Hakka eeso et? What is this?
Et radao It is a radio
Et televiisi It is a television
Et auto It is a car
Et vussi It is a buss
Et jóna It is a house
Et viimonta It is a store
Et uteli It is a street
Et kommi It is a man
Et liivu It is a woman
Et tammal takama It is a small boy
Et laitalavassat messva It is a beutiful girl
Hakka eesto et? What is that?
Hummanta eeso et? What is this like?
Hummanta takama et? What is the boy like?
Et tammal He is small
Kommi aigó The man is big
Hummanta messva et? What is the girl like?
Et onnel She is young
Liivu väntó The woman is old
Hummanta jóna et? What is the house like?
Et vänät It is old
Auto kiitó The car is new
Ynos myhat et? Is it good?
Kaas Yes
Ynos eeso myhat radao et? Is ths a good radio?
Ele, elet. Et karhen No, it isn't. It is a bad one
If you look carefully over these few phrases you may notice a few odd things.
1. The word "et" as explained in the previous lesson, has many meanings. In this lesson it is used for these phrases: "It is", "She is", and "He is". You can now infer that the language does not distinguish between "he" and "she". It is a genderless language.
2. You may notice that the word "et" changes locations in the sentance sometimes. For now all you should know is that if the sentance is not a question, "et" goes where you would normaly put the word "is" in english. If "et" is used to include the pronouns "it", "she", or "he", then it normally goes at the beginning of a sentance. If on the other hand, the sentance is a question sentance, then "et" must go at the end of the sentance. You will learn why later.
3. Probably the biggest surprise to you may be that sometimes "et" disapears completely in several sentances. The reason lies in the fact that, when not using the pronouns "it", "she", and "he" for the subject of the sentance, the language requires the descriptive adjective at the end of the sentance to recieve an ending. It may look weird to you, but try to think of it like this:
Notice these two sentances:
"The car is red" and "The car reds"
See how the second sentance has lost the need to put "is" in, because the adjective is describing the action. The car is redding. It looks funny but, that's how Voidä prefers to use adjectives. When the subject of the sentance is a regular noun, not a pronoun, the ending "ó" is added to the adjective and "et" is dropped. The stem of the adjective may also change with the addition of the "ó", so from now on, both forms will be listed in the dicitonary. You will understand how the stem of the word changes later.
4. You will notice that some question sentances have the word "ynos" at the beginning. This word cannot be translated into english. When in a question sentance, you don't use the regular question words like, "What", or "How", or "When", the language requires you to place a marker at the beginning of the sentance to show that that sentance is in fact,. a question sentance. That is the function of the word "ynos". If the sentance in english starts with words like "is?" or "are?" then it's Voidä equivalent will use "Ynos".
5. There are no articles: No "the" or "a" or "an"
6 Hummanta means "What kind of" or "how is this like?"". It asks for a description of somthing.
7. Ele means "no" and elet means it isn't
Vocabulary
This is a list of the vocabulary you have learned so far from lessons 2 and 3. Both forms of the adjectives will be listed
auto - car
vussi - buss
uteli - street
laitalavassat, latalavasstó - beautiful
viimonta - store
*kuva - picture
kommi - man
Hakka? - what?
liivu - woman
et - is, it is, she is, he is
tammal, tamaló - small
takama - boy
radao - radio
jóna - house
televiisi - television
eesto - that
messva - girl
eeso - this
ele - no
elet - it isn't
karhen, karhó - bad
myhat, myhtó - good
aigo, aigó - big
ynos - question word
hummanta - what.....like?
onnel, oneló - young
kiit, kiitó - new
vänät, väntó - old
Vaahi - hello
Hóretii - goodbye
eevo - I am
uutise - to go
Practice problems:
Translate into Voidä:
2. This is a new car.
3. That is an old man
4. Hello, my name is John
5.. Goodbye!