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mtob_432
{ "orig": "Tomi's mother sits weaving a basket.", "translation": "Tomi emun melalu kiemara kowam.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000674.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Tomi's mother sits weaving a basket. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Tomi's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Kuhl's s...
Tomi emun melalu kiemara kowam.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Tomi's mother sits weaving a basket.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Tomi's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nE...
mtob_447
{ "orig": "Alif doesn't eat, his body is weak.", "translation": "Alif me ma muapninda, ma kaloum.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000380.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'You give [the food] to them, they eat. \nClausal modification\nClausal modification encompasses strategies for expressing the mood, aspect or mode of a verb or clause, or specifying the manner, temporal setting, degree or other characteristics of the state or event expressed by the predicate, ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Alif doesn't eat, his body is weak. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Alif" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: if not Kala...
Alif me ma muapninda, ma kaloum.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Alif doesn't eat, his body is weak.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Alif\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngl...
mtob_430
{ "orig": "I bake three fish.", "translation": "An sorat karuoi sair.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000463.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nfish piece-one-objqnt grandfather=ben give=imp\n'Give one piece of fish to grandfather!' \nnaman=a padanual=at rep=i ka ∅\nwho=foc pandanus=obj get= 2sg give\n'Who got pandanus [leaf] and gave it to you?' \nBenefactive =ki was also elicited in non-give constructions such as the one exemplified ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I bake three fish. 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 Kalamang translati...
An sorat karuoi sair.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I bake three fish.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: ...
mtob_88
{ "orig": "I'm eating maize, my jaw is tired.", "translation": "An ketelesat nara kanggusan nauware.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000421.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I'm eating maize, my jaw is tired. 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...
An ketelesat nara kanggusan nauware.
[ { "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 maize, my jaw is tired.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I'm\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglis...
mtob_358
{ "orig": "That man is harvesting coconuts.", "translation": "Canam me watsara reba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000101.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\npossessor-possessum order & & §\nclause-final negator & & §\nKalamang has four of the six features. While Kalamang exhibits different ways to make possessive constructions, it is not clear what governs the use of these strategies, and so it is unclear whether we can speak of possessive classifi...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: That man is harvesting coconuts. 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 Kala...
Canam me watsara reba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That man is harvesting coconuts.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish...
mtob_372
{ "orig": "At Unyil's family's back of the kitchen there is sugarcane.", "translation": "Unyil mu didirasun balakangun me kom mambon.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000604.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: At Unyil's family's back of the kitchen there is sugarcane. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "At" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word ...
Unyil mu didirasun balakangun me kom mambon.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: At Unyil's family's back of the kitchen there is sugarcane.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"At\" in the Kalamang-English bilin...
mtob_108
{ "orig": "I'm lazy, I'm not going.", "translation": "An jabul o, an botnin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000309.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I'm lazy, I'm not going. 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 translati...
An jabul o, an botnin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I'm lazy, I'm not going.\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 ...
mtob_406
{ "orig": "Suci's mother blows the fire, her fire is about to die out.", "translation": "Suci emun dinkou, dinun nalatkin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000669.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Suci's mother blows the fire, her fire is about to die out. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Suci's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English w...
Suci emun dinkou, dinun nalatkin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Suci's mother blows the fire, her fire is about to die out.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Suci's\" in the Kalamang-English b...
mtob_401
{ "orig": "Thirty we bought.", "translation": "Putkon karuia pi jieret.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000275.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Thirty we bought. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Thirty" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: thirty Kalamang translation...
Putkon karuia pi jieret.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Thirty we bought.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Thirty\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phra...
mtob_249
{ "orig": "I alone sit over there.", "translation": "Anahutak owatko melalu reba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000005.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I alone sit over there. 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 Kalamang tran...
Anahutak owatko melalu reba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I alone sit over there.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phr...
mtob_233
{ "orig": "That Javanese woman has a slightly wide face.", "translation": "Jawawas yumene kanggirarun lauskaning bolon.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000726.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: That Javanese woman has a slightly wide face. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "That" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: w...
Jawawas yumene kanggirarun lauskaning bolon.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That Javanese woman has a slightly wide face.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual diction...
mtob_421
{ "orig": "A rotan basket.", "translation": "Karanjang sorkarek.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000441.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: A rotan basket. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "A" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Antalisa Kalamang translation: Tam...
Karanjang sorkarek.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: A rotan basket.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"A\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: Ant...
mtob_160
{ "orig": "Mas has a white beach.", "translation": "Mas me osun iriskapte.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000823.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nElevationals may be applied on both a smaller and bigger scale than the village. On a smaller scale, a speaker may use elevationals to refer to the immediate environment such as a house or a tree. In (), the speaker is looking for a knife in her house, and refers to her bedroom as being 'down'....
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Mas has a white beach. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Mas" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Mas Kalamang translation:...
Mas me osun iriskapte.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Mas has a white beach.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Mas\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or ph...
mtob_217
{ "orig": "Suci's mother has a headache.", "translation": "Suci emun nakal ning deba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000929.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nSuka-poss Verb=neg is a dedicated negative construction that means 'to not want; to not agree'. The construction is made with the borrowed verb suka (<Indonesian suka 'to like', but not in use with that meaning in Kalamang), nominalised by inflection with a possessive suffix and followed by a n...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Suci's mother has a headache. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Suci's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: that's it Kalam...
Suci emun nakal ning deba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Suci's mother has a headache.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Suci's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish ...
mtob_93
{ "orig": "It rained a lot so the lamps don't burn.", "translation": "Kalis temunden me don yuolyuol yua me yuolnin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000142.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nfish piece-one-objqnt grandfather=ben give=imp\n'Give one piece of fish to grandfather!' \nnaman=a padanual=at rep=i ka ∅\nwho=foc pandanus=obj get= 2sg give\n'Who got pandanus [leaf] and gave it to you?' \nBenefactive =ki was also elicited in non-give constructions such as the one exemplified ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: It rained a lot so the lamps don't burn. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "It" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: young co...
