Sentence Breakdown Examples

Exercise 1.1

Celebrinor badrast belah i·felais na Forlond, i·felyth felechiasser boe ñguin a maew agóner viñ gwae.
Celebrinor walked along the shores of Forlond, the waves splashed on the stones and gulls cried out in the wind.

Celebrinor
Celebrinor

ristar
cut

yrch
orcs

en·Edhel chîr garas.
The elf finds a city.

en·Edhel
The elf

chîr
finds

garas
[a] city

Sílon.
I shine.

Sílon
Shine-I

en·Aran dîr aew.
The king watches birds.

en·Aran
The king

dîr
watches

aew
[a bird] birds

Ab oer neledh glennad, odúler na nan, ias hîr loethast n' e·‘aear.
After three days of traveling, they came to a valley where a river bends toward the sea.

Ab
After

oer
days

neledh
three

glennad
[of] traveling

odúler
came-they

n’
to

nan
[a] valley

ias
where

hîr
[a] river

loethast
bends

n’
towards

e·‘aear
the sea