Third Lesson

Laiqbun Course

ben qaaiquei by¹	May this day be good
pean sha taru zhao dy^{2, 3} I give you things
zeo ky!⁴	Hello!
kkeui ta zhan ben by⁵	Be a friend to good people
sheo teq sha vao dy⁶	I want to say the truth
qeum sha ry ta shaan sym^{7, 8}	Are you and I next to the store?
qe kkeuacuan kaao ne dy⁹	The bird is not blue

by is a word of the same type as dy, except it’s uses for imperatives. What you say with this word in the end is either a wish or an order.
teru is “to be y’all”, a second person plural pronoun.
zheo actually means “to exist,” but is also used to say “thing.”
ky is similar to dy and by, except this one is used to indicate that something is true because you say it. zeo means “to greet” or “to say hi,” so it is true because you are saying it. “I hereby proclaim you spouses for life” is another sentence where this word would be used.
When you put a word in verb form after a noun, the “verb” behaves like an adjective. You can do this as many times as you want.
Wen two verbs are together in a sentence, their meanings are “stacked” onto each other. sheo means “to want something to happen,” so sheo teq means “to want to say something.”
ry means “and.” It is used to connect two nouns.
sym is like dy, by and ky, and is used to mark interrogation.
qe means “to not be the case.”

qe sheo teq hau dy	They don’t want to talk
kkeui sha ry ta dy	%(blur)You and I are friends
kkeui kaao zhan dy	%(blur)The bird is a friend of the person
zeo ta sharu by!	%(blur)Say hi to us!