Kalis temunden me don yuolyuol yua me yuolnin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: It rained a lot so the lamps don't burn.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"It\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nE...
mtob_135
{ "orig": "Four tuna's.", "translation": "Suagi et kansuor.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000427.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\npalmoil=obj little-objqnt appl=rub\n'[You] rub a little palm oil on.' \nHowever, when another modifier follows the quantifier, -i does not occur.\nmu yapseran-un nak-eir metNP toni pasor=ta eba mu nan=et\n3pl yam-3poss clffruit1-two dist.obj want fry= then 3pl consume=\n'They want to fry those ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Four tuna's. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Four" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: to pour Kalamang translation: nasi...
Suagi et kansuor.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Four tuna's.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Four\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: to ...
mtob_360
{ "orig": "An eagle cam down to catch a fish.", "translation": "Lusi etkon bara sorat jie.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000775.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: An eagle cam down to catch a fish. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "An" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Antalisa Kalam...
Lusi etkon bara sorat jie.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: An eagle cam down to catch a fish.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"An\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish...
mtob_103
{ "orig": "I think we don't come down.", "translation": "An kona in baratnin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000624.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe 'until'-constructions with bo 'to go' illustrated in () and () are also often found with distal manner demonstrative!mannerdemonstrative mindi and another verb, marked with predicate linker =i. The order is Verb=plnk + 'like that' + 'go' (example ). The construction can be elaborated with m...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I think we don't come down. 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 Kalamang ...
An kona in baratnin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I think we don't come down.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or...
mtob_459
{ "orig": "The front of the canoe.", "translation": "Et sabarkin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000558.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The front of the canoe. 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 Kalamang...
Et sabarkin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The front of the canoe.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or p...
mtob_124
{ "orig": "Onin's father and family break down their house's roof.", "translation": "Onin esun mu keweun sengunara maorek.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000812.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nSix of the seven verbs can be divided into opposite pairs: sara 'to ascend' and bara 'to descend', masara 'to move towards land' and marua 'to move towards sea', and mia 'to come' and ra 'to move away'. These pairs may occur together to indicate a back-and-forth movement. The verb pairs saran-b...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Onin's father and family break down their house's roof. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Onin's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word ...
Onin esun mu keweun sengunara maorek.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Onin's father and family break down their house's roof.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Onin's\" in the Kalamang-English bilin...
mtob_148
{ "orig": "The basket has big holes, stick leaves to it.", "translation": "Kiem ma me posposun temun, loloki nawolet.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000997.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nWhile there is one noun that cannot be the object of a verb but instead must be incorporated, don 'thing', there are also restrictions on which elements can be incorporated. Pronouns, demonstrativedemonstratives and modified nouns cannot be incorporated. As for the verbs, intransitive verbs can...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The basket has big holes, stick leaves to it. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "The" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Th...
Kiem ma me posposun temun, loloki nawolet.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The basket has big holes, stick leaves to it.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictiona...
mtob_212
{ "orig": "Halim's kid's fontanelle isn't hard yet.", "translation": "Halim tumunun nakal pokpok tok karanin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000930.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe following four valencyvalency-changing operations and constructions are attested: reflexive constructions, reciprocal constructions, applicativesapplicative and causativecausative constructions. Kalamang has no passivepassive*. () to () give examples of the four operations, all of them exec...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Halim's kid's fontanelle isn't hard yet. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Halim's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Hal...
Halim tumunun nakal pokpok tok karanin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Halim's kid's fontanelle isn't hard yet.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Halim's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionar...
mtob_442
{ "orig": "That dog is all skin and bones.", "translation": "Bal yumene kirkangkangunsaet.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000569.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe expression ma he me 'that's it; that's enough' is also a demonstrative clause. () is taken from a story where a black-furred monkey wants to turn his fur white. A cuscus puts him in a cage in the rising sea, knowing that everything looks lighter under water. When the monkey sees his legs st...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: That dog is all skin and bones. 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 Kalam...
Bal yumene kirkangkangunsaet.
[ { "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 all skin and bones.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish ...
mtob_131
{ "orig": "Desi sits but Fit is disturbing her too much.", "translation": "Desi melalu ba Fit mat koyalsawe.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000681.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Desi sits but Fit is disturbing her too much. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Desi" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: t...
Desi melalu ba Fit mat koyalsawe.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Desi sits but Fit is disturbing her too much.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Desi\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual diction...
mtob_417
{ "orig": "Kalamang broke his fast, he isn't fasting.", "translation": "Kalamang me nasek ma tolasnin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000967.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....
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Kalamang broke his fast, he isn't fasting. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Kalamang" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: ...
Kalamang me nasek ma tolasnin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Kalamang broke his fast, he isn't fasting.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Kalamang\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictio...
mtob_350
{ "orig": "Your leg hurts.", "translation": "Korcara ning.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000637.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nInterjectionsinterjection(\nInterjections are conventionalised utterances expressing spontaneous emotions or reactions. They are extra-grammatical and can be utterances on their own or they can be apposed to a sentence. They include cries of disgust or surprise, as well as greetings and words l...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Your leg hurts. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Your" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: to pour Kalamang translation: n...
Korcara ning.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Your leg hurts.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Your\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: ...
mtob_439
{ "orig": "Rehan doesn't want to go, he shakes his head.", "translation": "Rehan sukaun botnin ma nakalunara muk.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000895.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Rehan doesn't want to go, he shakes his head. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Rehan" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: ...
Rehan sukaun botnin ma nakalunara muk.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Rehan doesn't want to go, he shakes his head.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Rehan\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictio...
mtob_182
{ "orig": "On the east side the water is murky.", "translation": "Tagurep me pasier luam.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000773.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nOther left-headed compounds are made with the nouns pas 'woman', canam 'man', emun 'mother' and tumun 'child'. The first two, exemplified in (), specify the gendergender of the head noun, and the second two specify relative size, with emun for big things and tumun for small things. This is alwa...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: On the east side the water is murky. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "On" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Onin people ...
Tagurep me pasier luam.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: On the east side the water is murky.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"On\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngli...
mtob_42
{ "orig": "Fatima and family go collect firewood.", "translation": "Fatima mu bo kairep teba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000350.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Fatima and family go collect firewood. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Fatima" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Fatar ...
