id stringlengths 6 8 | orig_row dict | in_context_examples dict | prompt_token_count int64 2.05k 3.22k | prompt stringlengths 8.44k 12.8k | response stringlengths 10 62 | messages listlengths 2 2 |
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mtob_12 | {
"orig": "He's wearing his new shirt.",
"translation": "Ma ladanun giartenara sabur.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000226.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nNominal possessors (§) precede the possessed noun. () shows a nominal possessor preceding the head noun ming 'oil'.\nka nene ming-un yuwa=at kuet=et\n2sg grandmother oil-3poss prox=obj bring=\n'You bring this oil of granny's.' \nQuantifiersnumeralquantifier(\nQuantifiers (introduced in §) indic... | 2,416 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: He's wearing his new shirt.
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 ladanun giartenara sabur. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: He's wearing his new shirt.\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_189 | {
"orig": "Abas's mother's family are making a garden on the cape with grass.",
"translation": "Abas emun mu kaman karimunggoa amdirat paruo.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000384.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... | 2,781 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Abas's mother's family are making a garden on the cape with grass.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Abas's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
En... | Abas emun mu kaman karimunggoa amdirat paruo. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Abas's mother's family are making a garden on the cape with grass.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Abas's\" in the Kalamang-En... |
mtob_83 | {
"orig": "Nabil's mother and friends buy beans to cook porridge to give to the kids.",
"translation": "Nabil emun mu kawuokjie bubirkuarte di tumtumgin.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000494.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\n1pl.excl prox=obj make=\n'We make this.' \ndon-an meNP=at kuru eti\nthing-1sg.poss dist.obj bring return.imp\n'Bring back my stuff!' \nIf the rightmost position in the NP is occupied by a quantifier, =at attaches to the last word before the quantifier. The latter receives its own object marking... | 2,930 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Nabil's mother and friends buy beans to cook porridge to give to the kids.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Nabil's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dicti... | Nabil emun mu kawuokjie bubirkuarte di tumtumgin. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Nabil's mother and friends buy beans to cook porridge to give to the kids.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Nabil's\" in the Ka... |
mtob_381 | {
"orig": "That mango is still sour.",
"translation": "Wie yume tok mor.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000878.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, ... | 2,432 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: That mango is still sour.
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 tr... | Wie yume tok mor. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That mango is still sour.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word o... |
mtob_6 | {
"orig": "We break off the tips.",
"translation": "Pi timunat kowarman.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000915.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 ... | 2,483 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: We break off the tips.
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 transla... | Pi timunat kowarman. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: We break off the tips.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"We\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phr... |
mtob_467 | {
"orig": "That old man isn't strong anymore, he's old.",
"translation": "Esnem me ma he kuatnin, ma he tua.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000186.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nThe expression ma he me 'that's it', containing distal me, is used to indicate the end of a paragraph, usually one that has a summary of different things or actions, such as the list of ingredients in (). It can also close off an entire story, in combination with se koyet 'finished' (as in , se... | 2,663 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: That old man isn't strong anymore, he's old.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "That" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: wi... | Esnem me ma he kuatnin, ma he tua. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That old man isn't strong anymore, he's old.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictiona... |
mtob_346 | {
"orig": "This day, it was already late afternoon but the lamps weren't lighted.",
"translation": "Yuol wa me go he girgir lampur tok yuolnin.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000232.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\n'[I] haven't yet been to grandfather Manggan's either.' \npengalaman kon yume sampi in=konggo=nin\nexperience one dist until 1pl.excl=an.loc=neg\n'That experience hasn't reached us yet.' \nwise=kap=nin\nlongtimeago=sim=neg\n'It's not like it used to be.' \nmindi=nin\nlikethat=neg\n'It's not lik... | 2,708 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: This day, it was already late afternoon but the lamps weren't lighted.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "This" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
... | Yuol wa me go he girgir lampur tok yuolnin. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: This day, it was already late afternoon but the lamps weren't lighted.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"This\" in the Kalamang-... |
mtob_128 | {
"orig": "Desi is diligent.",
"translation": "Desi me mososor.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000880.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... | 2,492 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Desi is diligent.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Desi" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: torresian imperial pidgeon
Ka... | Desi me mososor. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Desi is diligent.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Desi\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase... |
mtob_192 | {
"orig": "They are organising Hawa and Darfin's third day, (they are) extending a mat.",
"translation": "Mu Hawabon Darfinbon yuol karuonat paruo elat parapara.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000165.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'.... | 2,848 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: They are organising Hawa and Darfin's third day, (they are) extending a mat.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "They" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictio... | Mu Hawabon Darfinbon yuol karuonat paruo elat parapara. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: They are organising Hawa and Darfin's third day, (they are) extending a mat.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"They\" in the Kal... |
mtob_10 | {
"orig": "Sundus' wife has many lice.",
"translation": "Sundus kieun me mun reidak.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000901.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... | 2,481 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Sundus' wife has many lice.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Sundus'" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: Sunday
Kalamang ... | Sundus kieun 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: Sundus' wife has many lice.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Sundus'\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish w... |
mtob_146 | {
"orig": "Is your back fine again? Oh, of course it is.",
"translation": "Suolca he bes? O bes mera.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000852.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nThis is not a well-established construction, and the three other reflexive corpus examples rely on Malay loans. The Malay reflexive pronoun diri 'self' is used in those constructions, which are combined with an AustronesianAustronesian!loan loan verb natobat 'repent' (example ) or Malay loan ve... | 2,382 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Is your back fine again? Oh, of course it is.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Is" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: Ban... | Suolca he bes? O bes mera. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Is your back fine again? Oh, of course it is.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Is\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionar... |
mtob_73 | {
"orig": "Mustafa's father and family want to go to the garden, they are still waiting for Sakina.",
"translation": "Mustafa esun mu amdirga botkin mu tok Sakinat nawanggar.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000993.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... | 2,827 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Mustafa's father and family want to go to the garden, they are still waiting for Sakina.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Mustafa's" in the Kalamang-English... | Mustafa esun mu amdirga botkin mu tok Sakinat nawanggar. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Mustafa's father and family want to go to the garden, they are still waiting for Sakina.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Musta... |
