Cjapât dai carabinîrs il sassin dal pensionât di otante agns

Cjapât dai carabinîrs il sassin dal pensionât di otante agns: Al à ametût di jessi stât lui a copâlu, pôc dopo di jessi stât arestât a Monfalcon. Si trate di un triestin di cuaranteun agns, cjapât dai carabinîrs di Padue vie pe gnot passade dentri de cjase de morose, dopo ricercjis ladis indenant par almancul doi dîs tra Venit, Trentin e Friûl-Vignesie Julie. L’om nol à fat resistence e ur à contât ai agjents di vê copât il pensionât. Il cuarp de vitime al jere stât cjatât sierât dentri di doi sacs platâts intun armâr doi dîs indaûr, dentri de sô abitazion a Limena, in provincie di Padue. Su la fonde di ce che al à contât, dut al è tacât cuntune barufe tra i doi oms, che a jerin a stâ te stesse abitazion. I aciertaments fats dal miedi legâl a fevelavin dal fat che il sassin al veve agjît cun ferocitât, spacant il cuel de vitime. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.

Murderer of eighty-year-old pensioner caught by carabinîrs: He admitted to being the one who killed him shortly after being arrested in Monfalcone. He is a forty-one-year-old Triestrine man, apprehended by the Padova carabinîrs last night inside his girlfriend’s house, following searches conducted for at least two days across Veneto, Trentino and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The man offered no resistance and told the officers he had killed the pensioner. The victim’s body had been found sealed inside two bags hidden in a wardrobe two days ago, in his home in Limena, in the province of Padova. Based on his account, it all started with an argument between the two men, who were living in the same residence. The medical examiner’s findings indicated that the killer had acted with ferocity, breaking the victim’s neck.

Preso dai carabinieri l’assassino del pensionato di ottanta anni: Ha ammesso di essere stato lui a ucciderlo... / Read an Italian and Friulian version side by side: see number 2.

Friulian vocabulary

• un sassin, a murderer
• un pensionât, a pensioner, retiree
  
• copâ, to kill
• una morose, a girlfriend
• un cuarp, a body
• sierât dentri, sealed inside
• platât, to hide
• un armâr, a wardrobe
• une barufe, an argument
• un miedi legâl, a medical examiner
• cun ferocitât, with ferocity
  
• spacâ, to break
• il cuel, the neck
• la vitime, the victim
  

Friulian pronunciation

Tonic stress falls on the accented syllable in the following words: sassìn, vìtime.

Scuintri frontâl, il vuidadôr al à invadût chê altre corsie

Scuintri frontâl a Daviàn par cause di un vuidadôr cjoc in bale: Scuintri frontâl îr tor la une e vincj dopomisdì tra une Honda, di chês dopradis di Google Maps par fâ lis fotografiis dal teritori, e une Fiat che e rivave di chê altre bande. Intal fâ une curve, il vuidadôr de Honda al à invadût chê altre corsie, cjapant in plen la machine vuidade di un om di setantesiet agns che, dopo dal bot, e je lade a sbati cuintri dal murut che al cor in bande de strade; l’automobilist al è restât blocât dentri, tant che par tirâlu fûr a son rivâts daurman i pompîrs adun cui sanitaris, che lu àn puartât tal ospedâl di Pordenon. Il vuidadôr de Google Car, un om di trentevot agns di Fontanefrede che nol stave lavorant in chel moment, no si è fat nuie, ma cuant che i carabinîrs i àn fat fâ l’alcoltest, a àn scuviert che al jere positîf cun valôrs trê voltis plui alts di chei permetûts. L’om al jere cussì cjoc che adiriture si è metût a urinâ denant dai carabinîrs. Pal om cjoc in bale, patente puartade vie e une denunzie penâl. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.

Head-on collision in Daviàn due to a sozzled drunk driver: A head-on collision occurred yesterday at about one twenty in the afternoon between a Honda, one of those used by Google Maps to take photographs of the area, and a Fiat coming from the opposite direction. While navigating a curve, the driver of the Honda veered into the other lane, striking the car driven by a seventy-seven-year-old man head-on; after the impact, the Fiat crashed into the low wall alongside the road. The driver was trapped inside, requiring firemen and paramedics to arrive immediately to extricate him, after which he was taken to the hospital in Pordenon. The driver of the Google Car, a thirty-eight-year-old man from Fontanefrede who was not working at the time, was unharmed, but when the carabinîrs performed a breathalyser test, they found he was positive with alcohol levels three times above the legal limit. The man was so drunk that he even began urinating in front of the carabinîrs. For the sozzled drunk driver, licence revoked and criminal complaint.

Scontro frontale ad Aviano a causa di un conducente ubriaco fradicio: Scontro frontale ieri intorno all’una e venti del pomeriggio tra una Honda... / Read an Italian and Friulian version side by side: see number 9.

Friulian vocabulary

• un scuintri frontâl, a head-on collision
• cjoc in bale, drunk out of one's mind
• une corsie, a lane
• invadi, to invade {to veer into}
• cjapâ in plen, to strike head-on
• un bot, an impact
• sbati cuintri, to crash into
• un murut, a low wall
  
• blocât dentri, trapped inside
• un pompîr, a fireman
• un sanitari, a paramedic
  
• scuvierzi, to discover
• urinâ, to urinate
• une patente, a driving licence
• une denunzie penâl, a criminal complaint

Friulian pronunciation

Tonic stress falls on the accented syllable in the following words: corsìe, denùnzie.

FAKE NEWS: Al romp la vetrine di une farmacie e al incendie lis supostis cuintri de fiere

Ancjemò un episodi di violence, indulà che un cjoc deventât piroman al à tirât un modon cuintri de vetrine di une farmacie, par dopo incendiâ lis supostis cuintri de fiere. Un vecjut che al stave passant di chês bandis al è stât cjapât des sclesis di veri, ma no si è fat nuie. Il vecjut di otantecuatri agns nus à contât: «E cussì a ’stu chi i j ài dita che li supostis no ’cor sçaldâlis prima». Dopo dal fat, il cjoc di trente agns al varès cirût di scjampâ, ma la femine dal vecjut, une siore in gjambe a dispiet dai siei otantetrê agns, e jere vignude fûr de farmacie par blocâ il delincuent cul baston fin ae rivade des fuarcis dal ordin. I poliziots a àn vût il lôr ce fâ: il delincuent, cussì cjoc che al jere lât in asêt, al stave dant di mat e al dave jù cuintri dai agjents. Cuant che a àn rivât a calmâlu e puartâlu vie, la siore intimpade, stufe de situazion, e à batût lis mans. / r.p.

