Dictionary Listing: ñi

Form: ñi [R]

1. the relational NI uninflected for agent; NI is used to denote a change in state for its object. This change can be a change into a new state, a change into a state of existence, or a change in location NI164

Example Sentences:
ē teteñ ien hēja ñanna jamāonre nīkan jakōnōr ja ñi jōl rā anīstīli;
And they said to each other: We should make a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens.
ē teteñ ien hēja ñanna lewēra tō tūaþ wā ñi ñēim makkepōlien rā anmārwi āñ pēxa;
And they said to each other: We should make our name so that we do not become scattered throughout the world.
il aþ ñi λi ārōn rā āke tō sema mo sarōña jamāonre nīkan jakōnōr ja ōrra ñatta;
And then the LORD came to there to see the city with the tower that they had made.
il tamma ien ē ñi liēn rā āke aþ ñalla anwaxāon tō tūaþ ñi anxiēna nīkamma sāim ankewōra cī;
Then He said: And I will go there and I will make confusion so that the understanding among them is finished.
il aþ ñi marāona nīkamma jalūra jacālle rājanō;
Then along came a wanderer with a warm cloak.
temle ien il talōnti nā il ñi sāen rā sōssirja il antielen wā ñi rū xō jē nāra;
He said to me: It was many yesterdays ago when he came to Sōssirja, afterwards he never went from it.
temle ien tō wā sema jatañēn to jakāe ja ñi sū japāŋŋien tō jāo ōrra ñi sāen rū āke;
He said to me: He did not like the doings in the homeland, so he went from there.
wā temle jatatēn ien ē jaliþa ñi sāen rū xō rā jatōna nō rā jasāma aþ ñi māniþa marō rū jatōna rā jasāma jaλāon mē;
He did not tell me the reason that he went one day from there along the road to the desert and became lost and alone from the road into the wide desert.
te janaren ja temle ien illaniþ tema ien ñi sāen marō tō te jāo ewaþ tema jawōla to jaþīña illaniþ tema ien ñi sāen marō il tema jekīþa ien ē rēha la jalōna wījte jē nā rū xō rā annāmmi hi ñamma jatōna japōññe;
All he said to me: when first he perceived he was lost, because that it was even though he doubted his path, when first he perceived he was lost, he was certain that there were only three days from there to fresh water, if he found the road.
tō jāo ñi jatōna tō ñi jaxūna tō jāo;
Because of this there was a road, from the pattern made by this.
temle ien ē tere jamārwakie mo rirōña hi alxien ñi riēn rā xō;
He said to me: it was a surprising sight if you came to it suddenly.
ē ñi rājālme aþ rā jasīsse pē nō ñi jarūsa rā ja ñi jawae jīrān wā il antielen te jatōrreni jannarien;
Cross it and a few yards along, return to where nothing was altered after the completion of all things.
temle ien te anāxkīñi anjūti nīkan jakīþīñi jakepōli jē sōta ñe anwūlīñi ñe ōrra ñi jakōni jatāri nā rā xō rū jasōþa ōl pēxa ānen anþīmme;
He told me there was baked ground with scattered little rocks instead of sand, as if were much gravel thrown to there from a place far above.
wā tema jawāxten illaniþ tō tema jekīþa to ja taxien la jatōna sū sahūta pa anōmen jarāŋŋi ŋō tō jāo hi ñi jarēþa rā jaþīña jahēnār taxien hi ñi jatōna japōññe il anniþen il antielen;
He did not feel vulnerable at first, because he was certain the road was to his right more or less, and also a great many miles of length, so that if he travelled in more or less the right direction, he would find the road sooner or later.
il jalōna wīor il antielen ōrra ñamma jarēþa ānen jatōna ja ñi japōññe wā nīkan anhāri ja ñi ankewōri ī il tema jamīra ñe ñamma sanārme jaþāla ā masāma sakū;
After he had travelled for four days without the road becoming found and with the water becoming used up also then he felt a sudden fear as if the desert came to him and took hold of him with its hand.