mtob_413 | {
"orig": "At Toran there are many orchids.",
"translation": "Toran me kamaser reidak.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000388.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'.... | 2,461 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: At Toran there are many orchids.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "At" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: young coconut
Ka... | Toran me kamaser reidak. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: At Toran there are many orchids.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"At\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish w... |
mtob_404 | {
"orig": "It's raining, so the street is slippery.",
"translation": "Kalis ourten me uriap licing.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000756.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. ... | 2,506 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: It's raining, so the street is slippery.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "It's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: that's... | Kalis ourten me uriap licing. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: It's raining, so the street is slippery.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"It's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\... |
mtob_174 | {
"orig": "Nabil's father went fishing for a long time but didn't catch anything.",
"translation": "Nabil esun bo wari wari ba kotipol.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000667.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nNegative clauses differ from affirmatives in that they do not allow the same verbal marking. The enclitic =kin (§), used in affirmative clauses for the expression of volition and imminent situations, is incompatible with negator =nin. This is illustrated in example (). The range of semantic dis... | 2,719 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Nabil's father went fishing for a long time but didn't catch anything.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Nabil's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionar... | Nabil esun bo wari wari ba kotipol. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Nabil's father went fishing for a long time but didn't catch anything.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Nabil's\" in the Kalama... |
mtob_185 | {
"orig": "Of rabbitfish, there are many in the soft coral.",
"translation": "Malkesi me ram nerunggo reidak.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000795.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... | 2,733 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Of rabbitfish, there are many in the soft coral.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Of" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: ... | Malkesi me ram nerunggo reidak. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Of rabbitfish, there are many in the soft coral.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Of\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictio... |
mtob_206 | {
"orig": "We like to look at the welcome gate from the dock.",
"translation": "Pi los kerungga gapurat komet me rasa.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000769.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nHowever, there is a dependent verb kuru 'bring' which occurs as the first verb in complex predicates expressing transfer and motion. Kuru 'bring' cannot be used independently, and never carries any morphology. The most common construction is with a directional verb (§), illustrated in (), or an... | 2,714 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: We like to look at the welcome gate from the dock.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "We" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase... | Pi los kerungga gapurat komet me rasa. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: We like to look at the welcome gate from the dock.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"We\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dict... |
mtob_295 | {
"orig": "Fit cooked rice (but) it's undercooked.",
"translation": "Fit pasat kuarta kangguar.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000417.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nThe middle child or grandchild, as well as the middle aunt or uncle, can be designated as tumun/tara-/wowa/mama raor, with raor meaning 'middle'.\nKinship terms: affines\nAffines are relatives by marriage. The terms for 'husband' and 'wife' are inalienable. 'Husband' has the same root for first... | 2,396 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Fit cooked rice (but) it's undercooked.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Fit" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: jackfrui... | Fit pasat kuarta kangguar. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Fit cooked rice (but) it's undercooked.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Fit\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nE... |
mtob_157 | {
"orig": "That dog is barking at a cat.",
"translation": "Bal imene sikanara koboukbouk.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000089.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nSound wave and spectrogram of /ˈema/ and /aŋˈgon/ fused into [emaŋˈgon]\nWhen the words are emphasised they are separated by a glottal stopglottal stop: [ˈemaʔaŋˈgon]. The sound wave and spectrogram in Figure visualise this.\nSound wave and spectrogram of /ˈema/ and /aŋˈgon/ separated by a glot... | 2,579 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: That dog is barking at a cat.
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
Kalaman... | Bal imene sikanara koboukbouk. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That dog is barking at a cat.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish wo... |
mtob_225 | {
"orig": "Ruslan's mother is heating banana leaves, she wants to make a \"lamet\".",
"translation": "Ruslan emuna imolat balare lamerat paruotkin.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000043.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nAnti-topics (AT) are constituents at the right edge of the clause, which serve to specify or reactivate a topic lambrecht1981. In (), the subject of the clause, tumun opa me 'that child', is specified in the postposed NP. It is also a reactivation of the topic, which had been mentioned a few tu... | 2,767 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Ruslan's mother is heating banana leaves, she wants to make a "lamet".
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Ruslan's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictiona... | Ruslan emuna imolat balare lamerat paruotkin. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Ruslan's mother is heating banana leaves, she wants to make a \"lamet\".\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Ruslan's\" in the Kal... |
mtob_38 | {
"orig": "There was an earthquake, I felt it.",
"translation": "Leng dekta an narasa.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000748.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nAnti-topics (AT) are constituents at the right edge of the clause, which serve to specify or reactivate a topic lambrecht1981. In (), the subject of the clause, tumun opa me 'that child', is specified in the postposed NP. It is also a reactivation of the topic, which had been mentioned a few tu... | 2,467 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: There was an earthquake, I felt it.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "There" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: up there
K... | Leng dekta an narasa. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: There was an earthquake, I felt it.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"There\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEng... |
mtob_268 | {
"orig": "We sat chatting, Bobi's mother said something wrong, we laughed at her.",
"translation": "In melalu garungda, Bobi emun salai garungda, in mat komayeki.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000614.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nA subtype of content questions are conventionalised questionsconventionalised question Kalamang speakers use to greet each other. Upon meeting each other outside or passing by someone's house, one asks either 'what are you doing' (example ) or 'where are you going/where are you coming from?' (e... | 2,748 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: We sat chatting, Bobi's mother said something wrong, we laughed at her.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "We" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
E... | In melalu garungda, Bobi emun salai garungda, in mat komayeki. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: We sat chatting, Bobi's mother said something wrong, we laughed at her.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"We\" in the Kalamang-E... |
mtob_352 | {
"orig": "The sugar is finished, what do we eat now.",
"translation": "Don iriskap koyet neba mindi muap.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000138.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nA subtype of content questions are conventionalised questionsconventionalised question Kalamang speakers use to greet each other. Upon meeting each other outside or passing by someone's house, one asks either 'what are you doing' (example ) or 'where are you going/where are you coming from?' (e... | 2,720 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: The sugar is finished, what do we eat now.
