As an aid to translation practice, I thought it'd be useful to have a list of just what it's possible to say, on Amberwind's Láadan Course on a lesson-by-lesson basis. This is the English for sentence-forming (which sounds like it should be obvious, but I often think I can't translate something when I've actually covered all the relevant ground for it).
There is also a set of 10 lessons on the Láadan Language site; may amalgamate vocab. from those if I get round to doing them. That lesson set seems to introduce complex grammar forms very quickly, so I'm steering clear of it for the time being.
1.
Word order: Sentence marker - verb (negative) noun phrase - evidential
Verbs and adjectives form one class
2.
adjectives: beautiful
verbs: to be beautiful, to be weary, to follow, to work
nouns: birth sibling/sister, creature/animal, person/woman, parent/mother
Declarative sentence marker; personal experience evidential
3.
adjectives: living/being alive, sleeping, open, closed, fearful
verbs: to sleep, to be open, to be closed, to be alive, to ask, to fear, to menopause
nouns: pillow, door, pig, fish, clothing, grain, grass, song, drink, circle, air, stone
others: and
4.
adjectives: talking/speaking, amazing, good
verbs: to say/talk/speak, to sew/stitch (needlework generally), to be amazed, to be good
nouns: I, we (few), we (many)
others: suffix -id (male marker), prefixes me- and n- (plural verb markers)
Trusted source evidential
5.
adjectives: alien, correct, red
verbs: to be current (up to date), to be alien, to be red
nouns: you (one), you (few), you (many); bread
others: yes, no/not/non/negative
Obvious-from-experience evidential
6.
adjectives: good (of a time), good (of a place), beautiful (of time, and place), blue, green, purple, fleecy-clouded (of sky), thriving, eating, thinking
verbs: to be blue/green/purple, to be fleecy-clouded, to thrive/be well, to eat, to think
nouns: day, sky
others: but
Story sentence suffix, invented/hypothetical evidential
7.
adjectives: old (of people), new (of things), furry
verbs: to be old, to be new, to be furry, to jump
nouns: plant
other: she/he/it (non-gendered)/they few/they many
Interrogative sentence marker; disbelieved as from mistrusted source (evidential)
8.
adjectives: gravid
verbs: to be pregnant, to teach
nouns: mountain, language, container, teacher, education, peace, grandparent
others: Science prefix; maker suffix; interrogative pronouns
9.
adjectives: busy, still, bad, listening, laughing, dancing
verbs: to laugh, to dance, to be busy, to be still, to listen, to be bad, to menstruate
nouns: farm, farmer, fruit, garden, bird, horse, weather, wind, cloud, star, window, wisdom, heart-sib
By the end of lesson 9 you should be able to use the following:
| I | eating | sister/sib | eats |
| we (few) | menstruating | heart-sister/sib | menstruates |
| we (many) | menopausing | woman/person | menopauses |
| you (1) | pregnant | mother/parent | is pregnant |
| you (few) | beautiful | grandmother/parent | is beautiful |
| you (many) | amazed | brother | is amazed |
| s/he/it | needleworking | male heart-sib | needleworks |
| they (few) | feaful | man | is fearful |
| they (many) | working | father | works |
| who? | following | grandfather | follows |
| what? | sleeping | language | sleeps |
| and | right/correct | clothing | is correct |
| yes | bad | pillow | is bad |
| no/not | closed | door | is closed |
| maker | open | window | is open |
| science of | querying | circle | asks |
| but | furry/downy | animal | is furry |
| old (of animates) | pig | ||
| weary | fish | is weary | |
| blue | bird | is blue | |
| red | horse | is red | |
| purple | plant | is purple | |
| green | grass | is green | |
| dancing | grain | dances | |
| thriving | garden | thrives | |
| busy | farm | is busy | |
| still/calm | farmer | is still | |
| listening | stone | listens | |
| thinking | mountain | thinks | |
| laughing | air | laughs | |
| speaking | wind | speaks | |
| good | weather | is good | |
| living | cloud | is alive | |
| fleecy-clouded | sky | is fleecy-clouded | |
| teaching | teacher | teaches | |
| jumping | fruit | jumps | |
| new | bread | ||
| drink | |||
| song | |||
| container | |||
| star | |||
| day | |||
| peace | |||
| wisdom |
10.
adjectives: knowing
verbs: to know, to take/bring, to help, to cause, to want
nouns: home, cat, carpet
other: to cause to (verb), object case marker
11.
adjectives: fragrant, strong
verbs: to be fragrant, to be strong
nouns: baby/infant, aunt, kettle, body, milk, flower
other: to try to (verb), relativiser
12.
verbs: to sing, to do
nouns: child, family, gate
other: and then
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