Fatima mu bo kairep teba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Fatima and family go collect firewood.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Fatima\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\...
mtob_244
{ "orig": "Taros they sell at Fakfak: one heap fifty thousand (rupiah).", "translation": "Manadu mu Pakpao parinda tumpuk konde ripi purap.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000804.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe form salak is probably related to Indonesian sa-laksa 'ten thousand'.\nClassifiersclassifier(\nClassifiers\nllQp2cm\nclassifier & gloss & used for & also usedfor/as\nal- & clfstrip & strips or strings of (natural) material & part-of-whole\nar- & clfstem & all trees, plants and rope, as well...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Taros they sell at Fakfak: one heap fifty thousand (rupiah). To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Taros" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English w...
Manadu mu Pakpao parinda tumpuk konde ripi purap.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Taros they sell at Fakfak: one heap fifty thousand (rupiah).\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Taros\" in the Kalamang-English b...
mtob_107
{ "orig": "It's raining.", "translation": "Kalis our.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000373.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'Touching each other's bottoms.' \nNau= is in a few cases used in a distributivedistributive sense. In (), it is prefixed to gang 'to hang' to talk about items hanging in a tree. It is distributive in the sense that the items hang in different places. In (), it is used to describe a naked man. ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: It's raining. 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 it Kalamang translation: m...
Kalis our.
[ { "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.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"It's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: th...
mtob_178
{ "orig": "In the late afternoon it rained.", "translation": "Go ginggirta kalis se our.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000239.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n3sg prison.mly=obj=foc return 3sg appl=chat\n'He returns from prison, he talks [about it? to them?].' \nLastly, there is one recorded case of a noun-to-verb conversion with help of applicative ko=. The noun kanggirar 'face' changes to kokanggirar 'to face'. Though this is not a prototypical app...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: In the late afternoon it rained. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "In" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Indonesian Kalam...
Go ginggirta kalis se our.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: In the late afternoon it rained.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"In\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish w...
mtob_292
{ "orig": "The kids are throwing stones at the mangos.", "translation": "Tumtum yargi wiat mudi.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000889.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nInterjectionsinterjection(\nInterjections are conventionalised utterances expressing spontaneous emotions or reactions. They are extra-grammatical and can be utterances on their own or they can be apposed to a sentence. They include cries of disgust or surprise, as well as greetings and words l...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The kids are throwing stones at the mangos. 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 ...
Tumtum yargi wiat mudi.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The kids are throwing stones at the mangos.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary...
mtob_300
{ "orig": "You are to noisy, go over there!", "translation": "Ka talalu laursawe, owangga boreǃ", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000725.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nInterjectionsinterjection(\nInterjections are conventionalised utterances expressing spontaneous emotions or reactions. They are extra-grammatical and can be utterances on their own or they can be apposed to a sentence. They include cries of disgust or surprise, as well as greetings and words l...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: You are to noisy, go over there! To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "You" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: what are you do...
Ka talalu laursawe, owangga boreǃ
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: You are to noisy, go over there!\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"You\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish ...
mtob_97
{ "orig": "Before, they went to pick mangosteen to cook and eat.", "translation": "Wiseme mu bo gainkajie kuarte na.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000202.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe form salak is probably related to Indonesian sa-laksa 'ten thousand'.\nClassifiersclassifier(\nClassifiers\nllQp2cm\nclassifier & gloss & used for & also usedfor/as\nal- & clfstrip & strips or strings of (natural) material & part-of-whole\nar- & clfstem & all trees, plants and rope, as well...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Before, they went to pick mangosteen to cook and eat. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Before" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or...
Wiseme mu bo gainkajie kuarte na.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Before, they went to pick mangosteen to cook and eat.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Before\" in the Kalamang-English bilingu...
mtob_184
{ "orig": "A Makassarese came to work with flying fish eggs.", "translation": "Makassarsontum lukte masal narun paruo reba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000826.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe form salak is probably related to Indonesian sa-laksa 'ten thousand'.\nClassifiersclassifier(\nClassifiers\nllQp2cm\nclassifier & gloss & used for & also usedfor/as\nal- & clfstrip & strips or strings of (natural) material & part-of-whole\nar- & clfstem & all trees, plants and rope, as well...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: A Makassarese came to work with flying fish eggs. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "A" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: ...
Makassarsontum lukte masal narun paruo reba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: A Makassarese came to work with flying fish eggs.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"A\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictio...
mtob_210
{ "orig": "There's a wasp nest over there.", "translation": "Gowienkier eun owatko.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000263.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nOther left-headed compounds are made with the nouns pas 'woman', canam 'man', emun 'mother' and tumun 'child'. The first two, exemplified in (), specify the gendergender of the head noun, and the second two specify relative size, with emun for big things and tumun for small things. This is alwa...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: There's a wasp nest over there. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "There's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: like here Ka...
Gowienkier eun owatko.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: There's a wasp nest over there.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"There's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngli...
mtob_261
{ "orig": "That kid is white like a Javanese.", "translation": "Tumun imene iren nain Jawasontumgap.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000301.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: That kid is white like a Javanese. 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 Ka...
Tumun imene iren nain Jawasontumgap.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That kid is white like a Javanese.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngli...
mtob_65
{ "orig": "Salima's mother is serving vegetables again.", "translation": "Salima emun weleat nawan weinun.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000992.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nim panggala yapseran manadu pasiem met=a in na∼nan\nbanana cassava yam taro banana dist=foc 1pl.excl consume∼hab\n'Banana, cassava, yam, taro, banana, that's what we used to eat.' \nUnmarked conjunctive coordination without an intonation break is uncommon. This type of intonation is used cross-...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Salima's mother is serving vegetables again. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Salima's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase...
Salima emun weleat nawan weinun.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Salima's mother is serving vegetables again.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Salima's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dict...
mtob_341
{ "orig": "Grandmother is making a mat.", "translation": "Nina irarparuo reba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000299.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Grandmother is making a mat. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Grandmother" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: greatgrandm...