Another episode of violence, where a drunkard turned arsonist threw a brick at a pharmacy window, and then set fire to fever-reducing suppositories. A little old man who was passing that way was hit by shards of glass, but he was not hurt. The eighty-four-year-old man told us: “And so I said to this ’ere fella, you don’t gotta heat suppositories up first.” After the incident, the thirty-year-old drunk reportedly tried to flee, but the little old man’s wife, a spright lady despite her eighty-three years, had come out of the pharmacy to stop the offender with her cane until law enforcement arrived. The policemen had their hands full: the offender, so drunk that he had turned to vinegar, was acting like a madman and lashing out at the officers. When they managed to subdue him and take him away, the elderly lady, fed up with the situation, clapped her hands. / r.p.

Al rive il cjalt e i piromans a jentrin in azion sul Cjars

Al rive il cjalt e i piromans a jentrin in azion sul Cjars: Doi intervents, un daûr di chel altri, pai pompîrs di Mugle e di Opicina. Tor des dôs dal dopomisdì, une scuadre dai pompîrs di Mugle e je intervignude dilunc di une strade blancje par distudâ un fûc. A pene rivâts, i pompîrs a àn daurman distudât lis flamis, rivant cussì a blocâlis prime che a cjapassin il bosc, par dopo bonificâ dute la zone. Un altri intervent al è stât fat di une scuadre dai pompîrs di Opicina dilunc de autostrade, ancje li parcè che si jere impiât un fûc tal bruscjam. Il fat che a vedin dât daurman l’alarme, dutun cu la rivade svelte dai pompîrs, al à permetût di distudâ i fûcs prime che a cjapassin il bosc. Al somee dut câs strani che chei fûcs si sedin impiâts pal cjalt, che nol è avonde fuart, e al podarès jessi cualchi piroman in azion, come che al è sucedût tai agns passâts. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.

The heat arrives and arsonists go into action on the Karst: Two interventions, one after the other, for the firemen of Mugle and Opicina. At about two in the afternoon, a team of firemen from Mugle intervened along an unpaved road to extinguish a fire. As soon as they arrived, the firemen immediately put out the flames, thus managing to stop them before they reached the forest, and then cleared the entire zone. Another intervention was carried out by a team of firemen from Opicina along the highway, also there because a fire had started in the brushwood. The fact that the alarm had been raised immediately, together with the quick arrival of the firemen, allowed for extinguishing the fires before they might reach the forest. It seems nonetheless strange that these fires should have started due to the heat, which is not intense enough, and there could be some arsonists at work, as has happened in past years.

Due interventi, uno dopo l’altro, per i pompieri di Muggia e di Opicina. Intorno alle due del pomeriggio... / Read an Italian and Friulian version side by side: see number 2.

Friulian vocabulary

• il cjalt, the heat
• un piroman, an arsonist
• in azion, in action, at work
• une scuadre, a team
• une strade blancje, an unpaved road
• distudâ un fûc, to extinguish a fire
• une flame, a flame
• cjapâ il bosc, to take on the forest
• bonificâ, to clear, to clean up
• impiâ un fûc, to light a fire
  
• la rivade svelte, the quick arrival
  
• il bruscjam, the brushwood
• avonde fuart, strong enough

Sul Cjars: on the Karst {plateau}. This is a plateau region extending across the Slovene-Italian border.

Une strade blancje: This is an unpaved road, in opposition to a paved one, which, in Friulian, is: l’asfalt. The unpaved road may be surfaced by gravel or dirt, lighter coloured than asphalt, as can be seen in the image below, whence the term: strade blancje (literally, ‘white road’). Example: Par rivâ tal asfalt nus tocje fâ un chilometri di strade blancje (to get to the paved road, we have to go along one kilometre of unpaved {gravel, dirt} road). For information: If we were to say this same example sentence in the Dograva variant of Friulian, we obtain: Par rivâ tal asfalt a ni toça fâ un chilometro di strada blança.

Cualchi: some, a few, a certain number of. The noun that follows must always be set in the singular. Examples: cualchi piroman (some arsonists); cualchi fûc (some fires); cualchi bosc (some forests); cualchi arbul (some trees); cualchi miluç (some apples).

Impiâ: to light. Also: piâ. Examples: impiâ un fûc (to light a fire, to start a fire); impiâ un spagnolet, impiâ un sigaret (to light a cigarette); durmî cu la television impiade (to sleep with the television on); i lens secs si son impiâts daurman (the dry firewood caught fire immediately).

Distudâ: to extinguish, to put out. Also: studâ. Examples: i pompîrs a àn distudât il fûc (the firemen have put out the fire); distudâ un spagnolet, distudâ un sigaret (to put out a cigarette); distudâ la lûs (to turn off the light); distudâ il motôr (to turn off the motor).

Friulian pronunciation

Tonic stress falls on the accented syllable in the following words: piròman, bruscjàm. In the masculine plural, the t is not pronounced in: rivâts, impiâts, which sound like rivâs, impiâs; it is of course pronounced in the masculine singular: rivât, impiât.

Jù cu la machine par plui di cuindis metris intun sdrup

Cu la machine jù par un sdrup a Polcenic, salvade dai tecnics dal Socors alpin: Une femine di cincuantedoi agns e je lade fûr strade vuê di matine, tor undis, a Mezamont di Polcenic. La femine, che e je a stâ inte zone, e stave passant dilunc di une strade no asfaltade cuant che e à pierdût il contrôl de machine, lant jù par plui di cuindis metris intun sdrup, par dopo fermâsi in belance suntun arbul. La femine no si è fate nuie, ancje se e jere plene di pôre cuant che a son rivâts sul puest i Vigjii dal Fûc. A àn peât il veicul cun cuardis di açâl par metilu in sigurece, prime che al les jù ancjemò tal straplomp. Daspò i tecnics dal Socors alpin a son lâts jù cu lis cuardis par recuperâ la femine. A son coventadis dôs oris in dut. Sul puest ancje il personâl dal elisocors: la femine, dopo une visite mediche, e je stade puartade vie de ambulance bande dal ospedâl di Pordenon par altris aciertaments. Sul puest ancje i carabinîrs. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.

