Carmelo Marchese
21 November 2017
MONGOLIAN ENGLISH LESSON 33
Basic expression To understand Mongolian we can also start looking to some basic expression and some cultural aspect, for example in Mongolian usually the expression like “How do you do!” And/or “Nice to meet You” are not common neither used, so we should not translate them
Basic expressions includes:
How are you? -> сонин юу байна? And the most common сайи байи уу?
And you can answer:
маш сайн - very good
дажгуй - it feels ok
яахав дээ - to express something like “so so”
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Carmelo Marchese
21 November 2017
Iotovane vowels Like in Russian we have some sounds that are mixed with “i/j” and they are not single vowel according to English alphabet, but they are for Mongolians:
я
ё
е
ю
ү
In Mongolian vowels are divided as strong/masculine, weak/feminine and neuter, and like in all Altaic languages there is the mechanism of vowel harmony. This is a key mechanism we shall see in the next lesson
Daily translation Today we start translating the http://time.mn/n/lQy
УЛААНБААТАР ХОТ: Үүлшинэ. Цас орохгүй
Ulaanbaator: cloudy but it is not going to snow
Word analysis: ХОТ - urban
Үүл - cloud
Цас орохгүй - not snow
This is a classical example on how to form the future in Mongolian doing the –хгүй to the stem of the verb
УЛААНБААТАР ХОТ: Үүлшинэ. Цас орохгүй. Салхи баруун хойноос секундэд 7-12 метр.
The wind speed is 7 m/sec and it is flowing from north to west
Word analysis Салхи - wind
баруун хойноос - from NorthśWest
This is a useful sentence as we can see from and to as changing the basic words reported below
Cardinal directions in Mongolian: North - хойд зүг (умар зүг) South - өмнө зүг (урд зүг) East - зүүн зүг - meaning the rising of the sun
дорно дахин - meaning the east land with the people of east West - Баруун зүг, өрнө дорно
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