Hmmmmmmmmmm.
In English, we have
Do you have a pen?
To ask a yes/no question.
But in Hindi, we use 'what' in place of do while asking a yes/no question.
Do you have a pen?
Will translate to
What you have pen?
I asked a few people
In Tamil, the yes no questions are in form
(Verb in question form)?
Like,
Have you eaten yet, will be
Eaten yet?
In French, they are
Is you have pen?(maybe, I don't know french that well, I studied it 2 years ago)
And I think Indonesian also has similar system?
Let me ask quick.
So, Indonesian just ask
Yes or no.
Do you have a pen?
Will be
Pen, yes or no?
Let me see if any of my taglog people are online or not....
No they aren't...
Hmph!
I think I'll just create a thread for this, wait a sec.
The results are in
Do you have a pen? Is translated to
| Hindi | What you have pen? |
| Telugu | You pen near have? |
| Indonesian(traditional) | Whether you have pen? |
| Indonesian(simplified) | pen, yes or no? |
| French | have pen? |
| Tamil | have pen? |
| Bengal | what you have pen near you? |
| Spanish | have pen? |
| Duck | Quack |
| Mandarin | you have one pen? |
| Python | "Yes" if pen else "No" |
| Regas | ($pen ? "Yes":"No") |
| Chinese | have a pen? |
| Cockroach | I have an apple |
| Gujrati | you have pen? |
| Bhojpuri | pen you have? |
@.@)
All I know is.
Yes/agreed would be o.
No/disagree would be ori.
There are 2 apples is translated to ba da appleoma o.
Are there 2 apples?
Hmmm.
Here, the o, which means the existence part is being questioned.
The subject of the sentence would be o.
O ba da appleoma?
What if the subject isn't o?
How many apples are there?
*.*)
Dictionary!!
No, wait, forget it, no dictionary, this is a talk of some other day.
But can we simplify it more?
O appleoma? (Are apples?)
O da appleoma? (Are 2 apples?)
Here we see the the purpose of o and there overlap.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Ba appleoma? (There apples?)
The correct form is, o ba da appleoma, but i don't want to force anything on anyone. This should be a language that is learnt through connecting the dots.
Do you have pen?
O so peno?(you pen?)
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
O so ba peno? (Here you pen?)
We need a word to show possessiveness, and I believe ba is the word for it.
No, rather so.
You and yours, both mean so.
O so ba peno? (Your pen here?)
Where does ba come?
Is it necessary?
O so peno? (Your pen?)
That's..alright? Right?
Yay?
