conlangs1-12 Exercise 2: Translating With the Meren Sheet ========================================================== Into English: Si lion tekako ke? "Will you eat the fish?" Li sipulun pasusa. "He/she saw the bedroom." (sipulu = sipu "sleep" + -lu "place" = bedroom; -n marks it as the object; -sa marks the past) Into Meren: "The person made a house." Hamu tohen peresa. "We did not see the moon." Mu simon ha pasusa. Check: - Object before verb (SOV), -n on every object. - The tense suffix (-sa, -ko) is on the verb, and ha comes before the verb. - Every word fits (C)V(n): ha-mu, to-hen, pe-re-sa, si-mon, pa-su-sa. - Stress is on the first syllable of each word.