Gilo Grammar 18

Dates, Times, Ages, Weights and Measures

18 Dates, Times, Ages, Weights and Measures

18.1 Days and Weeks

Weekdays are made from the root word 'di' followed by the weekday number. The compound word formed becomes the weekday name.

· day	di
· today	ezdi
· previous day	di oza
· yesterday	ozdi
· following day	di uza
· tomorrow	uzdi

· Monday	dian
· Tuesday	didu
· Wednesday	ditri
· Thursday	difør
· Friday	difiv
· Saturday	disis
· Sunday	disev

· week	wik
· this week	ezwik
· previous week	wik oza
· last week	ozwik
· following week	wik uza
· next week	uzwik

· I sleep at night	me slipiz nita
· I shall come on Monday	me hejuz dian
· I went on Monday though I usually go Tuesdays	me joz dian opre me jiz umfe didu
· On Tuesday morning	e didumør
· yesterday evening, tomorrow morning	oznin, uzmør

18.2 Months

Months are made from the root word 'mon' followed by the month number. The compound word formed becomes the month name.

· previous month	mon oza	· month	mon	· following month	mon uza
· last month	ozmon	· this month	ezmon	· next month	uzmon

· January	monan	· February	mondu	· March	montri
· April	monfør	· May	monfiv	· June	monsis
· July	monsev	· August	monok	· September	monni
· October	monax	· November	monaxan	· December	monaxdu

· next March, last May

montri uza, monfiv oza

18.3 Dates & Times

Dates are given in descending order, starting with the year, month, day, weekday and time. Year numbers are preceded by the word 'yir'. Times use the 24 hour clock, in the form :- number of hour, 'ur' (o'clock) number of minutes (i.e. as in French).

· Monday, 9.10pm, 9th June 1996

(1996, June 9^th, Monday 21hrs10)

yir kil, nisen, niax, sis, monsis nia, dian, duaxan ur ax

· What time is it? 3.15pm.

(15 hours 15 minutes)

k ur (ol bez), axfiv ur axfiv

· When was it? In 1066.

k te ol boz. yir kil, sisax, sis

18.4 Ages

The words 'yir' (year) and 'mon' (month) can be used directly as verbs.

· How old was he?	k je il ajoz (k il yiroz)
· My elder sister is twenty five years old	sibel ajmua mea yirez duax, fiv
· The baby boy is seven months old	babil monez sev

18.5 Quantities & Measures

The word 'je' means 'quantity of' and can be used as a suffix for any word relating to weights, measures, containers (eg vessels, boxes etc) or items which are 'temporary containers' (eg mouths, hands, tables etc).

· Two tons of coal, a glass of water	du tonje kul, glisje wøt
· A bag of those apples,	bagje ce pomi
· three of those books	trije ce buki
· A mouthful of cheese,	mofje cis
· an armful of books	ãmje buki

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