Sunday, January 26, 2014

Lesson # 47 - Prepositions

Today's lesson involves prepositions, which are useful in any language!  You may recall that a preposition:

"A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.
A preposition usually indicates the temporal, spatial or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence"

So without further ado, here are prepositions in Surath:

  • about - illid
  • above - l'el min
  • across - lobar min  
  • after - bathar
  • against - darqul
  • along - lkhabar min
  • among - benath
  • around - khawidhranid
  • at - illid
  • before - qam
  • behind - bathar
  • below - khothid
  • beneath - khothid
  • beside - l-dipnid
  • between - benath
  • beyond - lobar min
  • but - illa
  • by - b
  • despite -________
  • down - l-tekh
  • during - egaha
  • except - illa
  • for - ta
  • from - min
  • in - b
  • inside - bgo
  • into - bgo
  • like - khwathid
  • near - qarywa min
  • of - d
  • off - min
  • on - il
  • onto - illid
  • out - baray min
  • outside - baray
  • over - l-qarid / l-reshid
  • past - lobar min
  • since - min degaha
  • through - bgo
  • throughout - ______________
  • till - hil
  • to - l
  • toward - l
  • under - khothid
  • underneath - khothid
  • until - hil
  • up - ______________
  • upon - illid
  • with - immid
  • within - bgo
  • without - dla
...with a special thanks to Fr. Andy for his help with the translations!

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Lesson #46 - More food-and-cooking-related vocabulary

Food and Cooking Related Vocabulary


Bland (e.g. lacking salt):    pākha
Hot (temperature):   hameema (yan) shakheena
Hot (spicy):    saroopa
Cold (temperature):  qareera
Cooked:    psheela
Raw:    layla psheela (yan) nāya
Salty:    malookha
Sweet:    halooya
Savory:    taymāna
Sour:  khmoosa
Liquid (watery):  mayāna
Hard/Solid:  qooya
Delicious:    baseema
Not Delicious:    layla baseema 
Frozen:  moogdillā (yen) jmeeda
Thawed:    psheera
Warm:  pishoo'a (yen) pshooih (yen) shakheena
Fried:    qilya
Sauteed:    qilya
Boiled:  marathkha
Boiling:  barthakha
Broiling:  biqlāya
Mixed:    khweekha (yan) khwikhta    
   



...what other food or cooking related terms would you like to learn in Surath?