Nina irarparuo reba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Grandmother is making a mat.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Grandmother\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngl...
mtob_166
{ "orig": "Will it rain?", "translation": "Kaliskin ye ge?", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000372.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Will it rain? To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Will" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: kill Kalamang translation: rua T...
Kaliskin ye ge?
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Will it rain?\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Will\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: ki...
mtob_293
{ "orig": "There are many butterflyfish at Mas.", "translation": "Kilibobang me Masko reidak.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000555.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe form salak is probably related to Indonesian sa-laksa 'ten thousand'.\nClassifiersclassifier(\nClassifiers\nllQp2cm\nclassifier & gloss & used for & also usedfor/as\nal- & clfstrip & strips or strings of (natural) material & part-of-whole\nar- & clfstem & all trees, plants and rope, as well...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: There are many butterflyfish at Mas. 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 ...
Kilibobang me Masko reidak.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: There are many butterflyfish at Mas.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"There\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEn...
mtob_80
{ "orig": "I'm getting bamboo to make a basket with.", "translation": "An gousat repte minggi kiemparuo.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000212.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe form salak is probably related to Indonesian sa-laksa 'ten thousand'.\nClassifiersclassifier(\nClassifiers\nllQp2cm\nclassifier & gloss & used for & also usedfor/as\nal- & clfstrip & strips or strings of (natural) material & part-of-whole\nar- & clfstem & all trees, plants and rope, as well...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I'm getting bamboo to make a basket with. 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 K...
An gousat repte minggi kiemparuo.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I'm getting bamboo to make a basket with.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I'm\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\...
mtob_269
{ "orig": "That day there was a lot of fish.", "translation": "Yuol me sorat fakurat.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000196.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe form salak is probably related to Indonesian sa-laksa 'ten thousand'.\nClassifiersclassifier(\nClassifiers\nllQp2cm\nclassifier & gloss & used for & also usedfor/as\nal- & clfstrip & strips or strings of (natural) material & part-of-whole\nar- & clfstem & all trees, plants and rope, as well...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: That day there was a lot of fish. 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 Kal...
Yuol me sorat fakurat.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That day there was a lot of fish.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglis...
mtob_458
{ "orig": "Nadia's father and family go to the mainland overther to cut a canoe.", "translation": "Nadia esun mu bo kolak owatkoa etkies.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000592.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nPossessive constructions express the relation between the possessor and the possessed. This chapter deals with the ways these relations are expressed in Kalamang. It also includes a discussion of associative relations, which are expressed with the enclitic =kin.\nOverview\nKalamang has two seri...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Nadia's father and family go to the mainland overther to cut a canoe. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Nadia's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary...
Nadia esun mu bo kolak owatkoa etkies.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Nadia's father and family go to the mainland overther to cut a canoe.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Nadia's\" in the Kalaman...
mtob_123
{ "orig": "The trevally bit, Dela's father and associates caught it.", "translation": "Irausi na, Dela esun mua ramie.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000300.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nTwo identificational examples are given in () and (). In (), the speaker points at a picture with three people and identifies them one by one. () is from a story about a wedding, where the names of the bride's and groom's families are called out as a way of introducing the family members to cou...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The trevally bit, Dela's father and associates caught it. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "The" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word o...
Irausi na, Dela esun mua ramie.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The trevally bit, Dela's father and associates caught it.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English biling...
mtob_280
{ "orig": "Burhan and his friends live on the mainland over there.", "translation": "Burhan mu distrik owa gocie.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000246.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 )...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Burhan and his friends live on the mainland over there. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Burhan" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word ...
Burhan mu distrik owa gocie.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Burhan and his friends live on the mainland over there.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Burhan\" in the Kalamang-English bilin...
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{ "orig": "Bakri's mother and family go searching for worms.", "translation": "Bakri emun mu bo ibanruo reba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000279.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Bakri's mother and family go searching for worms. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Bakri's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or ph...
Bakri emun mu bo ibanruo reba.
[ { "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 and family go searching for worms.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Bakri's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual ...
mtob_199
{ "orig": "Kiba's family have a lot of blossom with red flowers.", "translation": "Kiba mu bunga arun bo reidak pusun kerkapten.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000091.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nPossessive constructions express the relation between the possessor and the possessed. This chapter deals with the ways these relations are expressed in Kalamang. It also includes a discussion of associative relations, which are expressed with the enclitic =kin.\nOverview\nKalamang has two seri...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Kiba's family have a lot of blossom with red flowers. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Kiba's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or...
Kiba mu bunga arun bo reidak pusun kerkapten.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Kiba's family have a lot of blossom with red flowers.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Kiba's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingu...
mtob_444
{ "orig": "Who's that crying? Those kids are hitting each other.", "translation": "Naman mua eruapta ime? Tumtum ma nautu.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000180.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Who's that crying? Those kids are hitting each other. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Who's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or ...
Naman mua eruapta ime? Tumtum ma nautu.
[ { "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 crying? Those kids are hitting each other.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Who's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingua...
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{ "orig": "Yasin's father and Bakir's mother are cross-cousins.", "translation": "Yasin esun me Bakri emun me korapmur.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000638.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nNote that the singular terms for parallel cousins do not correspond completely. Dudanmur and kiamur are terms of reference for a person's cousins. The term of address (inflected for first-person singular) for a cousin of the same sex is kian 'my sister/brother' and for a cousin of the opposite ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Yasin's father and Bakir's mother are cross-cousins. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Yasin's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or...
Yasin esun me Bakri emun me korapmur.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Yasin's father and Bakir's mother are cross-cousins.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Yasin's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingu...
mtob_469
{ "orig": "I have nits.", "translation": "Anan mun sunsun mambon.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000903.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'You give [the food] to them, they eat. \nClausal modification\nClausal modification encompasses strategies for expressing the mood, aspect or mode of a verb or clause, or specifying the manner, temporal setting, degree or other characteristics of the state or event expressed by the predicate, ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I have nits. 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 Kalamang translation: ye...
