Row 4: The Ledger

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The verb in second place

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A Somka sentence puts its verb, or its ledger word, second. Whatever comes first, the verb follows it.

Som ka retu

dream is resist

The dream is the back door.

Inside a phrase, the important word comes last. Describing words come before the thing they describe, the owner comes before te and the thing owned, and the little words that English puts before a noun (to, in, from) come after it in Somka.

Tatan ke

Hotel in

in the Hotel

Nin se

Vault to

to the Vault

rin ku

door from

from the door

Numbers go before what they count: khi rak, seven rows.

khi rak

seven row

seven rows

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  1. How do you say in the Hotel?
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  3. What does Nin se mean?