41. Past intervals of time are expressed by sudah, which, when used in this sense, has no English equivalent. Examples: sudah ampat hari orang itu mati, that man has been dead four days; sudah brapa lama tuan sdia? how long have you been ready? lama sudah, a long time.
VOCABULARY.
NOUNS. |
ADVERBS. |
| hujan, rain. | pagi-pagi, early. |
| jam, hour. | pukol brapa? what time is it? |
| pagi, morning. | |
| papan, plank. | sampai, until. |
| tahun, afternoon. | |
| tngah hari, noon. | ADJECTIVES. |
| tngah malam, midnight. | basah, wet. |
PRONOUN. |
glap, dark. |
| orang, one (indef. pron.). | lama, old (of things). |
ADVERBS. |
lambat, late, slow. |
| ini hari, to-day. | pnat, tired, weary. |
| lama, long (of time). | tua, old (of living creatures). |
EXERCISE VIII.
1 What time is it now. 2 Nearly one o'clock. 3 It has been dark a long time. 4 How much longer will it rain like this? 5 How long have these planks been wet like this? 6 Two hours and three quarters. 7 A quarter to three. 8 As late as this one is sure to be tired. 9 Twenty-five minutes to twelve. 10 This morning at half past four. 11 Three o'clock in the afternoon. 12 From noon until twenty minutes past four.
LESSON IX.
The Verb.
42. Verbs in Malay may be divided into two classes, primitive and derivative.
Primitive verbs are those which are verbs in their root forms.
Derivative verbs are formed from roots which may be verbs, substantives, adjectives, or any other parts of speech, by the addition of prefixes or suffixes, or both.
The verb has generally the same position in the sentence as in English.