With her car down a ravine in Polcenic, saved by Alpine Rescue technicians: A fifty-two-year-old woman went off the road this morning, at about eleven, in Mezamont di Polcenic. The woman, who lives in the area, was driving along an unpaved road when she lost control of her car, going down more than fifteen metres into a ravine, then coming to a precariously balanced stop against a tree. The woman was unharmed, though she was panic-stricken when the fire brigade arrived at the scene. They bound the vehicle with steel cables to secure it, before it might go farther down into the abyss. Then the Alpine Rescue technicians went down with ropes to recover the woman. It took two hours in total. Also at the scene was the helicopter rescue team: the woman, after a medical check-up, was taken by ambulance to Pordenon hospital for further evaluation. Carabinîrs were also at the scene.

Friulian vocabulary

• un sdrup, a ravine
• lâ fûr strade, to go off the road
• jessi a stâ, to live, to reside 
• pierdi il contrôl, to lose control
  
• fermâsi, to come to a stop
• in belance, precariously balanced
• plen di pôre, full of fear
• peâ, to bind, to tie
  
• une cuarde, a rope
• meti in sigurece, to secure, to make safe
  
• un straplomp, an abyss
• coventâ, to be required
  
• une visite mediche, a medical check-up

(1) Lâ fûr {di} strade: to go off the road; here used in a literal sense. Also used figuratively in reference to immoral behaviour, especially in the Bible in Friulian. Example (2): a jerin ducj fûr di strade (literally, they were all off the way, which is to say that they had all gone morally astray). Another example (3): o vin pecjât, o vin fat mâl, o sin lâts fûr di strade (we have sinned, we have done wrong, we have gone off the way {gone morally astray}). 

To say the above according to the Dograva variant of Friulian: (1) zî fôr di strada; (2) a erin duçus fôr di strada; (3) i vin peçât, i vin fat mâl, i sin zûts fôr di strada. Zî (to go): the z takes the sound present in English words such as zoo, zap, zero. Some writers prefer to use ’s when this sound appears at the beginning of a word: ’sî, rather than zî. (Either way, zî and ’sî are pronounced alike.) Example: i sin ’sûts fôr da la sitât (we went out of the city). Moreover, some may even drop the t in the writing of the masculine plural past participle, given that it is not pronounced: i sin ’sûs fôr da la sitât.

I poliziots a doprin il taser par cuietâ un om, cjoc in bale e rabiôs

La polizie e dopre il taser par cuietâ un cjoc: Om di cincuante agns, cjoc in bale e rabiôs. E cussì, a un om di Udin, miercus sore sere, i è tocjade la esperience di cjapâ une scjarie di energjie eletriche cul taser. Lu àn doprât i poliziots de cuesture di Udin, clamâts parcè che un om al stave dant di mat e al dave jù cuintri di chei che a passavin di chês bandis. Il fat al è sucedût juste di front di une farmacie: i poliziots, rivâts daurman sul puest, a àn evitât altris problemis, ma a àn vût il lôr ce fâ par cuietâ il cjoc, tant che un dai poliziots al è colât par tiere intant che al cirive di imobilizâ il sfolmenât. L’om al è stât arestât cu la acuse di resistence a uficiâl public e po puartât in cuesture. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.

Police use taser to subdue a drunk: Fifty-year-old man, utterly drunk and furious. And so, on Wednesday at dusk, a man from Udin experienced receiving a charge of electric energy from a taser. It was used by policemen from the Udin police headquarters, called because a man was acting crazed and lashing out at passers-by. The incident took place right in front of a pharmacy: the policemen, arriving immediately at the scene, prevented further issues, but had their hands full trying to subdue the drunk, so much so that one of the policemen fell to the ground while attempting to immobilise the lunatic. The man was arrested on charges of resisting a public official and then taken to the police station.

La polizia usa il taser per calmare un ubriaco: Uomo di cinquanta anni, ubriaco fradicio e furibondo. E così... / Read an Italian and Friulian version side by side: see number 1.

Friulian vocabulary

• un poliziot, a policeman
• la polizie, the police
• doprâ il taser, to use a taser
• cuietâ un cjoc, to subdue a drunk
• cjoc in bale, drunk out of one’s mind
  
• rabiôs, furious, enraged
  
• sore sere, at dusk
  
• une scjarie, a charge, a load
  
• dâ di mat, to lose it, to act out
  
• dâ jù cuintri di, to lash out at
  
• une farmacie, a pharmacy
• vê il so ce fâ, to have one’s hands full
• colâ par tiere, to fall to the ground
• un sfolmenât, a lunatic, a madman
  
• puartâ in cuesture, to take to the police station

Friulian pronunciation

Tonic stress falls on the syllable marked by the accent in the following words: poliziòt, polizìe, scjàrie, farmacìe, cuestùre.

FAKE NEWS: Cjoc patoc, un paiaç di circ al vuide cu la sô machine in cuintri man par 13 km

Par un pêl nol à causât un incident une vore brut l’om intimpât che, intal prin dopomisdì di îr, al à vuidât cu la sô machine in cuintri man par tredis chilometris dilunc de autostrade. L’om, che al jere stravistût di paiaç di circ, al vuidave a dute velocitât. La polizie stradâl e à tacât a ricevi cetantis telefonadis di int che e contave di un paiaç trascurât, cu la piruche stuarte e cul zigar in bocje, che al vuidave cuintri man su la corsie di sorpàs. I agjents a àn daurman blocât il trafic in spiete che il paiaç al fos cjapât di une patulie. In pôcs minûts, a àn rivât a fâ meti in bande la machine cun dentri il paiaç di otantecinc agns; al jere in stât confusionâl, sot dal efiet di sostancis alcolichis. Une sene pardabon patetiche: il paiaç al jere cussì cjoc patoc che adiriture si è metût a butâ fûr denant dai agjents. Pal paiaç intimpât, che al jere un miracul se al stave in pîts, ritîr imediât de patente di vuide e une multe fuarte. / r.p.

An elderly man who, early yesterday afternoon, drove his car the wrong way for thirteen kilometres along the highway narrowly avoided causing a serious accident. The man, dressed up as a circus clown, was driving at top speed. The highway police began receiving numerous telephone calls from people telling of an unkempt clown, with a lopsided wig and cigar in his mouth, driving the wrong way in the overtaking lane. Agents promptly blocked traffic as they waited for the clown to be caught by a patrol. In just a few minutes, they managed to pull aside the car, inside of which was the eighty-five-year-old clown; he was in a state of confusion, under the effect of alcoholic substances. A truly pathetic scene: the clown was so sozzled that he even started throwing up in front of the agents. For the elderly clown, for whom it was a miracle if he could stand on his feet, immediate revocation of his driving licence and a hefty fine. / r.p.

