Sentence form

Vikr · Post by **Vikr** » 01 Nov 2004 20:06

Hi All,

I'd like to know if in any language you know or study (ied), one can find, instead of this form (for example)

Thank God my children are alive

this one

Thank God I am alive-childed

Thanks for your responses

Maïwenn · Post by **Maïwenn** » 01 Nov 2004 20:29

not in mine, but if you find one, please keep me posted, it's interesting

Vikr · Post by **Vikr** » 01 Nov 2004 21:57

The only one I know for the moment is Sanskrit

but may be in ancient Tamil or rural Tamil....

sv · Post by sv » 01 Nov 2004 22:12

I think in Ojibwe and other Algonquin languages something like that is technically possible.

Those languages are verb-based; there are verbs like "to-have-a-child" (oniijaanisi), so "i-have-a-child", or "~i'm childed" (nindooniijaanis) is a verb and a partciple "i-who-have-a-child" (weniijaanisiyaan) could be formed easily.

So you can say: zhawenimishin gichi-manidoo ji-oniijaanisiyaan
= bless-me god for-i-to-have-a-child

Is it what you asked about?

Vikr · Post by **Vikr** » 01 Nov 2004 22:19

Thanks a lot sv

Raskolnikov · Post by **Raskolnikov** » 02 Nov 2004 23:28

Could it be done in German?