Anan mun sunsun mambon.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I have nits.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: I don'...
mtob_248
{ "orig": "They go live in an empty place.", "translation": "Mu bo go saerak tua reba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000242.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nStrangers or foreigners may be both referred to and addressed with polite Kalamang kinship terms, preferably esnem or esa for a man, and emnem or ema for a women. However, terms of address from other (Indonesian) languages are also commonly used. A visiting man from Java is referred to and addr...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: They go live in an empty place. 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 bo go saerak tua reba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: They go live in an empty place.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"They\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish ...
mtob_394
{ "orig": "The kids are only playing football.", "translation": "Tumtum me gol kanggeirunsaet.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000408.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The kids are only playing football. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "The" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: The Netherla...
Tumtum me gol kanggeirunsaet.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The kids are only playing football.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngli...
mtob_193
{ "orig": "They three stand, one in the front, two in the back.", "translation": "Munggaruok mambara, kon borara, eir epkadok.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000087.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: They three stand, one in the front, two in the back. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "They" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or ph...
Munggaruok mambara, kon borara, eir epkadok.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: They three stand, one in the front, two in the back.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"They\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual ...
mtob_79
{ "orig": "Don't touch!", "translation": "Kamun koyalin!", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000902.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nIn the Reciprocal constructions and situation type field stimulus kitstimulus evans2004, which consists of short video clips that speakers are asked to describe, nau= was applied to events of hugging, chasing, hitting and exchanging where more than two people were acting upon each other in a un...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Don't touch! To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Don't" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: I don't know Kalamang translation...
Kamun koyalin!
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Don't touch!\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Don't\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: I ...
mtob_298
{ "orig": "Tuti and family go to the mountain to harvest nutmeg.", "translation": "Tuti mu bo keleka ra sayangsara.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000591.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe most common possessive construction is created by means of the possessive suffix. I refer to this as the basic possessive construction. This construction can be used for both animate and inanimate possessors and possessed. See () with tumun 'child' and () with dowi 'seed' as the possessed, ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Tuti and family go to the mountain to harvest nutmeg. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Tuti" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or p...
Tuti mu bo keleka ra sayangsara.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Tuti and family go to the mountain to harvest nutmeg.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Tuti\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual...
mtob_154
{ "orig": "Mustafa's father is shaving.", "translation": "Mustafa esun me konenensarua.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000629.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Mustafa's father is shaving. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Mustafa's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: stab Kalamang...
Mustafa esun me konenensarua.
[ { "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 is shaving.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Mustafa's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglis...
mtob_67
{ "orig": "I put fish on the drying rack.", "translation": "An sorat karuarkeitko maraouk.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000462.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nfish piece-one-objqnt grandfather=ben give=imp\n'Give one piece of fish to grandfather!' \nnaman=a padanual=at rep=i ka ∅\nwho=foc pandanus=obj get= 2sg give\n'Who got pandanus [leaf] and gave it to you?' \nBenefactive =ki was also elicited in non-give constructions such as the one exemplified ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I put fish on the drying rack. 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 Kalama...
An sorat karuarkeitko maraouk.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I put fish on the drying rack.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word...
mtob_445
{ "orig": "Salima's mother was drying her sarong and it flew off.", "translation": "Salima emun kadounat masara ma lele.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000741.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe corpus contains ten different nouns that are followed by freestanding possessive pronouns. Six of these nouns are also found with a possessive suffix, which means they do not require a possessive pronoun construction.(These are pendapat 'opinion' (Malay loan), toman 'bag', hak 'right' (Mala...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Salima's mother was drying her sarong and it flew off. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Salima's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word...
Salima emun kadounat masara ma lele.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Salima's mother was drying her sarong and it flew off.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Salima's\" in the Kalamang-English bili...
mtob_344
{ "orig": "Bobi and family are gone to cut down a forest breadfruit.", "translation": "Bobi mu bo katawenggawuorma reba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000478.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Bobi and family are gone to cut down a forest breadfruit. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Bobi" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word ...
Bobi mu bo katawenggawuorma reba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Bobi and family are gone to cut down a forest breadfruit.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Bobi\" in the Kalamang-English bilin...
mtob_47
{ "orig": "I looked but there were no sea cucumbers.", "translation": "An sanggara ba kibi saerak.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000535.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nOther left-headed compounds are made with the nouns pas 'woman', canam 'man', emun 'mother' and tumun 'child'. The first two, exemplified in (), specify the gendergender of the head noun, and the second two specify relative size, with emun for big things and tumun for small things. This is alwa...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I looked but there were no sea cucumbers. 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 ...
An sanggara ba kibi saerak.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I looked but there were no sea cucumbers.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nE...
mtob_251
{ "orig": "I sleep, the wind blows and I feel good.", "translation": "An minda ur koukoura an narasa mawin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000843.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThis chapter describes aspects of the structure of the simple clausesimple clause. Multiclausal constructions are described in Chapter . This chapter is structured as follows. An overview with the characteristics of the predicate and core argumentsargument!core is given in §. In §, declarative ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I sleep, the wind blows and I feel good. 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 k...
An minda ur koukoura an narasa mawin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I sleep, the wind blows and I feel good.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEn...
mtob_139
{ "orig": "Granny Ruslan's grandmother has a golden bracelet on her arm.", "translation": "Nina Ruslan taraun me liti marau kon tanunggo.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000817.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Granny Ruslan's grandmother has a golden bracelet on her arm. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Granny" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English...
Nina Ruslan taraun me liti marau kon tanunggo.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Granny Ruslan's grandmother has a golden bracelet on her arm.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Granny\" in the Kalamang-English...
mtob_11
{ "orig": "My mother died when I was small.", "translation": "Ema anggon se somin an tok cicaun.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000167.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: My mother died when I was small. 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 t...
Ema anggon se somin an tok cicaun.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: My mother died when I was small.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"My\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish w...
mtob_377
{ "orig": "Is there sugar?", "translation": "Don penpen mambon?", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000140.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nSuka-poss Verb=neg is a dedicated negative construction that means 'to not want; to not agree'. The construction is made with the borrowed verb suka (<Indonesian suka 'to like', but not in use with that meaning in Kalamang), nominalised by inflection with a possessive suffix and followed by a n...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Is there sugar? To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Is" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Banda Islands Kalamang translatio...