Autoarticolâts cuintri man, par un pêl no àn provocât un brut incident

Autoarticolâts cuintri man, si è scuasi rivâts ae tragjedie dilunc de autostrade: Par un pêl doi autoarticolâts forescj no àn provocât un brut incident dopo che, par causis ancjemò di sclarî, a àn cjapât in cuintri man il svincul di jessude autostradâl di Tarvis. Subite dopo, cuntune schirie di manovris a risi, a àn cambiade direzion tornant tal sens just, ma a àn metût a risi la lôr incolumitât e chê di tante int che e jere su la strade. Par mieç des tantis segnalazions ricevudis e ancje dai alarmis dai sensôrs di sigurece dilunc de rêt autostradâl, il centri operatîf de polizie stradâl al à cjatât in pôc timp i doi mieçs, che a son stâts blocâts des patuliis dongje di une aree di parcament. Pai doi autiscj, ritîr imediât de patente di vuide, autoarticolâts blocâts par trê mês e multis griviis. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.

Tractor-trailers going wrong way nearly cause tragedy along highway: Two foreign tractor-trailers narrowly avoided causing a serious accident when, for reasons still unclear, they entered the Tarvis highway exit junction in the wrong direction. Immediately afterwards, with a series of risky manoeuvres, they turned back to the correct direction but endangered their own safety and that of many people on the road. Thanks to numerous reports and alerts from safety sensors along the highway network, the traffic police operations centre quickly located the two vehicles, which were stopped by patrols near a parking area. For the two drivers, immediate revocation of their driving licence, tractor-trailers impounded for three months and heavy fines.

Autoarticolati contromano, si è quasi arrivati alla tragedia lungo l’autostrada: Per un pelo due autoarticolati stranieri non hanno provocato un grave incidente... / Read an Italian and Friulian version side by side: see number 10.

Friulian vocabulary

• un autoarticolât, a tractor-trailer
• par un pêl, by a hair
• cuintri man, in the wrong direction
• forest, foreign
• un svincul, junction, interchange
• a risi, risky, at risk
  
• la incolumitât, safety
• un alarme, an alarm
• une rêt, a network
• un mieç, a vehicle
• une patulie, a patrol
• un autist, a driver
• une patente di vuide, a driving licence
• une multe, a fine
• grivi, heavy, severe

Par un pêl no àn provocât un brut incident: by a hair they did not provoke a serious accident, which is to say, they narrowly avoided causing a serious accident. Par un pêl no pierdevi l’autobus: I caught the bus right in the nick of time. Used in the original article on the Vôs website: par un nie (by a trifle); as in: par un nie no àn provocât un brut incident. Nie: two syllables, tonic stress on the first (nìe).

Forest: foreign (as an adjective), foreigner (as a noun). Autist: driver. In the plural, these are: forescj, autiscj. Example: un autist forest (a foreign driver); autiscj forescj (foreign drivers); chescj forescj a son autiscj (these foreigners are drivers).

Svincul di jessude: This translates literally as exit junction or exit interchange, but, in practical terms, what is being referred to in the news report is an exit ramp. This latter term can be translated to Friulian as: une rampe di jessude (an exit ramp), une rampe di jessude autostradâl (a highway exit ramp). Example: al à cjapade la rampe di jessude cuintri man (he took the exit ramp in the wrong direction). 

Patulie: tonic stress falls on the second syllable (patùlie).

Un svincul autostradâl:

FAKE NEWS: Intimelis e mudantis brusadis intune preson, plui agjents puartâts in ospedâl

Flamis e caos intune preson: Intal dopomisdì di îr sul tart, un detignût al à impiât il fûc dentri de sô cele, doprant intimelis e un pâr di mudantis dal so compagn di cele. Il fugaron al è stât distudât di trê agjents de polizie penitenziarie che, par vie dal fum respirât, a àn vût di jessi puartâts in ospedâl; un cuart agjent al è stât puartât in ospedâl ancje lui par colpe di une cjavonade violente e di un pugn cjapât intal voli. Il detignût al è un om di trentevot agns, metût in preson par vie des sôs azions cuintri dai scuelebus de regjon: juste pal gust di dâ fastidi, al veve il costum di taiâur la strade intant che al vuidave la sô motociclete. Par cause di chestis azions psicopatichis, i vuidadôrs dai scuelebus dispès a jerin costrets a fâ manovris par no lâi intor, cun pericul no dome par lôr ma ancje pai scuelârs. Un dai agjents de polizie penitenziarie al à dit: «Si è tratât vuê di une situazion tant pericolose e tant assurde». Il detignût al è lât a finîle in cele di isolament par colpe dal so compuartament incendiari. / r.p.

Flames and chaos in a prison: Late yesterday afternoon, a prisoner started a fire in his cell, using pillowcases and a pair of underwear belonging to his cellmate. The blaze was extinguished by three prison police officers who, due to smoke inhalation, had to be taken to hospital. A fourth officer was also hospitalised due to a violent headbutt and punch to the eye. The prisoner is a thirty-eight-year-old man, incarcerated for his actions against regional school buses: for the sheer pleasure of causing trouble, he had a habit of cutting them off while riding his motorcycle. Due to these psychopathic actions, bus drivers were often forced to make manoeuvres to avoid colliding with him, endangering not only themselves but also the pupils. One of the prison police officers said: “The situation today was as dangerous as it was absurd.” The prisoner has ended up in an isolation cell on account of his incendiary behaviour. / r.p.

Om violent arestât, incident mortâl e roste sporcjade

Ultimis gnovis riferidis dal setemanâl La Vôs dai Furlans. Latest news reported by the weekly La Vôs dai Furlans.

1. Arestât un om violent a Udin. Violent man arrested in Udin.

Al è stât puartât in preson un om talian che, par une vore di dîs, al à semenade pôre a Udin, pacant e menaçant la int par strade. Tra i doi e i cuatri di Jugn une cubie di anzians e veve scugnût lâ tal pront socors dal ospedâl par vie des pachis cjapadis inte aree verde Ardito Desio, indulà che, il dì prime, un che al passave di chês bandis al veve cjapât un pugn tal voli dal stes delincuent. Pocjis oris prime, il delincuent al veve pestât doi fantats in place Primo Maggio. Altris segnalazions a son rivadis di San Domenico, li dal Parco di Cemento. Cundut che l’om al veve di rispietâ la improibizion di stâ a Udin, lis violencis a son ladis indenant, tant che al è stât pandût un ordin di custodie cautelâr, permetint ai poliziots di puartâlu dentri.

