tumtum Sakina mu pasaromunat parua mu muat koewat.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000582.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nPossessive constructions express the relation between the possessor and the possessed. This chapter deals with the ways these relations are expressed in Kalamang. It also includes a discussion of associative relations, which are expressed with the enclitic =kin.\nOverview\nKalamang has two seri...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The childen are picking Sakina's family's ambarella's, they are angry at them. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "The" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dicti...
Tumtum Sakina mu pasaromunat parua mu muat koewat.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The childen are picking Sakina's family's ambarella's, they are angry at them.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Ka...
mtob_120
{ "orig": "My machete is blunt.", "translation": "An sadawan yuwa me karaonggis.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000444.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe form salak is probably related to Indonesian sa-laksa 'ten thousand'.\nClassifiersclassifier(\nClassifiers\nllQp2cm\nclassifier & gloss & used for & also usedfor/as\nal- & clfstrip & strips or strings of (natural) material & part-of-whole\nar- & clfstem & all trees, plants and rope, as well...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: My machete is blunt. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "My" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: sixty Kalamang translation: ...
An sadawan yuwa me karaonggis.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: My machete is blunt.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"My\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phras...
mtob_380
{ "orig": "(We are) burning ironwood leftovers and the flames are rising.", "translation": "Suar pespesat komarukta din se bo paras.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000129.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nReduplication of nouns is used to create pluralplural!nominal nouns (§), to indicate distributivity (§), to indicate extremity (§) or to create other nouns by association or nouns expressing in-between states (§). The derivation of verbs from nouns by means of reduplication is described in §. T...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: (We are) burning ironwood leftovers and the flames are rising. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "(We" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English w...
Suar pespesat komarukta din se bo paras.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: (We are) burning ironwood leftovers and the flames are rising.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"(We\" in the Kalamang-English b...
mtob_228
{ "orig": "Bobi's mother has many chickens, but they are still small.", "translation": "Bobi emun kokoun reidak ba tok kinkinun.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000562.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nReduplication of nouns is used to create pluralplural!nominal nouns (§), to indicate distributivity (§), to indicate extremity (§) or to create other nouns by association or nouns expressing in-between states (§). The derivation of verbs from nouns by means of reduplication is described in §. T...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Bobi's mother has many chickens, but they are still small. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Bobi's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English wo...
Bobi emun kokoun reidak ba tok kinkinun.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Bobi's mother has many chickens, but they are still small.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Bobi's\" in the Kalamang-English bi...
mtob_405
{ "orig": "There is a school of surgeonfish in the coral.", "translation": "Karariem epkona ram neko.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000446.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nReduplication of nouns is used to create pluralplural!nominal nouns (§), to indicate distributivity (§), to indicate extremity (§) or to create other nouns by association or nouns expressing in-between states (§). The derivation of verbs from nouns by means of reduplication is described in §. T...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: There is a school of surgeonfish in the coral. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "There" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase:...
Karariem epkona ram neko.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: There is a school of surgeonfish in the coral.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"There\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dicti...
mtob_183
{ "orig": "He himself tidied his house up there.", "translation": "Marain keweun osane nawanona.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000998.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n1sg house-1sg.poss big=obj make\n'I am making my big house.' \nPossessive pronouns occupy a slot between head nouns and demonstratives (more precisely, between quantifiers and attributively used verbs, but no example illustrating this is available). () illustrates a possessive pronoun preceding...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: He himself tidied his house up there. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "He" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: a big one K...
Marain keweun osane nawanona.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: He himself tidied his house up there.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"He\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngl...
mtob_365
{ "orig": "We all sit talking.", "translation": "Inaninggan melelu ewa.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000296.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n() and () illustrate the quantifying -(a)hutak seriespronoun!quantifying. In (), one speaker leaves the other during a recording session and orders her to speak further on her own. There are no others around, so the speaker is really only talking about the addressee. In (), people are discussin...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: We all sit talking. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "We" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Wednesday Kalamang translatio...