il ñi jaraxēwa il ñamma jaxōsa jōrre ānen antūtte wā il aþ ñi sāen maxēie il tema jaxiēna ien il ñi jānnalon jānne il ñamma jatōna japōññe rēha;
Night came, and he stopped searching without willingness and went to sleep with the certainty that come morning he would find the road.
il ñi sāen marēwa il ē tema jahēŋŋūn nā ñe jatarōñ ja tema ōrra aþ tema jaxiēna ien ñamma jatōna japōññe anniþen hēja cī;
When he awoke, he was thirstier that he had foreseen and understood that he must immediately find the road.
hi ñi jatōna japōññe hi hēja ñi sāen rājanō ānen antānre hi ñi sāen rū malō ancāllimma hīja hi pa anmārena luhañen;
And if the road was found, he must go along it with quickness if he would escape the sun's heat and live.
ē ñi ancālli tō malō aþ ñamma jatōna jaxōsa jōrre aþ ñi sāen rā jatarūni jawēhi nō;
And the sun's heat came, and he stopped searching for the road and started following mirages.
kexien tema jekīþa ien la þō jatarūni jawēhi tō tema jatēla ien la þō jalmēsa sū sōssirja pa anhāri wā ewaþ ñi sāen rājanō;
Of course, he knew these were mirages because he knew this part of Sōssirja has no water, yet he followed.
ē te sarōña pa ansōnen nā ñe sasōna ē il tema anhāri il ñi sāen rājanō;
His eyes had more wisdom than his mind and when water was seen, he went to it.
il ānnalon ānen ancēxa wā il ñi sāen rā jatarūni jawēhi nō;
All morning without hope, he followed mirages.
illorren ñamma jān japōññe ja wā ñi rū sāen pēxa;
Finally, he found one that did not go away from him.
tema jekīþa ien la þō jatarūn jawēha to ja ñi honnarien ankēji rājamē rūjēmma rā anlāīñi jakīnte tā;
He knew that this was a mirage from all the ways that the sky came into it and out of it and went under the base of the hills.
il wā ñi jatarūn jawēha ew rū xō pēxa ew jatarūnīwe il ñi sāen rā xō;
And yet the mirage did not move away or disappear when he went there.
la anlāji anēkki ansīñi ankīþi sūjīr nīkan ankēji anñāntiwi tō tūaþ ñi ankeþāwi tō þō tō anmārwi;
There at the back were tall rocky red-brown mountains and sky mixed up together so that here and the world were divided.
ē tema jāŋŋeren to jamāonre jalū sū jēwāri āñ ānen anlūi rū jasōþa wā mo sanārme ien ñe wā tema to anlūani to anexīmi to anxōni to ankīri mo sanārme aþ ñi sapāla sū anxūri hāl sū jēwāri nū;
The beauty from the city shining among the lakes with light from nowhere affected him like neither the stars nor music nor memory nor family had affected him and he wept in front of the gates beside the lakes.
il ñi sapāla sū xō il ñi mēli rū jamāonre rā jatarōn jawēha jahāwa nū nīkan anīλi nīkan antanīsi nīkan anlāni nīkan anlāsi;
While he was there weeping, people came from the city to near the edge of the mirage with cloths and decorations and greetings and welcomes.
ē ñi sapāla luhañen aþ temme jakekōrja ke mēla matūttōnte sū mīþi hāl ien ē se jawēra sarāpa mo jamāonre þō ī ōrra ñi makerāon manōña il jahōλen ī hēja ñatta sāen makerāon āl cī ī hēja ñi sāen rā jamāonre mē cī aþ ilwae ñi sāen manōña rēha;
Still he was weeping, and one with authority, in front of the rest, explained to him that this city was named sarāpa and that the king had been dead a long time and now they would make him the king and that he should come into the city and then never would he die.
ē tema jamārwakie aþ ānen anñiñēka tetme jatēmmēri aþ ānen ankewāla ñi sāen rā sāim rā anxūrimma;
He was amazed, and they called to him with eagerness, and with caution, he went to them, to their gates.