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... | Don iriskap koyet neba mindi muap. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The sugar is finished, what do we eat now.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:... |
mtob_299 | {
"orig": "Lamani's father is marking wood.",
"translation": "Lamani esun rorara kasep.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000470.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nThe most common construction is with possessive suffixes. Some minor patterns for the use of possessive constructions with just a freestanding possessive pronoun or a combination of suffix and pronoun can be identified, but it is difficult to define the conditions that govern the choice between... | 2,310 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Lamani's father is marking wood.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Lamani's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: speak Kala... | Lamani esun rorara kasep. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Lamani's father is marking wood.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Lamani's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEng... |
mtob_53 | {
"orig": "There are no lontar palms here.",
"translation": "Naiar me watko saerak.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000925.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... | 2,471 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: There are no lontar palms here.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "There" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: up there
Kalam... | Naiar me watko saerak. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: There are no lontar palms here.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"There\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish... |
mtob_113 | {
"orig": "People went to Fakfak to sell durian.",
"translation": "Sontom Pakpaka mahara duran parin.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000154.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... | 2,486 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: People went to Fakfak to sell durian.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "People" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: many hu... | Sontom Pakpaka mahara duran parin. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: People went to Fakfak to sell durian.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"People\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\n... |
mtob_219 | {
"orig": "Tol's mother and family went to the mainland first, we went last.",
"translation": "Tol emun mu borani distrika mara eba in epka mara.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000176.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nThe second strategy, with the recipient marked with animate locative =konggo or lative =kongga, can be used with (at least) parin 'to sell', jie 'to buy', gerket 'to ask' and toni 'to say'. () shows an object marker on the theme and a locative marker on the pronoun. (), on the other hand, has t... | 2,948 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Tol's mother and family went to the mainland first, we went last.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Tol's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
Engl... | Tol emun mu borani distrika mara eba in epka mara. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Tol's mother and family went to the mainland first, we went last.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Tol's\" in the Kalamang-Engl... |
mtob_187 | {
"orig": "They two are diving for red cluster whip.",
"translation": "Mier waranggeit koar teba.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000572.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... | 2,628 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: They two are diving for red cluster whip.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "They" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: The N... | Mier waranggeit koar teba. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: They two are diving for red cluster whip.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"They\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:... |
mtob_29 | {
"orig": "Who's that? Oh, just Kalamang and family.",
"translation": "Naman ba me? Geo, Kalamang mu ba.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000940.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nIt is tempting to analyse the double-marked nouns as receiving extra prominence – for example, to contrast the referent with another referent – but there is no evidence for this. In (), the speaker picks up a picture and identifies who is in it. It is true that the referent is placed in focusfo... | 2,418 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Who's that? Oh, just Kalamang and family.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Who's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: Kuhl... | Naman ba me? Geo, Kalamang mu ba. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Who's that? Oh, just Kalamang and family.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Who's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary... |
mtob_449 | {
"orig": "Its leaves are like chili's leaves.",
"translation": "Ya olun lenggalenggainggap.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000432.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... | 2,448 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Its leaves are like chili's leaves.
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 betwee... | Ya olun lenggalenggainggap. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Its leaves are like chili's leaves.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Its\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngli... |
mtob_399 | {
"orig": "Nyong's father hit and wounded his toenail.",
"translation": "Nyong esun kor tanggalip dukta patin.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000652.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... | 2,474 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Nyong's father hit and wounded his toenail.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Nyong's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: ... | Nyong esun kor tanggalip dukta patin. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Nyong's father hit and wounded his toenail.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Nyong's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictio... |
mtob_130 | {
"orig": "sixteen",
"translation": "putkon ba raman",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000039.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nDual number is created by suffixing -ier to the basic pronouns. This might be a metathesismetathesis of eir 'two'. Dual forms are not obligatory, but are used in the great majority of the cases where a pronoun refers to two referents. When there are more than two referents, the speaker can choo... | 2,239 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: sixteen
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "sixteen" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: fifteen
Kalamang translation: putkon... | putkon ba raman | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: sixteen\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"sixteen\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: fifte... |
mtob_222 | {
"orig": "I want to go fishing at the dock.",
"translation": "An bo jambatanggoa warkin.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000015.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nHowever, there is a dependent verb kuru 'bring' which occurs as the first verb in complex predicates expressing transfer and motion. Kuru 'bring' cannot be used independently, and never carries any morphology. The most common construction is with a directional verb (§), illustrated in (), or an... | 2,580 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: I want to go fishing at the dock.
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
Kal... | An bo jambatanggoa warkin. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I want to go fishing at the dock.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish w... |
mtob_110 | {
"orig": "His sleeping area is dirty.",
"translation": "Minggalorun me kotur.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000869.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... | 2,476 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: His sleeping area is dirty.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "His" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: sejenis kuskus
Kalam... | Minggalorun me kotur. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: His sleeping area is dirty.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"His\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word ... |
mtob_433 | {
"orig": "When the tide is very low Tamandi's mother and friends go fishing for small fish with poisonous root.",
"translation": "Warkin emun kararak Tamandi emun mu birbir tup.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000071.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nTamangga 'to/from where' and tamatko 'where' are formed with tama plus the lative or the locative enclitic, respectively (for the morphosyntax see §). They have verbal properties. Tamangga, like other words carrying lative =ka, is primarily used in predicate!complex complex predicates (see Chap... | 3,218 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: When the tide is very low Tamandi's mother and friends go fishing for small fish with poisonous root.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "When" in the Kalamang... | Warkin emun kararak Tamandi emun mu birbir tup. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: When the tide is very low Tamandi's mother and friends go fishing for small fish with poisonous root.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entri... |
mtob_235 | {
"orig": "Yes, hit him again.",
"translation": "Esie, mat ture weinun.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000185.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nThe expression ma he me 'that's it', containing distal me, is used to indicate the end of a paragraph, usually one that has a summary of different things or actions, such as the list of ingredients in (). It can also close off an entire story, in combination with se koyet 'finished' (as in , se... | 2,459 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Yes, hit him again.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Yes" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: stiff muscles
Kalamang trans... | Esie, mat ture weinun. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Yes, hit him again.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Yes\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phras... |
mtob_340 | {
"orig": "Keep it still already!",
"translation": "Mat malelinde geǃ",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000792.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... | 2,345 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Keep it still already!
