Return to these lines from Dialogue 1.1:
Let’s look at the verb in this sentence. The verb is tuBōgi. It means “are eating.” Notice that the action is taking place continuously. Let's figure out how to ask “Did you kids eat?” instead.
Stripping off the bit at the end we are left with tuBo - the stem form of the word that means eating. Notice that the stem word includes a stressed syllable, Bō, but we can't have that because the last syllable of the main verb of a sentence in hruˀovaPō is always unstressed.
So, we make a small change and the verb for our sentence is now tuBo.
Add the ˀo back -- it's a participle that reinforces that "you" are the subject -- and we have ˀotuBo for our verb.
Questions start with the participle, maˀ, the question indicator. The subject follows next because we are asking a Yes/No question. That will be ˀopəˀɪvaLlikaka, or 'you kids', from pəLli (person -subordinate) and ˀɪva (young). And finally we add our shiny new verb.
maʔopəLlīkaka tuBo.
Well, shoot, that's not quite it. What we have asked here is "Do you kid’s eat?" and what we meant to ask was "Did you eat?"
We need a tense marker. "lle" marks the past tense.
Example 2.1
maʔopəLlīkaka lle ˀotuBo. - Did you eat?
or
lle maʔotuBo. - Did you eat? (rude)
The following exercises will help familiarize you with hruˀovaPō's counting system. Bare in mind that hruˀovaPō has a base 12 counting system. Suppose that the English counting system was that 11 was "Ten and One", and 12 was "Ten and Two." In a similar way hruˀovaPō's numbers go up from Twelve as "Twelve and One", "Twelve and Two" etc..
See reference page 1 for numbers 1-12
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ˀudo - n-dimensional, or n-ary| Example 2.2 | ||
| ˀɪxiˀaga | = 12 + 3 | = 15 |
| ˀɪxilo | = 12 x 4 | = 48 |
| ˀedeˀudo | = 12² | = 144 |
| ˀedeˀudode | = (12²)2 | = 288 |
| ˀedeˀudovoˀɪxivoˀovo | = 11(12^2)+11(12)+11 | = 1727 |
| ˀagaˀudo | = 12³ | = 1728 |
Exercise 2.1.1
| Translate the following English decimal numbers to the base 12 numbers of hruˀovaPō. |
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| a) 25 | ||
| b) 36 | ||
| c) 137 | ||
| d) 143 | ||
Exercise 2.1.2
| Match the base 12 hruˀovaPō numbers with their decimal equivalents. |
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| 1) ˀɪxiˀolo | ||
| 2) ˀɪxiˀede | ||
| 3) ˀedeˀudode | ||
| 4) ˀedeˀudoˀede | ||
Exercise 2.1.3
| Convert the base 12 hruˀovaPō number to it's decimal equivalent |
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| 'ɪxiju'ede | ||
| 'ede'udoga | ||
| 'ɪxitu'ɪki | ||
| 'olo'udo | ||
Exercise 2.1.4
| Fill in the blank with the hruˀovaPō number. hint: this is a logic problem, you should not need to translate numbers to decimal to complete most of this exercise. |
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| ˀapaˀudoˀolo + ______ =ˀapaˀudoˀɪxi | ||
| ˀedeˀudoˀolo - ______ =ˀedeˀudo | ||
| ˀemeˀudo * ______ =ˀemeˀudode | ||
| ˀoloˀudopa / ______ =ˀoloˀudo | ||