An Italian man who, for many days, spread fear in Udin, hitting and threatening people in the street, has been taken to prison. Between the second and fourth of June, an elderly couple had to go to hospital emergency due to beatings sustained in the Ardito Desio green space, where, the previous day, a passer-by had been punched in the eye by the same offender. Just a few hours earlier, the offender had beaten two youths in Primo Maggio Square. Additional reports came in from San Domenico, at the Parco di Cemento. Though the man was required to observe a prohibition on his staying in Udin, his violent actions continued, such that a custodial order was issued, allowing policemen to take him in.

Five Friulian usages to learn:

• pacâ, to hit, to strike
• une cubie, a couple
• un pugn tal voli, a punch in the eye
• un poliziot, a policeman
• puartâ dentri, to take in

Cubie: tonic stress falls on the first syllable (cùbie).

2. Incident mortâl a Trasaghis dilunc de autostrade. Fatal accident at Trasaghis along the highway.

Un om todesc di otantecuatri agns al è muart vuê tal prin dopomisdì dilunc de A23 [A-vincjetrê], ae altece di Trasaghis. Par causis ancjemò di sclarî, la vitime, che e vuidave une machine piçule bande Tarvis, al à tamponât une vore fuart la machine denant. Il bot al è stât trement tant che l’om, che al jere di bessôl, al è muart par vie des feridis patidis. No si pues escludi che il vieli al sedi stât cjapât di un mâl.

An eighty-four-year-old German man died today in the early afternoon along the A23, at the height of Trasaghis. For reasons still to be determined, the victim, who was driving a small car towards Tarvis, collided heavily with the car in front. The impact was so severe that the man, who was alone, died due to injuries sustained. It cannot be ruled out that the elderly man was struck by an illness.

Five Friulian usages to learn:

• todesc, German
• vuidâ, to drive
• bande, towards
• tamponâ, to hit, to collide
• un bot, an impact

Dilunc de autostrade ae altece di: along the highway at the height of, which is to say, along the highway at the point where it passes by or through whatever town is named.

3. Cjapâts i vandai che a àn sporcjât la roste a Premariâs. Vandals who defaced the weir in Premariâs caught.

A son stâts fermâts e identificâts i doi vandai in costum di bagn che vuê tal dopomisdì a àn sporcjât la roste a Premariâs. Un citadin al à viodût i doi intant che a pituravin la roste cun bombulutis di colôr; a son rivâts daurman i carabinîrs di Cividât che ju à fermâts pôc lontan. Il sindic al à comentât che une tâl inciviltât no pues jessi lassade cence punizion. Al à ancje visât che propit chê roste e jere stade ogjet di altris danezaments tal passât. Cun di plui de multe, il sindic al spere che i doi a metin dut a puest, che i somee la punizion miôr par cui che al sporcje il ben di ducj.

The two vandals in swimsuits who this afternoon defaced the weir in Premariâs have been apprehended and identified. A citizen saw the two while they were painting the weir with coloured spray cans; carabinîrs from Cividât arrived at once and apprehended them nearby. The mayor commented that such incivility cannot go unpunished. He also noted that this very weir had been subject to other damage in the past. In addition to the fine, the mayor hopes the two will clean everything up, which seems to him the best punishment for those who deface collective property.

La roste sporcjade:

Ten Friulian usages to learn:

• un vandal, a vandal
• sporcjâ, to deface
• une roste, a weir
• un costum di bagn, a swimsuit
• une bombulute, a spray can
• un sindic, a mayor
• il danezament, damage
• une multe, a fine
• meti a puest, to fix/clean up
• la punizion miôr, the best punishment
  

FAKE NEWS: Scuintri fatâl e fughe a pît: cjanut salvât, vuidadôr al mûr in sale operatorie

L’incident sucedût vuê di matine tor des nûf e mieze al è stât trement, tant che al è muart il vuidadôr di une Honda, tamponade di une Renault. Par vie dal bot, la Honda si è capotade, lant a cjâf in jù denant di un cimitieri, propit sot i vôi di une anziane che e veve in man un mac di rosis. Il vuidadôr de Renault, cjoc in bale, al somee che al vedi bandonât la morose, che si jere fate mâl tal puest dal passizîr; al è lât vie a pît, çuetant e inçopedantsi plui voltis, cence nancje controlâ cemût che al stave il vuidadôr in chê altre machine. Sul puest a son rivâts i sanitaris e i pompîrs che a àn lavorât a lunc e cun grande cure par tirâ fûr de machine il vuidadôr de Honda, un om di cuarantedoi agns. Al è stât puartât di corse in ospedâl cul codiç ros; magari cussì no, al è muart in sale operatorie. No je invezit in pericul di vite la femine di vincjecuatri agns restade feride te machine. E jere cjoche ancje jê, tant che adiriture si è metude a barufâ cui cussins di sigurece de machine e a visâ dal incident cun segnâi di fum doprant un spagnolet impiât. Lis vuacadis di un cjanut a àn riclamât la atenzion dai pompîrs; la puare besteute, amì a cuatri çatis dal vuidadôr muart, e jere dentri de Honda al moment dal bot: i pompîrs lu àn lassât intes mans dai volontaris dal socors veterinari. La anziane cul mac di rosis in man e à dit: «Il mont al è doventât mat, çocs cussì a li nôf di bunora. No si pos nença zî a çatâ l’om tal simiteri». / r.p.

The accident that occurred this morning at about nine thirty was so terrible, that the driver of a Honda, hit by a Renault, died. Due to the impact, the Honda overturned, landing upside down in front of a cemetery, right under the eyes of an elderly woman holding a bouquet of flowers. It seems the driver of the Renault, drunk out of his wits, abandoned his girlfriend, who had been injured in the passenger seat; he fled on foot, limping and tripping numerous times, without even checking on the driver in the other car. At the scene arrived paramedics and firemen, who worked at length and with great care to remove the Honda driver, a forty-two-year-old man, from the car. He was rushed to hospital under code red; unfortunately, he died in the operating theatre. As for the twenty-four-year-old woman who remained injured in the car, she is not in life-threatening condition. She too was so drunk that she even began to argue with the car’s airbags and to warn of the accident with smoke signals using a lit cigarette. The barking of a puppy caught the attention of the firemen; the poor little animal, four-legged friend of the dead driver, was inside the Honda at the time of the impact: the firemen left it in the hands of veterinary rescue volunteers. The elderly woman holding the bouquet of flowers said: “The world has gone mad, drunk like that at nine in the morning. You can’t even go visit your husband at the cemetery.” / r.p.