ē ñatta anxūri ankōrji ē ñatta sāim matanāe rājakiē ē tetme jatēmmēri luhañen ew ñi mawae rājanū;
And they opened the gates and made a crowd beyond it and called to him still, but none came to this side.
ē ñi sāen rā anxūri kiē aþ ñi anxūri anpōhi aþ la jatarūn jawēha nīkan jēwāri jalūi sū sāen āñ aþ se jarūlōn to jamāonre;
He went through the gates, and the gates shut, and there was the mirage with the lakes shining around him, and a shout came from the city.
ē ñi sāim rū sāen āñ aþ tetme ien āl ñi jakāenala jāllōhen sū jamāonre jaþāwa jīþa;
And they gathered around him and told him that his ceremony feast was now being made in another part of the city.
ñi sāen rā jatarūna jawēha jēwāri anhāri tō tema jakīña ien ñi jahēŋŋūn jakewōra jē sōta ñe ñi sāen rā jāllōhen;
He went to the waters of the mirage lakes, for he wished to quench his thirst rather than go to the feast.
ñi sāen rū sāim pēxa rā jatarūna jawēha jēwāri anhāri ī;
Again he went away from them to the waters of the mirage lakes.
ē ñi marōāñēl rā sāen ē temme jatēmmēr ien ñarra jahēña tō jatarūna jawēha anhāri wē;
She came to him and called to him Do not drink the mirage water.
tetme jatēmmēri ñe anexīmi ke sarāpa mēli manaren ien ñi anwīþþēñi tō ankērrāoni il jānnaxili sū jamārwi jalōi jīþi rā malō nō nā;
They called to him like music, all the people of Sarāpa, telling him of wines made from magic during the evenings on other shining worlds nearer to the sun.
ñi ē jaxīwi ī jaratāni tō jatarūna jawēha anhāri;
The mirage waters whispered and rippled.
ē ānen ankēwa ī sakōλa jasīra ñi sāen rā jatarūna jawēha anhāri jahāwa;
With weariness and a dry throat, he went to the edge of the mirage water.
ē temme jatasēña ke macēna sakū ī tetme jatēmmēri ewaþ ñi sāen rā anhāri anālnehi tō tūaþ ñamma sāen sawūra jarēŋŋe;
The woman signed him warning and the people called to him, yet he went to the fortunate water in order to wet his mouth.
il ñi sāen sawūra rā jēwār ōl il ñi jēwār jatāra rū ma pēxa;
As he with his mouth became over the lake, the lake fell away from him.
ē ñi sāen sakū rājanō aþ anniþen ñi sāen matāra ī;
He with his hand went after it and soon he was falling also.
ñi jēwār jalō ē jatāra ē jatāra rū ma hāl;
The shining lake fell and fell before him.
ē anniþen ñi sawūrre jasōhi rū jamāonre sarāpa ī ñi sāen matāra il jahōλen ānen ansōha ānen anūri jūma ēmma;
The voices from the city of sarāpa soon became silent and he fell for a long time with silence except for the noise of the air.
ē ñi jēwār ē jaxēla ē jaxēla ī ē ñi sāen matāra āl;
The lake became dark and dark again as he fell.
anniþen ñi jaxēla janāra;
Soon it became complete darkness.
il ñi anlōki ī il ñi jēwār rūjapēxa ōrra il ñi sāen sū jasāma ī;
When it was light again, the lake had gone and he was in the desert again.
se jān tō ñi mannarien mattatēŋŋien;
One ring to rule them all
se jān tō ñi mappōññien;
One ring to find them
se jān tō ñi mannarien mawwīrēŋŋien;
One ring to bring them all
se jāo mo jarūsīssīke anxāona to jalāīke þō ien anaŋŋāta wā alxien ien anerēλa tō sū antawōri āñ ñi anrūsīsse tō jelūra janahan sū anxārrāonīki ānen ē antūma ē anλāonīke ē anūra anejēxa ē anñākke wā ilnaren;
This device, far from interfering with the law of the Pendulum, in fact permitted its manifestation, for in a vacuum any object hanging from a weightless and unstretchable wire free of air resistance and friction will oscillate for eternity.
