i Bibi- Sar dinǎs brśind, khoreça! A palem na suslilǎm but... Amari baxt. Te pinre, Tamaro, panǎle si, na?
i Tamàra- Jekh, o zervo, va. Xarri pharradili i tirax telal aj lilǎs pani...
i Bibi- Oh dikh, dikh kon uʒarel amen!
i Tamàra- Mariko, tu... akate? Sar avilǎn? Sar dinǎn andre?
[ćumiden pumen]
i Marìka- Putarde manqe o ćhave, avile angla tumenθe, pumare patatençar, phende so akana aven vi tumen. O Màrko lilǎs pi violìna aj gelo pe siklǎrnesθe. Aj tumen?
i Tamàra- Amen k-i Letapokin sinam sas, e brśindesθar naśti gelǎm ʒi k-i piàca. Ćhindǎn te bala?
i Marìka- Va, xarnǎrdǒm len xarri te zoralǒn. Musaj te ćhindǒn kankana. Sine pherdo ćhumut aj phendǒm – haj te ćhinav len... si o laćho vaxt.
i Tamàra- Pakǎs and-akala paramìsǎ? Kasθar śundǎn len? Jekhe phure rromnǎθar?
i Marìka- Savi phuri rromni: e internetosθe arakhlǒm so si śukar te ćhines te bala tel-o pherdo ćhumut... Phuri rromni si o internèto?
i Bibi- Pherdo ćhumut ja mukhlo ćhumut, amen kamas te ovel pherdo o śudarno. Vi ov musaj te pherdǒl kankana, aj kindǎm te pheras les. Aves andre?
i Marìka- Śaj. Avilǒm te maladǒvav e Tamaraça...
i Tamàra- A me kamav sas te kerav tuqe surprìza, gelǒm te butǎqe thanesθe ama sine jekh Rrom k-o udar. Ov pukavdǎs tuqe so avilǒm? Ka mudarav les!
Today's topic 1 >>
With a click, you can will highlight a series of words presenting the two last postpositions existing in Rromani:
-θe indicating the place you are or the place you are going to (= at, to) >> -θar the place you come from (= from)
They fonction exactly like -qe or -ça and are postponed to the whole group of the nound
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A-ćham
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o phuro siklǎrno
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B-ćham
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e phure siklǎrnes
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B-ćham+postp.
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e phure siklǎrnes
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-θe-θar
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including when there is already one postposition (the one of possesion) inside
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A-ćham
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te butǎqo than
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B-ćham+postp.
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te butǎqe thanes
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-θe/-θar
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GR Click here to see the different accidents of pronunciation occuring in the various Rromani vernaculars >>
Today's topic 2 >>
Padmad 10 introduced the verbal pivot, with various fonctions including the counterpart of the English passive participle. It allowed us to build the active past tense of E-class verbs (padmad 11: pherel > pherdo > pherdǎs) but as a matter of fact it is also a bridge toward the formation of the present and the past tenses of the passive-reflexive voice, which combines both values of the English passive is filled and reflexive fills himself.
Highlight with a click the verbs in the passive-reflexive voice >>
If we symbolize as Ēl the present tense ending of E-class verbs (-av, -es, -el, -as, -en, -en – cf. padmad 3) and as Ās their past tense endings (-ǒm, -ǎn, -ǎs, -ǎm, -en, -e – cf. padmad 5), we may depict the whole structure of all the tenses of both present and basic past tenses in both active and passive-reflexive voices as follows (K is the stem of the verb):
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active voice
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verbal pivot
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pass-refl. voice
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present tense
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K + Ēl
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K + d/l with buxlo type adj. ending (-o, -i, -e)
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basic past tense
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K + d/l + Ās
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K + d/l + il + Ās*
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GR Click here to see the whole table of the forms >>
but notice that the ending -ǒves, -ǒvel & -ǒven are as a rule contracted in modern Rromani contracted into -ǒs, -ǒl & -ǒn – cf. in the present text ćhindǒn, pherdǒl, phendǒl standing for (obsolete) ćhindǒven, pherdǒvel, phendǒvel.
*See padmad 18 as for the remark about Ās*.
Idioms and proverbs >>
The genuine Rromani expression rendering it rains, it is raining is del brśind, whereas other constructions are loan-translations from other languages (as perel [o] brśind < Hungarian esik az eső, Serbo-Croаtian pada kiša; ʒal [o] brśind < Russian идёт дождь etc).