L’incidente accaduto oggi mattina verso le nove e mezza è stato tremendo, tanto che... / Read an Italian and Friulian version side by side: see number 4.

Cjanut colât inte roie, salvât dai pompîrs

I pompîrs a salvin un cjanut colât inte roie a Pordenon: Lis vuacadis di un cjanut, colât intune roie dongje vie Prasecco a Pordenon, a àn riclamât inte matine sul tart di vuê la atenzion di chei che a passavin par li, che a àn clamât daurman i socors. Alertade cussì la sale operative dai Vigjii dal Fûc di Pordenon, che e à mandât sul puest une scuadre. I pompîrs a àn daurman cjatât la puare besteute, aromai cuasi cence fuarcis che no rivave a saltâ fûr de aghe. Doi pompîrs a àn rivât a lâ jù te roie a cjapâlu, par dopo lassâlu intes mans dai volontaris dal socors veterinari. Il proprietari dal cjanut, che lu stave cirint, al è rivât pôc dopo; al à cussì podût tornâ a zontâsi cul so amì a cuatri çatis. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.

Firemen save a puppy fallen into a canal in Pordenon: The barking of a puppy, fallen into a canal near Prasecco Street in Pordenon, caught the attention of passers-by late this morning, who promptly rang for emergency services. The operations room of the Pordenon fire brigade was therefore alerted and sent a team to the scene. Firemen immediately found the poor little animal, by then nearly out of strength and unable to climb out of the water. Two firemen managed to go down into the canal and retrieve it, then left it in the hands of veterinary rescue volunteers. The puppy’s owner, who was searching for it, arrived soon after; he was therefore able to be reunited with his four-legged friend.

Friulian vocabulary

• un pompîr, fireman
  
• un cjanut, puppy
• colâ, to fall
• une vuacade, bark {of a dog}
  
• une roie, irrigation ditch
• une scuadre, team
• aromai, by then, now
  
• la fuarce, strength, force
  
• une besteute, little animal
• une çate, paw, leg {of an animal}
  
• a cuatri çatis, four-legged

Ce ise une roie? Une roie e je un canâl artificiâl di puartade moderade, nassude soredut pe irigazion o par proviodi mulins a aghe e piçulis centrâls eletrichis. In Friûl ind è une vore, grandis e piçulis, a voltis cussì piçulis di someâ riui. What is a roie? It is an artificial canal with moderate flow, created primarily for irrigation or to power water mills and small hydroelectric plants. In Friûl there are many of them, large and small, sometimes so small they resemble streams. 

Vuacâ: to bark. Chel cjan al è simpri che al vuache: that dog is always barking. Une vuacade: bark {of a dog}. O soi stât sveât dute la gnot par vie des vuacadis di chel cjan: I was awake all night because of that dog’s barking.

Friulian grammar 

I pompîrs a àn rivât a lâ jù: the firemen managed to go down. Il proprietari al è rivât pôc dopo: the owner arrived soon after. When rivâ means to be able, to manage, the auxiliary vê is used in the compound tenses; when it means to come, to arrive, the auxiliary is rather jessi.

FAKE NEWS: Cuviert lât a fûc par vie di un fulmin, vuidadôr butât fûr de machine

Îr di sere, tor vot e mieze, une cjase a Udin e à cjapât fûc par vie di un fulmin. ll fulmin al à intacât il cuviert, che al è lât par buine part disfat. In chel moment, al jere un om di sessante agns inte cjase su doi plans. Par fortune, l’om al è lât fûr in timp cence fâsi mâl; ma però, viodude la cjase lade a fûc, un vuidadôr di vincjecinc agns al à pierdût il control de sô machine, lant di ca e di là de strade. Al è lât cuintri di un porton par blocâsi dentri dal zardin di une cjase no lontane dal fûc. Par vie dal incident, il vuidadôr al è stât butât fûr, restant però fracât sot de machine che si jere capotade. No dome i pompîrs a àn rivât a evitâ che lis flamis a tacassin il cuviert de cjase dongje, ma a àn ancje lavorât cu lis cisoris idraulichis par liberâ il vuidadôr. Une volte distudât il fûc e il vuidadôr metût suntune barele e puartât daurman in ospedâl, i pompîrs a àn proviodût ae bonifiche de zone disfortunade, puartade insom a dute gnot. / r.p.

Yesterday evening, at about eight thirty, a house in Udin caught fire due to a lightning bolt. The bolt hit the roof, which was largely destroyed. At the time, there was a sixty-year-old man inside the two-storey house. Fortunately, the man escaped in time without sustaining injuries; however, after seeing the house on fire, a twenty-five-year-old driver lost control of his car, zigzagging on the road. He hit a gate and ended up getting stuck in the garden of a house not far from the fire. Due to the accident, the driver was ejected, but got crushed under the car which had overturned. Not only did firemen succeed in preventing the flames from spreading to the roof of the neighbouring house, but they also worked with the jaws of life to free the driver. Once the fire had been extinguished and the driver put on a stretcher and taken immediately to hospital, the firemen undertook a clean-up of the unfortunate area, completed late in the night. / r.p.

Ieri sera, verso le otto e mezza, una casa a Udine ha preso fuoco a causa di un fulmine. Il fulmine ha colpito il tetto... / Read an Italian and Friulian version side by side: see number 3.

Read the report again, this time in the western dialect of Friulian, more precisely that of Dograva (Italian name, Aurava):

Jêr di sera, viers li vot e miesa, una çasa a Udin a à çapât fôc par via di un fulmin. ll fulmin al à intacât il cuviert, ch’al è zût par buna part disfat. In chel moment, al era un om di sessanta ains ta la çasa su doi plans. Par fortuna, l’om al è zût fôr in timp sensa fâsi mâl; ma però, joduda la çasa zuda a fôc, un guidadôr di vinçasinc ains al à pierdût il control da la sô machina, zint di ca e di là da la strada. Al è zût contro un porton par blocâsi dentri dal zardin di una çasa no lontana dal fôc. Par via dal incident, il guidadôr al è stât butât fôr, restant però fracât sot da la machina ch’a si era capotada. No dome i pompiêrs a àn rivât a evitâ che li flamis a tacassin il cuviert da la çasa dongia, ma a àn ença lavorât cu li cisoris idraulichis par liberâ il guidadôr. Una volta distudât il fôc e il guidadôr mitût su di una barela e partât davorman in ospedâl, i pompiêrs a àn projodût a la bonifica da la zona disfortunada, partada insomp a duta not. / r.p.