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Keep" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: deep sea
Kalamang transl... | Mat malelinde geǃ | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Keep it still already!\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Keep\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or p... |
mtob_60 | {
"orig": "Rustam's chicken is dead.",
"translation": "Rustam kokoun nalat.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000934.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, ... | 2,439 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Rustam's chicken is dead.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Rustam's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: must
Kalamang tra... | Rustam kokoun nalat. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Rustam's chicken is dead.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Rustam's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish wo... |
mtob_129 | {
"orig": "[They] didn't call you.",
"translation": "Kara gonggungnin.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000002.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nA subtype of content questions are conventionalised questionsconventionalised question Kalamang speakers use to greet each other. Upon meeting each other outside or passing by someone's house, one asks either 'what are you doing' (example ) or 'where are you going/where are you coming from?' (e... | 2,440 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: [They] didn't call you.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "[They]" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: hey-ho
Kalamang trans... | Kara gonggungnin. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: [They] didn't call you.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"[They]\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word o... |
mtob_273 | {
"orig": "A canoe came from Fakfak with many people.",
"translation": "Et kon Pakpaka mahara, sontum imbuang.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000290.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... | 2,389 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: A canoe came from Fakfak with many people.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "A" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: Antalis... | Et kon Pakpaka mahara, sontum imbuang. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: A canoe came from Fakfak with many people.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"A\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\n... |
mtob_76 | {
"orig": "Suci carries Inaya.",
"translation": "Suci Inayat nawas.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000995.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nHowever, there is a dependent verb kuru 'bring' which occurs as the first verb in complex predicates expressing transfer and motion. Kuru 'bring' cannot be used independently, and never carries any morphology. The most common construction is with a directional verb (§), illustrated in (), or an... | 2,510 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Suci carries Inaya.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Suci" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: Sunday
Kalamang translation... | Suci Inayat nawas. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Suci carries Inaya.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Suci\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phra... |
mtob_391 | {
"orig": "They want to go diving but they don't have a diving mask.",
"translation": "Mu bo arkin ba ginana saerak.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000231.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'.... | 2,730 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: They want to go diving but they don't have a diving mask.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "They" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word ... | Mu bo arkin ba ginana saerak. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: They want to go diving but they don't have a diving mask.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"They\" in the Kalamang-English bilin... |
mtob_367 | {
"orig": "Come, eat.",
"translation": "Mei o, bolkoyalkin.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000078.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nHowever, there is a dependent verb kuru 'bring' which occurs as the first verb in complex predicates expressing transfer and motion. Kuru 'bring' cannot be used independently, and never carries any morphology. The most common construction is with a directional verb (§), illustrated in (), or an... | 2,381 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Come, eat.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Come" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: come
Kalamang translation: luk; mei;... | Mei o, bolkoyalkin. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Come, eat.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Come\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: come\... |
mtob_220 | {
"orig": "Grandfather Nostal splits planks, La Deka carries them on his shoulder.",
"translation": "Tata Nostala pawanat parair La Deka bitko.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000073.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... | 2,841 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Grandfather Nostal splits planks, La Deka carries them on his shoulder.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Grandfather" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dict... | Tata Nostala pawanat parair La Deka bitko. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Grandfather Nostal splits planks, La Deka carries them on his shoulder.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Grandfather\" in the K... |
mtob_221 | {
"orig": "They come back from the mountain, they are hungry.",
"translation": "Mu kolaka bore yecie mu he muisese.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000891.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... | 2,633 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: They come back from the mountain, they are hungry.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "They" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phra... | Mu kolaka bore yecie mu he muisese. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: They come back from the mountain, they are hungry.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"They\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual di... |
mtob_305 | {
"orig": "Go burn that lamp in a can!",
"translation": "Lampur belek met komelekte!",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000617.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... | 2,603 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Go burn that lamp in a can!
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Go" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: Goromese
Kalamang tra... | Lampur belek met komelekte! | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Go burn that lamp in a can!\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Go\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word o... |
mtob_419 | {
"orig": "Go seawards, seawards, seawards, there's tuna playing in the sea.",
"translation": "Ak, ak, ak, suagi wilao laur.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000006.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nHowever, there is a dependent verb kuru 'bring' which occurs as the first verb in complex predicates expressing transfer and motion. Kuru 'bring' cannot be used independently, and never carries any morphology. The most common construction is with a directional verb (§), illustrated in (), or an... | 2,751 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Go seawards, seawards, seawards, there's tuna playing in the sea.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Go" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English... | Ak, ak, ak, suagi wilao laur. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Go seawards, seawards, seawards, there's tuna playing in the sea.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Go\" in the Kalamang-English... |
mtob_74 | {
"orig": "An ibis is watching fish standing on a stone.",
"translation": "Kurua kona yarkeitko mambara sorara jaga.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000707.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... | 2,744 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: An ibis is watching fish standing on a stone.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "An" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: Ant... | Kurua kona yarkeitko mambara sorara jaga. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: An ibis is watching fish standing on a stone.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"An\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionar... |
mtob_158 | {
"orig": "Bobi's mother went fishing, her fishing line was entangled.",
"translation": "Bobi emun bo warta nikaun kolkol.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000599.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. ... | 2,660 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Bobi's mother went fishing, her fishing line was entangled.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Bobi's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English w... | Bobi emun bo warta nikaun kolkol. | [
{
"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 went fishing, her fishing line was entangled.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Bobi's\" in the Kalamang-English b... |
mtob_388 | {
"orig": "Pat's mother cut the umbilical cord.",
"translation": "Pat emun limpotma reba.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000758.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nAnti-topics (AT) are constituents at the right edge of the clause, which serve to specify or reactivate a topic lambrecht1981. In (), the subject of the clause, tumun opa me 'that child', is specified in the postposed NP. It is also a reactivation of the topic, which had been mentioned a few tu... | 2,476 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Pat's mother cut the umbilical cord.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Pat's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: that's it... | Pat emun limpotma reba. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Pat's mother cut the umbilical cord.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Pat's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEn... |
mtob_102 | {
"orig": "The giant trevally is big.",
"translation": "Imanana ma me temun.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000289.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... | 2,494 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: The giant trevally is big.
