LESSON FIVE — Ci, Ca, Cu, Co, Ce

ci, ca and cu form a pattern. They mean, respectively, "here" (near the speaker), "there" (near the person addressed), and "there" (remote from both the speaker and the person addressed).

go sta ci.

I am here.

zi sta ca.

You are there.

da sta cu

He is over there.

With sa, they form demonstrative adjectives:

cisa hon tem snapoleonzo.

This book is about Napoleon.

casa kanin pa tsanku gosa felin.

That (near you) dog bit my cat.x

cusa poljin xaw zi.

Yonder cop is looking at you.

They can combine with ba to make demonstrative pronouns:

ciba bi to hon hu go pa tor.

This is the book I wrote.

ciq don caba ko go.

Please give that (thing near you) to me.

xayn ke cuba bi gosa pawgarm.

It seems that yonder thing is my shoe.

CO

co is an odd little word that works very much like the word "co" in Glosa. It means "What has just been said."

kyu zi tayar?

Are you ready?

co hay

That's right.

da bi kanin. spi co, da kyer felin.

He is a dog. Nevertheless (in spite of that) he likes cats.

to poljino ten gasa famli. kaw co, da dwel gasa dom.

The policeman has a big family. Therefore (because of that) he lives in a big house.