ñi jacēla jahūwa;
'The bowl is broken' or 'The bowl broke.'
ñi sāen rā jamāonre;
He is/went to the city
ñi sāen rū jamāonre;
He is from the city
ñi sāen matāra;
He is/has fallen.
ñi anēlki ankehāri tō ancālli;
The heat melted the ice.
temme ansōri ien ñi rūjapēxa cī;
She said the words to her: 'Go away!'
ñi lepīra ēnne rūjapēxa;
I lost two teeth.
il ñi jāo il ñi jañāoseni jakāni wā;
This is what happens when the towels aren’t folded.
ñi jakerāka jēnēie tō jacāēl;
Flesh-colored pigment is made from clay.
ñi liēn makūñante tō anhōhi anhēhūñi;
I’m sated from all the good food.
ñi sāen samāna;
He's bleeding.
ñi sapāta;
Someone farted.
la liēn sū anālhāri anālri jahāwa ñi antāoni anhūwi rūjapēxa;
I am at the edge of the stormy sea, and the breaking waves retreat away.
la jāo pa anhē ja ñi antāoni antāλi rūjapēxa;
This is a good thing, the wild waves retreat away.
ñi nāra lemōra ñi antāoni antāλi rūjapēxa;
All my dreams become the wild waves retreat away.
se jīxōsa cī ānen anwālte annāra il anpēxeni ī ñi rūjapēxa;
Let's passionately look again while the last of them again retreat away.
il talōnte tiēlen ñi le rā jahāwekien nō il ñi lerāka jawāna sū jakīþa ja pa antēnnā ōl;
Yesterday I was going along the beach when I moved with a false step on top of a rock with the ability to talk.
ñi sāen maxēie;
She fell asleep.
ñi sāen rājanō ānen antānre;
She went to it swiftly.
ñi jatū lā;
It flies!
ñi liēnne matūrja sū jamūra;
We jumped up and down on the bed.
ñi liēn matāra lā; sele jacē ien ñi masērre cī;
I've fallen down! [Someone] help me stand up.
ñi jahāþa rā jatōna ālme tōkēñ; tō ñi rājakiē;
Why did the "chicken" cross the road? To get to the other side.
il ñamma jacēha ja ñi sāen rā jakērþe ōl nō ā macūma il ñi jakērþe jasērre tō jōrwe ēnne;
The man attempted to get up on the horse when the horse stood up on two legs
ē ñi jakērþe rū macūma pēxa ī ñi sāen mañāka;
The horse moved away from the man and attacked him.
se jarūlōn to jakērþe ī ñi jakērþi ōraen rā xō;
The horse gave a cry and then thousands of horses arrived.
tō ñi jarāki rā macūma ōl tō jakērþi tō jāo ñi macūma manōña;
The horses stepped on the man and therefore the man died.
ñi jatēnnīke ja pa jakīren riēnne;
You (two) are joined to the clan.
ñi sāen rātāsa ānen anānte;
She went to market happily
sele jaþēra to wā ñi lēim rātāsa;
I'm relieved we're not going to the market.
ñi sarōña jelūra tō jasēnette janīra;
His eyes hung on a sēnette tree branch.
tō wā pa sāen ancē ja ñamma maþāli wā tō jāo ñi sāen rūjapēxa;
He did not have the ability to catch them so he left.
sele jalōþen ien āl sele jekīþa ien ñi jajēri jahīji þō lā;
I am shocked to now know that games of chance are happening here!
tele jatēpa tō jāo ñi rātāsa;
I felt lonely so I went to the marketplace.
il pa anālmañen sāim il teteñ jalūhi il ñi ankiēnarrāni tiēlen;
They were feeling connected when they helped each other during the earthquake.
rēha ñi sāim rā āe jatāsa āe jakērroþa;
They will go to either the market or the temple.