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
Kalam... | Imanana ma me temun. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The giant trevally is big.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word o... |
mtob_9 | {
"orig": "He wants to go to school but he doesn't have a book.",
"translation": "Ma sekolain ba buk saerak.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000090.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nNon-verbal clauses are clauses whose predicatepredicate belongs to a class other than verb, and which can function as the head of a NP. This kind of clause is rather common in Kalamang, as any property or argument can act as a predicate with no overt copulacopula* needed. This section is dedica... | 2,806 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: He wants to go to school but he doesn't have a book.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "He" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phra... | Ma sekolain ba buk saerak. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: He wants to go to school but he doesn't have a book.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"He\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual di... |
mtob_236 | {
"orig": "We go pick shells.",
"translation": "In bo tabuonkajie reba.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000293.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... | 2,416 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: We go pick shells.
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 translation... | In bo tabuonkajie reba. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: We go pick shells.\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_194 | {
"orig": "Nabil's mother has sore lips.",
"translation": "Nabil emun bolkulun lalang.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000079.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. ... | 2,428 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Nabil's mother has sore lips.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Nabil's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: Kuhl's stingra... | Nabil emun bolkulun lalang. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Nabil's mother has sore lips.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Nabil's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish... |
mtob_455 | {
"orig": "Rajiba's father and family go to Karas Darat to harvest nutmeg.",
"translation": "Rajiba esun mu bo Lenggongga sayangsara.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000750.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'.... | 2,689 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Rajiba's father and family go to Karas Darat to harvest nutmeg.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Rajiba's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
Eng... | Rajiba esun mu bo Lenggongga sayangsara. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Rajiba's father and family go to Karas Darat to harvest nutmeg.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Rajiba's\" in the Kalamang-Eng... |
mtob_20 | {
"orig": "Bakri's mother is sieving sago, she wants to make sago.",
"translation": "Bakri emun muapsabur kurera reba minggi sanggeran paruotkin.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000705.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... | 2,732 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Bakri's mother is sieving sago, she wants to make sago.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Bakri's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word... | Bakri emun muapsabur kurera reba minggi sanggeran paruotkin. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Bakri's mother is sieving sago, she wants to make sago.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Bakri's\" in the Kalamang-English bili... |
mtob_1 | {
"orig": "There are many lusi muaun trees at Sar, but they are dry.",
"translation": "Lusi muaun me Sarko reidak ma ma he sasa.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000776.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... | 2,686 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: There are many lusi muaun trees at Sar, but they are dry.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "There" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word... | Lusi muaun me Sarko reidak ma ma he sasa. | [
{
"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 lusi muaun trees at Sar, but they are dry.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"There\" in the Kalamang-English bili... |
mtob_324 | {
"orig": "My aunt went to Gorom.",
"translation": "Ema anggon cauna Walakangga bara.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000168.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\n3sg 1pl.excl=an.loc stay 3sg village-3poss=lat go=neg\n'He stays with us, he doesn't go back to his village any more.' \nLike locative =ko, lative =ka occurs on demonstratives and the question word tama, forming the fused forms wangga 'to/from here' (example ), mengga 'to/from there' (example )... | 2,333 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: My aunt went to Gorom.
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... | Ema anggon cauna Walakangga bara. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: My aunt went to Gorom.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"My\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phr... |
mtob_364 | {
"orig": "(If) I look at food I already feel full.",
"translation": "An muawat komera an se narasa kabor.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000328.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nNegative clauses differ from affirmatives in that they do not allow the same verbal marking. The enclitic =kin (§), used in affirmative clauses for the expression of volition and imminent situations, is incompatible with negator =nin. This is illustrated in example (). The range of semantic dis... | 2,578 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: (If) I look at food I already feel full.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "(If)" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: (at) n... | An muawat komera an se narasa kabor. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: (If) I look at food I already feel full.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"(If)\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\... |
mtob_72 | {
"orig": "That snake is slithering up the tree.",
"translation": "Elteng me me gareni wiekerungga sara.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000179.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nIt is quite uncommon for a predicate to be used attributively; Kalamang speakers prefer to express monovalent stative non-agentive characteristics predicatively. It is therefore not surprising that there are no spontaneous utterances with more than one attributive predicate modifying a noun. In... | 2,539 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: That snake is slithering up the tree.
