Lesson 3 Dialogue

"Where are you from?"

Wife: Where did you come from?Verbs have no explicit past tense in Ainu. However, it is clear from context that this should be translated in the past tense.

Girl: I came from Tokyo.

Wife: Thank you for coming from such a faraway place. Take a good look!

Girl: There are so many things I have never even seen before.

Wife: It's okay to pick them up and look at them.

Girl: What is this?

Husband: It's an ikupasuy.

Girl: I'd like to have it.

Husband: This is something special to meLiterally, "a thing that I value/hold dear"., so I am not selling it.

Lesson 3 Vocabulary

Ainu	English
rep	3 (three)
maci	wife
ponmenoko	girl
hoku	husband
hunak	where
wa	from (postposition)
e=	second person singular marker ("thou" or singular "you", used as a prefix)
ek	to come (for singular subjects only)
Tokyo	Tokyo
tuyma	to be far
hi	place
hioy'oy	thanks!
yan	imperative particle (marker for a polite instruction/command)
ku=	first person singular marker ("I", used as a prefix)
ka	(and) even
eramiskari	to not know (transitive verb); to never have done (auxilliary verb)
poronno	many; a lot (adverb)
ani	to hold in one's hand (singular)
pirka	to be good; to be OK
hemanta	what
hemanta an?	what is [it]?
ikupasuy	Libation rod
rusuy	to want to... (auxilliary verb)
eyam	to value; to hold dear
eyyok	to sell