il ñi liēn rātāsa il ñi rākēra;
When I go to the market then I go to the temple.
pa antēññexa liēn; ē sele jawasāon to ja ñi jakēwīke jatūste jatōrren ī sele jakesāo to ja ñi jatōrren ī;
I am conflicted. I don't want to do homework and I really want it done also.
il ñi sāen mawaxāon il selme jakekōrja;
He became confused when I was explaining to him.
il ñi jakekōrja jawaxāon il antielen jūsīña ānor;
The explanation became confusing after 10 "minutes".
il jaliþa ñi liēn jarēþa;
Today I am making a journey.
il jaliþa ñi liēnne rā jarēña nō;
Today we walked along the river.
il jaliþa ñi liēn marēþa;
Today I am a traveler.
ñi þō jakīþa tō jakīþi jīþi nā;
This rock is made from many other rocks.
ñi jasāma jamāλa il antārranni il antielen;
The desert becomes green during rain and afterwards.
ñi antaxōni cī;
Fiat lingua!
la anxēie ñe mamōīñ maketāλen ma ē ñi rā sāeþ ma sexe jakīñen wā ē wā ñi rā sāeþ ma sexe jakīñen lā;
Sleep is a mischievous boy who goes to those who do not desire it and does not go to those who desire it.
il ñi liēþ rā anālhāri il jīlpēneha;
We go to the ocean in Spring.
la jalāeþa jarōllōl ewaþ ñi liēþ rā jalāe ālme;
The mountain pass is snow-covered but we cross the mountain.
il ñi liēþ rā anmāxxānwi nīkan jarēlān jēspe il ñi anālhāri ansēlni;
We go to a wide plain with a continuing wind when we make sight of the ocean.
il ñi liēþ rāmāra il jīlcīlre;
We go home in the Winter.
ñi jakāellīñ jarēspe sū janūwa ī;
The kāellīñ was stirring in the corner again.
sū mamō salōmme ñi matūmse manīsen marēwa;
In the young man's arms, the carved tūmse was awake.
samma japēlti mo jaxēxi ja ē ñi jarewēλi ī ñi jahūwi ī ñi jasēþa ñe jawēlrienāl rū jatāsa λi xēþa āñ;
It was barking at the plumes of smoke which were twisting and breaking and making a knot like a piece of interlace around the Iron market-square.
ewaþ ñi ē antiēleni nāra anrūēñi ē anērre ī;
Yet all past events were forgotten and pride, too.
ñi þō jēhe cī;
Let this be truth.
iēlte ñi macēna maxōλa rā jatōna nō sū jatāna ōl;
Once upon a time a beautiful woman was going along a road above the river.
ñamma jacērja ja semme jasōri rēha ā λi tānre ma ñi malāmen;
Tānre, who was hiding, decided he would say something to her.
sele jakīña ien ñi jatēnnīke ja pa liēr;
I wish that we were joined in marriage.
sere jakīña ien ñi jatēnnīke ja pa liēr kēñ;
You wish that we were joined in marriage?
ñamma jatāŋŋi ānen antānre il aþ ñi sanārme rā jatāna anhāri tā;
She quickly made punctures and then his body went into the river's water.
temme ē jaþēλi ien jakā ānen ansāorīki ien jaxūna ānen anrūēli ī xiēn jē jāxīsse jīlke ī jāo ja la sūjatā ē jāo sūjōl ien jiēxa ānen jasēsi ī jōrrisi ē jatatēn ien ñi jīlkena cē jaþārre ōrra ē jawāññerāñi jīþi nā ī;
He taught the usage of consonants, the pattern of vowels, and concerning the writing line and that which is above and that below; the usefulness of dots and end-marks, and explained 'c' becoming leaning, and many other mysteries also.
il ōrralon ñi jarewēλecāwāŋŋi ā jawēlrūlri rū jaxēwepōma āñ;
In the afternoon the wēlrūlri make rewēλecāwāŋŋi around the xēwepōma
se jarāŋŋen mo jatēññāntetūrāŋŋeni; ñi japiēlkāhi tō jarōhāþi lā;
The tēññāntetūrāŋŋeni are annoyed; the rōhāþi make piēlkāhi!