E à copât l’om a colps di fuarpiis: «Al è stât Satane a domandâmi di copâlu»

Omicidi a Bicinins, femine e cope un amì a colps di fuarpiis: Omicidi îr di sere a Bicinins, indulà che une femine di cuarantedoi agns, residente a Reane dal Roiâl, e à copât a colps di fuarpiis un amì, cuarantedoi agns. La femine, dilunc di une barufe dentri la cjase dal om tor lis vincjeun e trente, e varès doprât prime lis fuarpiis e daspò acit muriatic. La femine po dopo e à clamât i carabinîrs, confessant di vê copât l’om. Arestade vie pe sere di îr sul tart, la femine no à sclarît ai carabinîrs cuâl che al fos il leam cul om, ancje parcè che e jere in stât di confusion. No si cognossin lis resons dal omicidi; su chestis a stan investigant i carabinîrs. La cjase indulà che al è sucedût il fat e je stade metude sot secuestri. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.

Murder in Bicinins, woman kills friend by stabbing with scissors: A murder took place yesterday evening in Bicinins, where a 42-year-old woman, a resident of Reane dal Roiâl, killed a 42-year-old friend by stabbing him with scissors. During an argument inside the man’s home at about 21.30, the woman allegedly used scissors first and then muriatic acid. The woman then called the carabinîrs, confessing to having killed the man. Arrested late last night, the woman did not clarify to the carabinîrs what her relationship to the man was, partly because she was in a state of confusion. The reasons for the murder are unknown; the carabinîrs are investigating. The house where the incident occurred has been placed under sequestration.

Omicidio a Bicinicco, donna uccide un amico a colpi di forbici... / Read an Italian and Friulian version side by side: see number 3.

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La femine che e à copât un om a Bicinins al somee che e vedi dât une gnove version di ce che al è sucedût: «Cuant che lu ài scurtissât, al jere za muart. Forsit un arest cardiac par colpe di une overdose di metadon». La ricostruzion le à fate fevelant al so avocat di fiducie, che e à fevelât cui gjornaliscj. «Prime al faseve suns stranis, dopo cuant che lu ài scurtissât za il so cûr nol bateve», e varès zontât la femine. Cuant che inte cjase dal delit a son rivâts i carabinîrs, la femine, che di agns e je in cure par problemis di droghe, e à contât che al jere stât Satane a domandâi di copâ l’om. Cumò e varà di jessi fate la autopsie. La udience di convalide dal arest e je za previodude par doman. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.

The woman who killed a man in Bicinins seems to have provided a new version of what happened: “When I stabbed him, he was already dead. Maybe a cardiac arrest caused by a methadone overdose.” This account was shared while speaking with her trusted lawyer, who spoke to journalists. “First he was making strange noises, then when I stabbed him, his heart had already stopped beating,” she reportedly added. When the carabinîrs arrived at the house of the crime, the woman, who has been in treatment for drug problems for years, said that it was Satan who had ordered her to kill the man. An autopsy will now need to be performed. The hearing to validate the arrest is already scheduled for tomorrow.

La donna che ha ucciso un uomo a Bicinicco... / Read an Italian and Friulian version side by side: see number 4.

Friulian pronunciation note: Sàtane, with tonic stress on the first syllable.

Ce ise la facoltât di no rispuindi?

Imagine the scenario

Femine cjatade muarte a Pordenon, arestât il vicin di cjase: Svolt intes investigazions sul omicidi de femine cjatade cence segns di vite, intal dopomisdì sul tart di sabide, intal so apartament, cun cuarante scurtissadis di tai e di ponte. Inte sere di vuê al è stât arestât il vicin di cjase de femine, che si cjate cumò in preson. L’om al è stât interogât, ma si è avalût de facoltât di no rispuindi.

Woman found dead in Pordenon, neighbour arrested: Breakthrough in the investigations regarding the murder of the woman found without signs of life, late Saturday afternoon, in her apartment, with forty slash and stab wounds. This evening, the woman's neighbour was arrested and is now in prison. The man was questioned but exercised his right to remain silent.

Ce ise la facoltât di no rispuindi?

Ce ise la facoltât di no rispuindi? La facoltât di no rispuindi e je il dirit di une persone, intant di un interogatori o un procediment legâl, di sielzi di no fevelâ o rispuindi aes domandis, cence che chest al puedi jessi usât cuintri di jê.

What is the right to remain silent? The right to remain silent is the right of a person, during an interrogation or legal proceeding, to choose not to speak or answer questions, without this being used against him.

Friulian vocabulary

• cjatât muart, found dead
• arestât, arrested
• un vicin di cjase, neighbour
• un svolt, breakthrough
• lis investigazions, investigations
• un omicidi, murder
• un segn di vite, sign of life
• intal dopomisdì, in the afternoon
• sul tart, on the late {hour}
• une scurtissade di tai, slash wound
• une scurtissade di ponte, stab wound
• si cjate, he is found
  
• une preson, a prison
• interogâ, to interrogate
• avalêsi di, to avail oneself of
• une facoltât, a faculty, an option
• no rispuindi, not to respond 

Friulian examples related to prison

Al è lât in preson: he has gone to prison. Lu àn arestât è metût in preson: they have arrested him and put him in jail {he has been arrested and put in jail}. L’om al à fat vincj agns di preson: the man did twenty years in prison. L’om al è scjampât di preson: the man has escaped from jail. Il sassin lu àn condanât a preson a vite: they sentenced the murderer to life in prison {the murderer has been sentenced to life in prison}. Al è stât condanât par omicidi: he was convicted of murder. Lu àn molât di preson: they have released him from prison {he has been released from prison}. Al è ai arescj domiciliârs: he is under house arrest. Al puarte il braçalet eletronic: he wears an electronic bracelet.

Dograva variant of Friulian

L’om, ch’al si è avalût da la facoltât di no rispundi, al è il vissin di çasa da la femina. // This sentence has been written in the Dograva variant of Friulian. In what ways is it unlike standardised language?