Inaninggan melelu ewa.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: We all sit talking.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"We\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase...
mtob_50
{ "orig": "That person sells garlic, not onion.", "translation": "Sontum me bawang iriskaptenara parin, bawang kerkap ge.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000055.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\npalmoil=obj little-objqnt appl=rub\n'[You] rub a little palm oil on.' \nHowever, when another modifier follows the quantifier, -i does not occur.\nmu yapseran-un nak-eir metNP toni pasor=ta eba mu nan=et\n3pl yam-3poss clffruit1-two dist.obj want fry= then 3pl consume=\n'They want to fry those ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: That person sells garlic, not onion. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "That" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: with that ...
Sontum me bawang iriskaptenara parin, bawang kerkap ge.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That person sells garlic, not onion.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEng...
mtob_238
{ "orig": "In all three baskets is fish.", "translation": "Bakul karuogan sor neko.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000205.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nReduplication of nouns is used to create pluralplural!nominal nouns (§), to indicate distributivity (§), to indicate extremity (§) or to create other nouns by association or nouns expressing in-between states (§). The derivation of verbs from nouns by means of reduplication is described in §. T...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: In all three baskets is fish. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "In" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Indonesian Kalamang...
Bakul karuogan sor neko.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: In all three baskets is fish.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"In\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word...
mtob_77
{ "orig": "Laka's wife is tearing pandanus leaf.", "translation": "Laka kieun padamualmasarut.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000829.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nOther left-headed compounds are made with the nouns pas 'woman', canam 'man', emun 'mother' and tumun 'child'. The first two, exemplified in (), specify the gendergender of the head noun, and the second two specify relative size, with emun for big things and tumun for small things. This is alwa...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Laka's wife is tearing pandanus leaf. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Laka's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: it's cl...
Laka kieun padamualmasarut.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Laka's wife is tearing pandanus leaf.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Laka's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\n...
mtob_354
{ "orig": "Man from Kei, man from Java, man from Gorom.", "translation": "Keica, Jawaca, Walakaca", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000099.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'I slacken mine, as for yours, you drag it over there, then you slacken!' \nPossessive constructions and possessive morphology is further described in Chapter .\nPronominal addressperson address\nPronominal address with the second-person singular ka and plural ki is a common form of address in ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Man from Kei, man from Java, man from Gorom. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Man" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: old...
Keica, Jawaca, Walakaca
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Man from Kei, man from Java, man from Gorom.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Man\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionar...
mtob_290
{ "orig": "Tomorrow we go to Antalisa to marry Anafia and spouse.", "translation": "Kasur in bo Tamisengga nahalarkin Anafia mu.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000474.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nStrangers or foreigners may be both referred to and addressed with polite Kalamang kinship terms, preferably esnem or esa for a man, and emnem or ema for a women. However, terms of address from other (Indonesian) languages are also commonly used. A visiting man from Java is referred to and addr...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Tomorrow we go to Antalisa to marry Anafia and spouse. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Tomorrow" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word...
Kasur in bo Tamisengga nahalarkin Anafia mu.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Tomorrow we go to Antalisa to marry Anafia and spouse.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Tomorrow\" in the Kalamang-English bili...
mtob_26
{ "orig": "Sara is affected by kaman-disease, her lips are sore.", "translation": "Sara kaman mat paruo bolun patiwatin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000385.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'You give [the food] to them, they eat. \nClausal modification\nClausal modification encompasses strategies for expressing the mood, aspect or mode of a verb or clause, or specifying the manner, temporal setting, degree or other characteristics of the state or event expressed by the predicate, ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Sara is affected by kaman-disease, her lips are sore. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Sara" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or p...
Sara kaman mat paruo bolun patiwatin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Sara is affected by kaman-disease, her lips are sore.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Sara\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual...
mtob_162
{ "orig": "Dalima and Salima were fighting and Nazua blocked them.", "translation": "Dalimabon Salimabon naras Nazua namot.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000944.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'Touching each other's bottoms.' \nNau= is in a few cases used in a distributivedistributive sense. In (), it is prefixed to gang 'to hang' to talk about items hanging in a tree. It is distributive in the sense that the items hang in different places. In (), it is used to describe a naked man. ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Dalima and Salima were fighting and Nazua blocked them. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Dalima" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word ...