Don penpen mambon?
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Is there sugar?\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Is\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phrase: Ba...
mtob_262
{ "orig": "Nabil's mother is kissing Dian's mother's child.", "translation": "Nabil emun Dian emun tumununat namusi.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000946.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'Touching each other's bottoms.' \nNau= is in a few cases used in a distributivedistributive sense. In (), it is prefixed to gang 'to hang' to talk about items hanging in a tree. It is distributive in the sense that the items hang in different places. In (), it is used to describe a naked man. ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Nabil's mother is kissing Dian's mother's child. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Nabil's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phr...
Nabil emun Dian emun tumununat namusi.
[ { "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 is kissing Dian's mother's child.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Nabil's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual d...
mtob_446
{ "orig": "There are many sago grubs.", "translation": "Muap sabur sangganun me reidak.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000886.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: There are many sago grubs. 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 Kalamang t...
Muap sabur sangganun me reidak.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: There are many sago grubs.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"There\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word...
mtob_309
{ "orig": "The sky is brightening, then it will be blue.", "translation": "Kisileng se bo barsi, eba welenggap.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000571.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe similative constructions above do not have a demonstrative function. For that purpose, Kalamang has manner demonstratives wandi 'like this' and mindi 'like that', forms that are likely derived from the proximal and distal demonstratives, respectively. These can be used in combination with s...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The sky is brightening, then it will be blue. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "The" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Th...
Kisileng se bo barsi, eba welenggap.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The sky is brightening, then it will be blue.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictiona...
mtob_115
{ "orig": "The house has collapsed.", "translation": "Kewe me he rouk.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000527.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n1sg house-1sg.poss big=obj make\n'I am making my big house.' \nPossessive pronouns occupy a slot between head nouns and demonstratives (more precisely, between quantifiers and attributively used verbs, but no example illustrating this is available). () illustrates a possessive pronoun preceding...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The house has collapsed. 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 Kalaman...
Kewe me he rouk.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The house has collapsed.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or ...
mtob_173
{ "orig": "Supri's father goes fishing for grouper.", "translation": "Supri esun bo kabaruapmarok teba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000323.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nOther left-headed compounds are made with the nouns pas 'woman', canam 'man', emun 'mother' and tumun 'child'. The first two, exemplified in (), specify the gendergender of the head noun, and the second two specify relative size, with emun for big things and tumun for small things. This is alwa...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Supri's father goes fishing for grouper. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Supri's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: tha...
Supri esun bo kabaruapmarok teba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Supri's father goes fishing for grouper.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Supri's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionar...
mtob_356
{ "orig": "Kaimana is a new regency.", "translation": "Kemana me kapubaten giarten.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000516.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n1sg house-1sg.poss big=obj make\n'I am making my big house.' \nPossessive pronouns occupy a slot between head nouns and demonstratives (more precisely, between quantifiers and attributively used verbs, but no example illustrating this is available). () illustrates a possessive pronoun preceding...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Kaimana is a new regency. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Kaimana" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Kaimana Kalamang t...
Kemana me kapubaten giarten.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Kaimana is a new regency.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Kaimana\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish wor...
mtob_286
{ "orig": "There is a lot of dog poop at Kiaba.", "translation": "Bal kiet me Kiaba me reidak.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000550.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nInterjectionsinterjection(\nInterjections are conventionalised utterances expressing spontaneous emotions or reactions. They are extra-grammatical and can be utterances on their own or they can be apposed to a sentence. They include cries of disgust or surprise, as well as greetings and words l...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: There is a lot of dog poop at Kiaba. 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 ...
Bal kiet me Kiaba me reidak.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: There is a lot of dog poop at Kiaba.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"There\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEn...
mtob_306
{ "orig": "Malik has an illness in his veins.", "translation": "Malik kaden kiesun ning.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000338.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe similative constructions above do not have a demonstrative function. For that purpose, Kalamang has manner demonstratives wandi 'like this' and mindi 'like that', forms that are likely derived from the proximal and distal demonstratives, respectively. These can be used in combination with s...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Malik has an illness in his veins. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Malik" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: Malay Kalam...
Malik kaden kiesun ning.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Malik has an illness in his veins.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Malik\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEngl...
mtob_150
{ "orig": "I fried fish but I still hide it.", "translation": "An sorat pasor ba an tok mormor.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000879.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe form salak is probably related to Indonesian sa-laksa 'ten thousand'.\nClassifiersclassifier(\nClassifiers\nllQp2cm\nclassifier & gloss & used for & also usedfor/as\nal- & clfstrip & strips or strings of (natural) material & part-of-whole\nar- & clfstem & all trees, plants and rope, as well...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I fried fish but I still hide it. 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 sorat pasor ba an tok mormor.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I fried fish but I still hide it.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish w...
mtob_90
{ "orig": "Rajiba's father and family go fish at Lengleng.", "translation": "Rajiba esun mu bo Lenglengga war.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000751.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe corpus contains ten different nouns that are followed by freestanding possessive pronouns. Six of these nouns are also found with a possessive suffix, which means they do not require a possessive pronoun construction.(These are pendapat 'opinion' (Malay loan), toman 'bag', hak 'right' (Mala...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Rajiba's father and family go fish at Lengleng. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Rajiba's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phr...
Rajiba esun mu bo Lenglengga war.
[ { "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 fish at Lengleng.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Rajiba's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual d...
mtob_111
{ "orig": "How many glasses do you have?", "translation": "Don pernananja losing puraman?", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000141.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe expression ma he me 'that's it; that's enough' is also a demonstrative clause. () is taken from a story where a black-furred monkey wants to turn his fur white. A cuscus puts him in a cage in the rising sea, knowing that everything looks lighter under water. When the monkey sees his legs st...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: How many glasses do you have? To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "How" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: low Kalamang trans...
Don pernananja losing puraman?