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... | Elteng me me gareni wiekerungga sara. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That snake is slithering up the tree.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEn... |
mtob_307 | {
"orig": "Two chickens are picking each other.",
"translation": "Kokok eir naunatuka.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000161.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. ... | 2,586 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Two chickens are picking each other.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Two" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: two
Kalaman... | Kokok eir naunatuka. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Two chickens are picking each other.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Two\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngl... |
mtob_414 | {
"orig": "Above the school there is red soil.",
"translation": "Naun kerkap sikola kerun me.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000985.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'.... | 2,480 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Above the school there is red soil.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Above" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: above
Kala... | Naun kerkap sikola kerun me. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Above the school there is red soil.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Above\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEng... |
mtob_5 | {
"orig": "Aprilia's wish is that they go quickly.",
"translation": "Aprilia maun toni mu he loi boet.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000762.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\n3sg-alone mad or person=foc 3sg.obj invite\n'Did he get mad on his own or did people invite him?'\nB:\nsontum=a mat ajak\nperson=foc 3sg.obj invite\n'People invited him.' \ninterrogative clause)\nImperative clausesimperative\nImperatives are directive speech acts used for orders and commandscom... | 2,543 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Aprilia's wish is that they go quickly.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Aprilia's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: fo... | Aprilia maun toni mu he loi boet. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Aprilia's wish is that they go quickly.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Aprilia's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictiona... |
mtob_104 | {
"orig": "At Gowien there are many cassowary's.",
"translation": "Gowien me kasawari reidak.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000469.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... | 2,556 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: At Gowien there are many cassowary's.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "At" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: young cocon... | Gowien me kasawari reidak. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: At Gowien there are many cassowary's.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"At\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngl... |
mtob_448 | {
"orig": "I'm eating cake.",
"translation": "An kukisara na.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000917.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nThe expression ma he me 'that's it', containing distal me, is used to indicate the end of a paragraph, usually one that has a summary of different things or actions, such as the list of ingredients in (). It can also close off an entire story, in combination with se koyet 'finished' (as in , se... | 2,394 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: I'm eating cake.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "I'm" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: stem
Kalamang translation: kawa... | An kukisara na. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I'm eating cake.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I'm\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: ... |
mtob_468 | {
"orig": "It doesn't rain anymore, the containers are dry.",
"translation": "Kalis se baratnin; bakbak se kararak.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000041.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 ... | 2,479 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: It doesn't rain anymore, the containers are dry.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "It" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: ... | Kalis se baratnin; bakbak se kararak. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: It doesn't rain anymore, the containers are dry.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"It\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictio... |
mtob_418 | {
"orig": "Mei called Bakri's father.",
"translation": "Mei Bakri esunat kodi.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000579.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nWhen someone becomes a grandparent, the teknonym is usually replaced with the name of the first grandchild, although the name of the first child may also still be used. Someone can thus be known as 'X's grandmother' and 'Y's mother' at the same time. For married people without children, the nam... | 2,048 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Mei called Bakri's father.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Mei" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: Kei
Kalamang translat... | Mei Bakri esunat kodi. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Mei called Bakri's father.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Mei\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word o... |
mtob_36 | {
"orig": "This wood is bent.",
"translation": "Ror wa me maulcien.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000840.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\n3pl then coconut shell=obj caus=spear edge-3poss=loc\n'Then they put coconut shell on the edge of the spear.' \nma kit=ko\n3sg top=loc\n'He's up [there].' \nma kit-pis=i sarat=nin ma elak-pis=i=a barat=et\n3sg top-side= ascend=neg 3sg down-side==foc descend=\n'It doesn't go up, it goes down.' \... | 2,175 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: This wood is bent.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "This" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: like this
Kalamang translati... | Ror wa me maulcien. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: This wood is bent.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"This\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phras... |
mtob_141 | {
"orig": "Alun gave back his shirt to Jikri.",
"translation": "Alun ladanunat namasuk Jikri kongga.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000942.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 ... | 2,588 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Alun gave back his shirt to Jikri.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Alun" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: run away fro... | Alun ladanunat namasuk Jikri kongga. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Alun gave back his shirt to Jikri.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Alun\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngli... |
mtob_159 | {
"orig": "We went to get Mustafa's father to read the Thursday prayers.",
"translation": "In Mustafa esun rewet malamat paruo.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000790.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\n3sg-alone mad or person=foc 3sg.obj invite\n'Did he get mad on his own or did people invite him?'\nB:\nsontum=a mat ajak\nperson=foc 3sg.obj invite\n'People invited him.' \ninterrogative clause)\nImperative clausesimperative\nImperatives are directive speech acts used for orders and commandscom... | 2,582 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: We went to get Mustafa's father to read the Thursday prayers.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "We" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English wor... | In Mustafa esun rewet malamat paruo. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: We went to get Mustafa's father to read the Thursday prayers.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"We\" in the Kalamang-English bil... |
mtob_347 | {
"orig": "That shirt is nice.",
"translation": "Ladan me rasa.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000845.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\n'You can eat rotten things like this.' \ntumun tur=ten ma elao melalu\nchild fall=at 3sg down.loc sit\n'The fallen child (he) sits on the floor.' \ntumun tiri=ten ladan kerkap=ten=at sabur\nchild run=at shirt red=at=obj wear\n'The running child wears a red shirt.' \ntumun doa=at nabaca=ten lada... | 2,178 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: That shirt is nice.
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 translat... | Ladan me rasa. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That shirt is nice.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phra... |
mtob_263 | {
"orig": "Ramina is the lastborn.",
"translation": "Ramina ma cicaun.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000779.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nKinship terms are presented in the following groups: siblings; cousins; parents, aunts and uncles; grandparents and grandchildren; sons and daughters, nieces and nephews (consanguines); and inlaws (affines). For each group, the terms are presented in a table. An overview of all terms of referen... | 2,318 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Ramina is the lastborn.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Ramina" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: Ramadan month
Kalaman... | Ramina ma cicaun. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Ramina is the lastborn.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Ramina\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word o... |
mtob_374 | {
"orig": "Before, if they danced, they had to use the gong.",
"translation": "Wise me mu nasulaet me malikan mangmanggat napakiet.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000806.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nOne demonstrative, the distal me, has an instrumental form minggi. The root mi- is also encountered in the manner/quality form mindi. On other NPs, the instrumental enclitic is =ki. Perhaps, analogous to the locative and lative forms, the underlying form is mi-n=ki. Like the locative and lative... | 2,660 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Before, if they danced, they had to use the gong.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Before" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phr... | Wise me mu nasulaet me malikan mangmanggat napakiet. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Before, if they danced, they had to use the gong.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Before\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual d... |
mtob_213 | {
"orig": "He is cutting a spear handle.",
"translation": "Ma kahalonggein potma reba.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000497.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... | 2,235 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: He is cutting a spear handle.
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
Kalamang ... | Ma kahalonggein potma reba. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: He is cutting a spear handle.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"He\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word... |
mtob_126 | {
"orig": "He has ill lungs.",
"translation": "Ma gawaruna ning.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000213.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... | 2,330 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: He has ill lungs.