Dalimabon Salimabon naras Nazua namot.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Dalima and Salima were fighting and Nazua blocked them.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Dalima\" in the Kalamang-English bilin...
mtob_397
{ "orig": "Granny Ruslan's grandmother and family planted maize in their garden.", "translation": "Nina Ruslan taraun mu keteles kowaya amdirunggo.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000679.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe most common possessive construction is created by means of the possessive suffix. I refer to this as the basic possessive construction. This construction can be used for both animate and inanimate possessors and possessed. See () with tumun 'child' and () with dowi 'seed' as the possessed, ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Granny Ruslan's grandmother and family planted maize in their garden. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Granny" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:...
Nina Ruslan taraun mu keteles kowaya amdirunggo.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Granny Ruslan's grandmother and family planted maize in their garden.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Granny\" in the Kalamang...
mtob_218
{ "orig": "The lizard ate a chicken.", "translation": "Iwora ma me kokowara na.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000308.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nWhile there is one noun that cannot be the object of a verb but instead must be incorporated, don 'thing', there are also restrictions on which elements can be incorporated. Pronouns, demonstrativedemonstratives and modified nouns cannot be incorporated. As for the verbs, intransitive verbs can...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The lizard ate a chicken. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "The" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: The Netherlands Kalama...
Iwora ma me kokowara na.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The lizard ate a chicken.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or...
mtob_226
{ "orig": "There are many leaves at the side of our house, avocado leaves.", "translation": "Kewe mul inggon me lolok reidak, afokat olun.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000764.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nMany nouns that are modified with a numeral are not attested with a classifier. Examples include all nouns referring to persons (unless they are in a group and following each other, in which case the group classifier ep- is used), shells as in (), landscape features like lempuang 'island' and c...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: There are many leaves at the side of our house, avocado leaves. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "There" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: Englis...
Kewe mul inggon me lolok reidak, afokat olun.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: There are many leaves at the side of our house, avocado leaves.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"There\" in the Kalamang-Englis...
mtob_61
{ "orig": "Its width is maybe five metres.", "translation": "Luasun me mungkin meter apkon.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000622.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n[Far distal owa]Directing to owane fdist\nOther\nFar distal locative owatko 'over there', while usually used for invisible locationlocations, can also be used when the location is far away from both the speaker and the addressee, and when the speaker wants to create a mental distance to the ref...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Its width is maybe five metres. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Its" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: water between ro...
Luasun me mungkin meter apkon.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Its width is maybe five metres.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Its\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish w...
mtob_239
{ "orig": "Is that your own canoe?", "translation": "Et me karainkin ye?", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000437.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'I slacken mine, as for yours, you drag it over there, then you slacken!' \nPossessive constructions and possessive morphology is further described in Chapter .\nPronominal addressperson address\nPronominal address with the second-person singular ka and plural ki is a common form of address in ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Is that your own canoe? To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Is" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Banda Islands Kalamang tr...
Et me karainkin ye?
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Is that your own canoe?\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Is\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or ph...
mtob_454
{ "orig": "That person has a wide anus.", "translation": "Som yumene kahamanpos luas.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000346.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nOther examples of spatial association are the names of certain species, especially fish species, as shown in (). The wienar 'parrotfish' is contrasted with other wienar species, such as wienar saruam 'longnose parrotfish'. It can also be used in a more general sense to group for example all fis...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: That person has a wide anus. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "That" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: with that Kalamang...
Som yumene kahamanpos luas.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That person has a wide anus.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish wor...
mtob_462
{ "orig": "That person is suffering from scabies.", "translation": "Som yume kapis mat na.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000435.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nStrangers or foreigners may be both referred to and addressed with polite Kalamang kinship terms, preferably esnem or esa for a man, and emnem or ema for a women. However, terms of address from other (Indonesian) languages are also commonly used. A visiting man from Java is referred to and addr...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: That person is suffering from scabies. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "That" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: with tha...
Som yume kapis mat na.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That person is suffering from scabies.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nE...