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: How many glasses do you have?\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"How\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish wor...
mtob_349
{ "orig": "There are many waspfish in the mangrove.", "translation": "Kambanau me tanggor nenekoa reidak.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000390.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nOther left-headed compounds are made with the nouns pas 'woman', canam 'man', emun 'mother' and tumun 'child'. The first two, exemplified in (), specify the gendergender of the head noun, and the second two specify relative size, with emun for big things and tumun for small things. This is alwa...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: There are many waspfish in the mangrove. 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 th...
Kambanau me tanggor nenekoa reidak.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: There are many waspfish in the mangrove.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"There\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:...
mtob_46
{ "orig": "That banana tree is big.", "translation": "Im me arun temun.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000033.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nMany nouns that are modified with a numeral are not attested with a classifier. Examples include all nouns referring to persons (unless they are in a group and following each other, in which case the group classifier ep- is used), shells as in (), landscape features like lempuang 'island' and c...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: That banana tree is big. 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 tra...
Im me arun temun.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That banana tree is big.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or...
mtob_144
{ "orig": "He is talking with Yaban's father.", "translation": "Mier Yaban esaunbona garunggarung.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000082.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nElevationals may be applied on both a smaller and bigger scale than the village. On a smaller scale, a speaker may use elevationals to refer to the immediate environment such as a house or a tree. In (), the speaker is looking for a knife in her house, and refers to her bedroom as being 'down'....
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: He is talking with Yaban's father. 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 Kala...
Mier Yaban esaunbona garunggarung.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: He is talking with Yaban's father.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"He\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish...
mtob_21
{ "orig": "We want to go fishing but our canoe has a hole.", "translation": "In bo warkin ba erun durcien.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000155.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n[Far distal owa]Directing to owane fdist\nOther\nFar distal locative owatko 'over there', while usually used for invisible locationlocations, can also be used when the location is far away from both the speaker and the addressee, and when the speaker wants to create a mental distance to the ref...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: We want to go fishing but our canoe has a hole. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "We" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: W...
In bo warkin ba erun durcien.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: We want to go fishing but our canoe has a hole.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"We\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual diction...
mtob_215
{ "orig": "Our rice is finished.", "translation": "In pasaun se koyet.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000683.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Our rice is finished. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Our" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: pour Kalamang translation:...
In pasaun se koyet.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Our rice is finished.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Our\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or phr...
mtob_177
{ "orig": "Dian's mother went to pour water on Binkur's father.", "translation": "Dian emun Binkur esunat pergi konggareor.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000632.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nPossessive constructions express the relation between the possessor and the possessed. This chapter deals with the ways these relations are expressed in Kalamang. It also includes a discussion of associative relations, which are expressed with the enclitic =kin.\nOverview\nKalamang has two seri...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Dian's mother went to pour water on Binkur's father. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Dian's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or ...
Dian emun Binkur esunat pergi konggareor.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Dian's mother went to pour water on Binkur's father.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Dian's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingua...
mtob_464
{ "orig": "What kind of fish is pecking?", "translation": "Nebasora natuka?", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000999.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe form salak is probably related to Indonesian sa-laksa 'ten thousand'.\nClassifiersclassifier(\nClassifiers\nllQp2cm\nclassifier & gloss & used for & also usedfor/as\nal- & clfstrip & strips or strings of (natural) material & part-of-whole\nar- & clfstem & all trees, plants and rope, as well...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: What kind of fish is pecking? To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "What" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: like that Kalaman...
Nebasora natuka?
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: What kind of fish is pecking?\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"What\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish wo...
mtob_385
{ "orig": "Ruslan's grandmother planted root vegetables next to the house.", "translation": "Ruslan taraun kaliwat kewe mulko kawaya.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000371.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nElevationals may be applied on both a smaller and bigger scale than the village. On a smaller scale, a speaker may use elevationals to refer to the immediate environment such as a house or a tree. In (), the speaker is looking for a knife in her house, and refers to her bedroom as being 'down'....
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Ruslan's grandmother planted root vegetables next to the house. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Ruslan's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: Eng...
Ruslan taraun kaliwat kewe mulko kawaya.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Ruslan's grandmother planted root vegetables next to the house.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Ruslan's\" in the Kalamang-Eng...
mtob_255
{ "orig": "Salima's mother lost weight, she's small.", "translation": "Saiilima emun kadenun tur, kaden cicaun.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000336.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nPossessive constructions express the relation between the possessor and the possessed. This chapter deals with the ways these relations are expressed in Kalamang. It also includes a discussion of associative relations, which are expressed with the enclitic =kin.\nOverview\nKalamang has two seri...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Salima's mother lost weight, she's small. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Salima's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: K...
Saiilima emun kadenun tur, kaden cicaun.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Salima's mother lost weight, she's small.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Salima's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual diction...
mtob_450
{ "orig": "Randa's mother and family are drying clothes.", "translation": "Randa emun mu dodon masa reba.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000824.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Randa's mother and family are drying clothes. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Randa's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase...
Randa emun mu dodon masa reba.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Randa's mother and family are drying clothes.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Randa's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dict...
mtob_428
{ "orig": "Her mother's nipple is sore.", "translation": "Ma emun ambelun neing.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000011.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nOther left-headed compounds are made with the nouns pas 'woman', canam 'man', emun 'mother' and tumun 'child'. The first two, exemplified in (), specify the gendergender of the head noun, and the second two specify relative size, with emun for big things and tumun for small things. This is alwa...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Her mother's nipple is sore. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Her" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: turn over Kalamang ...
Ma emun ambelun neing.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Her mother's nipple is sore.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Her\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word...
mtob_257
{ "orig": "I'm mad at her, I don't feel good about her.", "translation": "An mat kademor, an mat ninan kurang.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000335.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nSuka-poss Verb=neg is a dedicated negative construction that means 'to not want; to not agree'. The construction is made with the borrowed verb suka (<Indonesian suka 'to like', but not in use with that meaning in Kalamang), nominalised by inflection with a possessive suffix and followed by a n...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: I'm mad at her, I don't feel good about her. 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: ste...
An mat kademor, an mat ninan kurang.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: I'm mad at her, I don't feel good about her.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"I'm\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionar...
mtob_297
{ "orig": "We want to go to the westside of Fatar.", "translation": "In Parar muninunggo botkin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000906.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: We want to go to the westside of Fatar. 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...