to makīmaþālen masāknenūren to macūcū matū ñi ma rū ma pēxa cī;
the explosively angry kīmaþālen, the cūcū bird - away from them be.
tō jāo sema jaþēλa mo sāen ma ñi maþārre matōrja sū jasātsātena tā;
Therefore he thought, he who was leaning and still under the sātsātena.
il jīla þō ñi macāppacāe matāλisse rā xō rā jamēþena jaxēla kiē;
At this moment, the mercurial cāppacāe came to there through the dark woods.
ānen sarōña janāola ñi jaxīra ñe ankālli ankālleni anūmi nā;
With his eyes aflame, making a noise like very loud bubbles bursting.
ñi sāen marūsa ramāra nīkan sōlle jakeþāwa ānen anhēnārtānre nā;
He returned home together with the separated head very properly-hastily
semme ke mawēsa ien ñi macāppacāe maλāta kēñ; ñi riēn rā þō lelōmme cī;
Uncle says to him: cāppacāe is killed? You come here to my arms.
samma ke mamārienne mānte ien hāle hāleie ñi jamārwakie jalōna þō;
Joyful and laughing he says hāle hāleie this is a wondrous day.
ñi sāen mapēxa;
She's far away.
tō ñi janēma jahūwa tō ñi jajīlne hēja;
The egg has broken so it should be eaten.
il jaliþa il jīstūi ōraen ōraen il antielen il ñi ē mārjanen jē mētūmi nāra ē mārjanen jē makīmi nāra rā xō;
One day 10,000 10,000 years later, the Grandmother of all the ētūma and the Grandmother of all the Kīma came there.
ē cēja ñi liēnne rā jalāe īr ī selne janahan sū āke mo lerōña;
We two can go behind the mountain and see whatever is yonder."
ñi mārjanen jē mētūmi ānen antū rā jalāe īr ānen antānre ŋō;
The Grandmother of the ētūma went flying to behind the mountain with great speed.
ñi mārjanen jē makīmi ānen anrāka rā jalāora ōl ānen antānre ām;
The Grandmother of the Kīma went stepping up the hillside with sufficient speed.
il jahōλen wā antielen il ñi mārjanen jē mētūmi ānen antū rā xō ī;
Not a long while later, the Grandmother of the ētūma came flying there again.
samma ke makīþa mōna ien sele jatēpa nā to wā ñi liēn rā jalāe īr;
The big rock said, "I am so lacking from not having gone behind the mountain."
il jahōλa antielen il ñi mārjanen jē makīmi ānen anrāka rā xō ī;
Two and a half hours later, the Grandmother of Kīma came stepping there again.
samma ke makīþa mōna ien sele jatēpa wā to wā ñi liēn rā jalāe īr;
The big rock said, "I am not lacking from not having gone behind the mountain."
ñi sāen rā mārja ma la sū anālhāri nū;
She went to the ārja who was by the sea.
semme ke mārja ien ñi rimēλa rā liēn nō kā;
The ārja said to her, "Young one, come here to me.
semme jerrasōr ke macēna ien λi mārjahēna ñi liēn rā þō tō tūaþ ñi anānīke jē jērān ja la sū anālhāri nū tō sema antēleni;
The woman answered, "O ārja, I've come here in order to join the guild that is by the sea, to learn."
ñi macēna rāmāra rā makīri mēspi;
The woman went back to her waiting kin.
luhañen selirte ien tele mo lerōña ien ñi mārja rāēlkie;
I am always saying I saw the ārja go south.
sere mo rirōña ien ñi mēli rāēlkie ānen jahēra;
You saw people going south in a ship.
ñi mārja sāim nīkamma il ñi sāen manōña tiēlen;
The ārja was with them while she was dying.
pa ñiēþ jīlwerrenle anxōnne ja ñi anλāta;
Our flag means death.

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