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
Kalamang translation:... | Ma gawaruna ning. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: He has ill lungs.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"He\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: ... |
mtob_434 | {
"orig": "The village head's family sat chatting.",
"translation": "Esa desa mu melalu garung.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000850.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nThe middle child or grandchild, as well as the middle aunt or uncle, can be designated as tumun/tara-/wowa/mama raor, with raor meaning 'middle'.\nKinship terms: affines\nAffines are relatives by marriage. The terms for 'husband' and 'wife' are inalienable. 'Husband' has the same root for first... | 2,108 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: The village head's family sat chatting.
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 Neth... | Esa desa mu melalu garung. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The village head's family sat chatting.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nE... |
mtob_398 | {
"orig": "The top of the rice is still undercooked.",
"translation": "Pasa me keirun tok kangguar.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000501.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\n1sg say Nyong mother.3poss 1du.in first rest∼red tide first good= then dist.loc 1pl.excl fish=\n'I said: \"Nyong's mother, we two rest first. First when the tide is good, we go fishing.' \ndoa supaya mier sanang=et mier hidup-un bes mu-mun naras∼naras=in\nprayer sothat 3du happy= 3du life-3poss... | 2,549 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: The top of the rice is still undercooked.
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 Ne... | Pasa me keirun tok kangguar. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The top of the rice is still undercooked.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\... |
mtob_424 | {
"orig": "I don't want to go in the front, you go first.",
"translation": "An sukaun boraratnin, ka borarei.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000086.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nDirectional verbs may also be used with a subject and object argument without use of di=. In these cases, the verbs indicate ongoing movement, or have less focus on the goal of the movement and more on the movement itself. () is about climbing a coconut palm in order to pick coconuts. The focus... | 2,705 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: I don't want to go in the front, you go first.
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 d... | An sukaun boraratnin, ka borarei. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I don't want to go in the front, you go first.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionar... |
mtob_260 | {
"orig": "Sara is diving for clams",
"translation": "Sara bo kanyuotkowar teba.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000430.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nThe expression ma he me 'that's it', containing distal me, is used to indicate the end of a paragraph, usually one that has a summary of different things or actions, such as the list of ingredients in (). It can also close off an entire story, in combination with se koyet 'finished' (as in , se... | 2,491 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Sara is diving for clams
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Sara" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: bira
Kalamang translat... | Sara bo kanyuotkowar teba. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Sara is diving for clams\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Sara\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or... |
mtob_66 | {
"orig": "Binkur's father neckbone hurts.",
"translation": "Binkur esun komanggasirun ning.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000611.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... | 2,375 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Binkur's father neckbone hurts.
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
Kalam... | Binkur esun komanggasirun ning. | [
{
"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 neckbone hurts.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Binkur's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngl... |
mtob_363 | {
"orig": "Alam's father works on the mainland overthere.",
"translation": "Alam esun gantor distrik owa karajang.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000208.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'.... | 2,344 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Alam's father works on the mainland overthere.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Alam's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase... | Alam esun gantor distrik owa karajang. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Alam's father works on the mainland overthere.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Alam's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dict... |
mtob_318 | {
"orig": "Tamandi is playing in the sea.",
"translation": "Tamandia pasierko kanggeit.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000407.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nThe middle child or grandchild, as well as the middle aunt or uncle, can be designated as tumun/tara-/wowa/mama raor, with raor meaning 'middle'.\nKinship terms: affines\nAffines are relatives by marriage. The terms for 'husband' and 'wife' are inalienable. 'Husband' has the same root for first... | 2,444 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Tamandi is playing in the sea.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Tamandi" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: command
Kalam... | Tamandia pasierko kanggeit. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Tamandi is playing in the sea.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Tamandi\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglis... |
mtob_258 | {
"orig": "Before, they wore loin cloths.",
"translation": "Wise me mu kewara sabur.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000526.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nAnaphoric usedemonstrative!anaphoric\nClear endophoric usage of the distal demonstrative as in (), where me refers back to a referent introduced earlier (anaphora), is rather rare.\nMa canamat koni koluk. Canam me, pusirunbon.\nma canam=at kon-i koluk canam me pusir-un=bon\n3sg man=obj one-objq... | 2,531 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Before, they wore loin cloths.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Before" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: day before yes... | Wise me mu kewara sabur. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Before, they wore loin cloths.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Before\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish... |
mtob_279 | {
"orig": "Kiba's mother bought two dozen cups.",
"translation": "Kiba emun cangkirat losing eiri jie.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000103.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\n'You can eat rotten things like this.' \ntumun tur=ten ma elao melalu\nchild fall=at 3sg down.loc sit\n'The fallen child (he) sits on the floor.' \ntumun tiri=ten ladan kerkap=ten=at sabur\nchild run=at shirt red=at=obj wear\n'The running child wears a red shirt.' \ntumun doa=at nabaca=ten lada... | 2,565 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Kiba's mother bought two dozen cups.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Kiba's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: that's i... | Kiba emun cangkirat losing eiri jie. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Kiba's mother bought two dozen cups.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Kiba's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nE... |
mtob_52 | {
"orig": "That person, barala-illness is disturbing him.",
"translation": "Som yumene barala mat paruo.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000051.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... | 2,491 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: That person, barala-illness is disturbing him.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "That" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: ... | Som yumene barala mat paruo. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That person, barala-illness is disturbing him.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictio... |
mtob_466 | {
"orig": "They over there pluck avocados.",
"translation": "Mu owatko afokarat parua.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000003.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... | 2,410 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: They over there pluck avocados.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "They" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: The Netherlands... | Mu owatko afokarat parua. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: They over there pluck avocados.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"They\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish ... |
mtob_147 | {
"orig": "Yesterday it rained, today the weather is clear.",
"translation": "Wis kalis ourta, opa yua go sir.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000244.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... | 2,474 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Yesterday it rained, today the weather is clear.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Yesterday" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or p... | Wis kalis ourta, opa yua go sir. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Yesterday it rained, today the weather is clear.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Yesterday\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual... |
mtob_209 | {
"orig": "Uncle bought a shirt for him.",
"translation": "Esa temun ladanat jieni ma.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000184.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nWhen someone becomes a grandparent, the teknonym is usually replaced with the name of the first grandchild, although the name of the first child may also still be used. Someone can thus be known as 'X's grandmother' and 'Y's mother' at the same time. For married people without children, the nam... | 2,302 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Uncle bought a shirt for him.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Uncle" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: uncle
Kalamang t... | Esa temun ladanat jieni ma. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Uncle bought a shirt for him.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Uncle\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish w... |
mtob_389 | {
"orig": "Bakri's mother sleeps but Desi woke her up.",
"translation": "Bakri emun min ba Desi mat nawarar.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000994.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nThe noun phrase (NP) is an important analytical concept in Kalamang grammar, as it is the domain of attachment of postpositions and topic and focus markers. The object NP is marked with object postpositionpostposition =at, forming a postpositional phrase (PP).\nma ror cicaun=at pue\n3sg tree sm... | 2,583 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Bakri's mother sleeps but Desi woke her up.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Bakri's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: ... | Bakri emun min ba Desi mat nawarar. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Bakri's mother sleeps but Desi woke her up.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Bakri's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictio... |
mtob_451 | {
"orig": "We scrape the papaya stem.",
"translation": "In polkayak arunat kowaren.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000027.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nbunga pas gol=at sempang=ten nakal keirunggo\nflower woman ball=obj kick=at head ontopof\n'The flower is on the head of the woman who kicks the ball.' \nkawir canam im=at nan=ten nakal keirunggo\nhat man banana=obj consume=at head ontopof\n'The hat is on the head of the man who eats the banana.... | 2,511 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: We scrape the papaya stem.