In Parar muninunggo botkin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: We want to go to the westside of Fatar.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"We\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEn...
mtob_118
{ "orig": "That betel leaf that you pounded, which side is it from, from the beach?", "translation": "Pulor opa ka tura me tamabadok, oskadok?", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000135.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nOther left-headed compounds are made with the nouns pas 'woman', canam 'man', emun 'mother' and tumun 'child'. The first two, exemplified in (), specify the gendergender of the head noun, and the second two specify relative size, with emun for big things and tumun for small things. This is alwa...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: That betel leaf that you pounded, which side is it from, from the beach? To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "That" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary...
Pulor opa ka tura me tamabadok, oskadok?
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: That betel leaf that you pounded, which side is it from, from the beach?\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"That\" in the Kalaman...
mtob_7
{ "orig": "This ankle is swollen.", "translation": "Korkasir yua me rua.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000643.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nWhile there is one noun that cannot be the object of a verb but instead must be incorporated, don 'thing', there are also restrictions on which elements can be incorporated. Pronouns, demonstrativedemonstratives and modified nouns cannot be incorporated. As for the verbs, intransitive verbs can...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: This ankle is swollen. 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 trans...
Korkasir yua me rua.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: This ankle is swollen.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"This\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word or p...
mtob_383
{ "orig": "This shirt's cloth is thick.", "translation": "Ladan wa me kainun mawal.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000842.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...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: This shirt's cloth is thick. 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...
Ladan wa me kainun mawal.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: This shirt's cloth is thick.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"This\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish wor...
mtob_274
{ "orig": "My kitchen is small, but their kitchen is big.", "translation": "Didirasan me cicaun ba mu didirasun me temun.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000126.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\n'I slacken mine, as for yours, you drag it over there, then you slacken!' \nPossessive constructions and possessive morphology is further described in Chapter .\nPronominal addressperson address\nPronominal address with the second-person singular ka and plural ki is a common form of address in ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: My kitchen is small, but their kitchen is big. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "My" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: si...
Didirasan me cicaun ba mu didirasun me temun.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: My kitchen is small, but their kitchen is big.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"My\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictiona...
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{ "orig": "The kids are making noise.", "translation": "Tumtum narabir.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000950.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nInterjectionsinterjection(\nInterjections are conventionalised utterances expressing spontaneous emotions or reactions. They are extra-grammatical and can be utterances on their own or they can be apposed to a sentence. They include cries of disgust or surprise, as well as greetings and words l...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: The kids are making noise. 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...
Tumtum narabir.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: The kids are making noise.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"The\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish word o...
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{ "orig": "Mister Agus sells sarongs.", "translation": "Bapak Agusa kadokparin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000342.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nSuka-poss Verb=neg is a dedicated negative construction that means 'to not want; to not agree'. The construction is made with the borrowed verb suka (<Indonesian suka 'to like', but not in use with that meaning in Kalamang), nominalised by inflection with a possessive suffix and followed by a n...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Mister Agus sells sarongs. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Mister" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: lobster Kalamang t...
Bapak Agusa kadokparin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Mister Agus sells sarongs.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Mister\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish wor...
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{ "orig": "Bakri's mother's tub is broken, she wants to wash clothes but she can't.", "translation": "Bakri emun bintangun se parair ma dodonwaruotkin ba eranun.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000069.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe 'until'-constructions with bo 'to go' illustrated in () and () are also often found with distal manner demonstrative!mannerdemonstrative mindi and another verb, marked with predicate linker =i. The order is Verb=plnk + 'like that' + 'go' (example ). The construction can be elaborated with m...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Bakri's mother's tub is broken, she wants to wash clothes but she can't. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Bakri's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual diction...
Bakri emun bintangun se parair ma dodonwaruotkin ba eranun.
[ { "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's tub is broken, she wants to wash clothes but she can't.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Bakri's\" in the Kala...
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{ "orig": "Nyong's mother and family are closing the roof of their house.", "translation": "Nyong emun mu tok keweunat komanggangguop.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000610.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe sounds people use for calling and shooing away other people or animals, as well as those used in other interjections, often have a phonology that diverges from the phonology of the rest of the language [][283]dixon2010. This is also the case in Kalamang. Some of the most common calling and ...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Nyong's mother and family are closing the roof of their house. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Nyong's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: Engli...
Nyong emun mu tok keweunat komanggangguop.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Nyong's mother and family are closing the roof of their house.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Nyong's\" in the Kalamang-Engli...
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{ "orig": "She gives birth in the hospital.", "translation": "Ma ime rumasakitko amkeit.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000014.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nStrangers or foreigners may be both referred to and addressed with polite Kalamang kinship terms, preferably esnem or esa for a man, and emnem or ema for a women. However, terms of address from other (Indonesian) languages are also commonly used. A visiting man from Java is referred to and addr...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: She gives birth in the hospital. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "She" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: dry in the sun ...
Ma ime rumasakitko amkeit.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: She gives birth in the hospital.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"She\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary:\nEnglish ...
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{ "orig": "Sakina's mother can steer a motor boat.", "translation": "Sakina emun jongsongat bisa kinkin.", "url": "https://dictionaria.clld.org/sentences/kalamang-XV000318.snippet.html" }
{ "passages": [ "\nThe corpus contains ten different nouns that are followed by freestanding possessive pronouns. Six of these nouns are also found with a possessive suffix, which means they do not require a possessive pronoun construction.(These are pendapat 'opinion' (Malay loan), toman 'bag', hak 'right' (Mala...
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Kalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West Papua. Translate the following sentence from English to Kalamang: Sakina's mother can steer a motor boat. To help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to "Sakina's" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionary: English word or phrase: fal...
Sakina emun jongsongat bisa kinkin.
[ { "content": "\n\nKalamang is a language spoken on the Karas Islands in West\nPapua. Translate the following sentence from English to\nKalamang: Sakina's mother can steer a motor boat.\n\nTo help with the translation, here is one of the closest entries to \"Sakina's\" in the Kalamang-English bilingual dictionar...