din
auxiliary: placed at the front of a question as negation
from: didn't
Examples:
| Ai don hon mou dina op! | |||||||||
| Ai | don | hon | mou | dina | op! | ||||
| i | done | hunt | more | dinner | up | ||||
| 1SG | PAST | find | more | food | SAT | ||||
| I found more food! | |||||||||
| Emo tag dison laik dina? | |||||||||
| Emo | tag | dison | laik | dina? | |||||
| them-all | tag | this-one | like | dinner | |||||
| 3PL | call | this | be | food | |||||
| They call this food? | |||||||||
| Noumou. Yo beda don kep bida ufnes na ron op gon homplei. Ai ge tel op bilaik nou dina kamp raun oso luson. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Noumou. | Yo | beda | don | kep | bida | ufnes | na | ron | op | gon | homplei. | Ai | ge | tel | op | bilaik | nou | dina | kamp | raun | oso | luson. |
| no-more | you-all | better | done | kept | bit-of | oof-ness | gonna | run | up | gone | hunt-play | I | get | tell | up | be-like | no | dinner | kamp | around | us-all | ? |
| enough | 2PL | should | save | some | energy | FUT | give | SAT | toward | hunt | 1SG | PASS | tell | SAT | SUBORD | NEG | food | be.LOC | SAT | 1PL.INCL | host | |
| That's enough. I hope you've saved some energy for the hunt. I'm told our hosts have no food. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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