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 tra... | In polkayak arunat kowaren. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: We scrape the papaya stem.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"We\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or... |
mtob_461 | {
"orig": "He bends one arm up.",
"translation": "Ma tanunat taikoni maulmani saran.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000841.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. ... | 2,458 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: He bends one arm up.
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
Kalamang translati... | Ma tanunat taikoni maulmani saran. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: He bends one arm up.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"He\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phras... |
mtob_19 | {
"orig": "Rehan's tooth fell out but a new one grows.",
"translation": "Rehan gierun tur ba giartena kos.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000228.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nThis is not a well-established construction, and the three other reflexive corpus examples rely on Malay loans. The Malay reflexive pronoun diri 'self' is used in those constructions, which are combined with an AustronesianAustronesian!loan loan verb natobat 'repent' (example ) or Malay loan ve... | 2,325 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Rehan's tooth fell out but a new one grows.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Rehan's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: ... | Rehan gierun tur ba giartena kos. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Rehan's tooth fell out but a new one grows.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Rehan's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictio... |
mtob_151 | {
"orig": "In Gorom there are many clove trees, not so many nutmegs.",
"translation": "Walaka me cengki reidak, sayang me kurang.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000106.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... | 2,651 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: In Gorom there are many clove trees, not so many nutmegs.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "In" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or... | Walaka me cengki reidak, sayang me kurang. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: In Gorom there are many clove trees, not so many nutmegs.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"In\" in the Kalamang-English bilingu... |
mtob_232 | {
"orig": "Dian's father is balancing the canoe.",
"translation": "Dian esun et nauanona reba.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000981.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... | 2,312 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Dian's father is balancing the canoe.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Dian's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: Indones... | Dian esun et nauanona reba. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Dian's father is balancing the canoe.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Dian's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\n... |
mtob_25 | {
"orig": "The man looks at his child.",
"translation": "Canam tumununat komet.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000615.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, ... | 2,339 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: The man looks at his child.
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
Kala... | Canam tumununat komet. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The man looks at his child.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word ... |
mtob_22 | {
"orig": "I'm doing the dishes noisily.",
"translation": "An pinganat waruo ar.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000025.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... | 2,456 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: I'm doing the dishes noisily.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "I'm" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: stem
Kalamang tran... | An pinganat waruo ar. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I'm doing the dishes noisily.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I'm\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish wor... |
mtob_175 | {
"orig": "I want to dry clothes but it's cloudy.",
"translation": "An dodonara masatkin ba go git git.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000240.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'.... | 2,429 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: I want to dry clothes but it's cloudy.
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 kno... | An dodonara masatkin ba go git git. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I want to dry clothes but it's cloudy.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngl... |
mtob_259 | {
"orig": "Sunday Unyil's father and family will return.",
"translation": "Hari ahat Unyil esun mu he yecie.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000004.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\nAnti-topics (AT) are constituents at the right edge of the clause, which serve to specify or reactivate a topic lambrecht1981. In (), the subject of the clause, tumun opa me 'that child', is specified in the postposed NP. It is also a reactivation of the topic, which had been mentioned a few tu... | 2,578 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Sunday Unyil's father and family will return.
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Sunday" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase:... | Hari ahat Unyil esun mu he yecie. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Sunday Unyil's father and family will return.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Sunday\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dicti... |
mtob_15 | {
"orig": "The ananas isn't ripe yet.",
"translation": "Kainasu me tok sawaunin.",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000356.snippet.html"
} | {
"passages": [
"\n'[I] haven't yet been to grandfather Manggan's either.' \npengalaman kon yume sampi in=konggo=nin\nexperience one dist until 1pl.excl=an.loc=neg\n'That experience hasn't reached us yet.' \nwise=kap=nin\nlongtimeago=sim=neg\n'It's not like it used to be.' \nmindi=nin\nlikethat=neg\n'It's not lik... | 2,389 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: The ananas isn't ripe yet.
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
Kalam... | Kainasu me tok sawaunin. | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The ananas isn't ripe yet.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word o... |
mtob_75 | {
"orig": "Expel the chicken first!",
"translation": "Ka tok kokoat arteǃ",
"url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000026.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, ... | 2,447 |
Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West
Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to
Kalamang: Expel the chicken first!
To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Expel" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:
English word or phrase: expel
Kalamang transl... | Ka tok kokoat arteǃ | [
{
"content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Expel the chicken first!\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Expel\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word o... |
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