Une machine e un tratôr cul rimorchi si son dâts cuintri

Vuê di matine tor dîs e mieze une Fiat e un tratôr cul rimorchi si son dâts cuintri a Sedean. Il vuidadôr de machine, restât blocât dentri, al è stât ferît. A àn scugnût intervignî i pompîrs. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.

This morning at about half past ten a Fiat and a tractor with its trailer collided in Sedean. The driver of the car, trapped inside, was injured. The firemen had to intervene.

Understanding the Friulian

E mieze: Used when telling time to refer to the half hour. The z in this word represents the soft g sound (miege), like that of the g in the English word gentle. Examples: tor nûf e mieze (at about half past nine); tor vot e mieze (at about half past eight); spietâ fin siet e mieze (to wait until half past seven).

Un rimorchi: This is a trailer. Example: un tratôr agricul cun rimorchi (a farm tractor with a trailer). This word was encountered recently, when you read a Friulian definition of a TIR, in the matter of contraband cigarettes.

Dâsi cuintri: to collide. Examples: si son dâts cuintri une machine e un tratôr (a car and a tractor have collided); si son dâts cuintri doi camions (two lorries/trucks have collided).

Read another sentence in Friulian: Se il vuidadôr di une machine (if the driver of a car) al è restât blocât dentri (has remained trapped inside), i pompîrs a scuegnin lavorâ (the firemen must work) cu lis cisoris idraulichis (with the jaws of life) par liberâlu (to free him).

Secuestrâts tal puart di Triest dîs chilos di spagnolets di cuintribant

Tal puart di Triest a son stâts secuestrâts dîs chilos di spagnolets di cuintribant. Il caric al jere stât platât dentri dai parecolps dai rimorchis e dai motôrs di doi TIR che jerin partîts dal puart turc di Ambarli. I spagnolets a jerin destinâts al marcjât de Union europeane e a son stadis secuestradis parcè che no vevin lis autorizazions pal cumierç e a jerin ancje plenis di catram e nicotine. I doi vuidadôrs turcs a jerin in viaç bande Belgjiche e Olande. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.

Ten kilos of contraband cigarettes were seized at the Trieste port. The cargo was hidden inside the bumpers of trailers and the engines of two TIR tractor-trailers that had departed from the Turkish port of Ambarli. The cigarettes were intended for the European Union market and were seized because they lacked commercial authorisations and were also full of tar and nicotine. The two Turkish drivers were travelling to Belgium and the Netherlands.

Friulian vocabulary

• un spagnolet, cigarette
• di cuintribant, contraband
  
• il caric, cargo
  
• un parecolps, bumper
• un rimorchi, trailer
• un TIR, a tractor-trailer
• un puart, port
• il catram, tar
• la nicotine, nicotine
• un vuidadôr turc, a Turkish driver

Un parecolps: How can this be defined in Friulian? We may say: Intun veicul, imprest fat di une sbare metaliche o di plastiche une vore dure, che al pare il denant e il daûr dai colps; on a vehicle, component made of a metal bar or very hard plastic that protects the front and rear from impacts. This definition mentions a metal bar; you recently read a story in Friulian involving metal bars: Infortuni sul lavôr une vore brut, operari cjapât sot di ciertis sbaris metalichis.

TIR: sisteme di traspuart internazionâl su strade in Europe; par estension, un TIR al è ancje un autoarticolât, valadì un veicul cuntun semirimorchi, che al fâs chê sorte di traspuart; international road transport system in Europe; by extension, a TIR is also an articulated lorry, which is to say, a vehicle with a semi-trailer, that carries out this sort of transport. To put it simply, a TIR is a tractor-trailer.

Un spagnolet: a cigarette; also used: un sigaret. Examples: fumâ un spagnolet (to smoke a cigarette); tirâ fûr un sigaret (to pull out a cigarette); impiâsi un sigaret (to light oneself a cigarette).

Cisilis sot tutele, no stait a tocjâ i lôr nîts

Cisilis sot tutele, no stait a tocjâ i lôr nîts: La conseire comunâl di Pordenon cun deleghe al benstâ animâl e à metût fûr un apel a pro des cisilis par che no sedin fiscâts i lôr nîts. E à invidât i citadins a segnalâ cui che al disfe i nîts des cisilis, evidenziant che azions cussì a son un reât, cui responsabii che a podaressin jessi incolpâts di danezament, maltratament e fintremai di copament di animâi. L’apel al rive dopo cetantis segnalazions che plui di cualchidun nol à voie di vê i nîts dentri de citât. Si trate soredut di controlâ la situazion in cierts condominis e cjasis, indulà che plui di cualchidun, par no vê a ce fâ cuntun pôc di sporc, al cîr di parâ vie lis cisilis, vitâls pal ecosisteme, cuntun compuartament salvadi. Chest an, su la fonde dal ultin censiment, al somee che a sedin tornadis un pocjis di cisilis in plui, cun cuindis nîts contâts a pet dai cuatri dal an passât, ancje se dome cinc agns indaûr i nîts a jerin passe cuarante. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.

Swallows under protection, do not touch their nests: The Pordenon municipal councillor with responsibilities for animal welfare has issued an appeal in favour of swallows to prevent their nests from being destroyed. She has invited citizens to report those who destroy swallow nests, emphasising that such actions are a crime, with those responsible potentially facing charges of damage, mistreatment, and even killing of animals. The appeal comes after numerous reports according to which some people do not want the nests in the city. This is above all about controlling the situation in certain condominiums and houses, where some individuals, to avoid having to deal with a bit of mess, try to drive away the swallows, vital for the ecosystem, with reckless behaviour. This year, based on the latest census, it seems that a few more swallows have returned, with fifteen nests counted compared to four last year, although just five years ago, there were over forty nests.

Rondini sotto tutela, non toccate i loro nidi: La consigliera comunale di Pordenone con deleghe al benessere animale ha lanciato un appello... / Read an Italian and Friulian version side by side: see number 8.

Friulian usages of note

Une cisile: a swallow. Tonic stress is on the middle syllable: cisìle.

Plui di cualchidun: more than one, which is to say, some people, some individuals. Examples: plui di cualchidun nol à voie di vê i nîts dentri de citât (some people do not want the nests in the city); plui di cualchidun al cîr di parâ vie lis cisilis (some individuals try to drive away the swallows).

Dopo cetantis segnalazions che...: after numerous reports {that, according to which, wherein}... Related: examples of whom in Friulian.

Par no vê a ce fâ cun: to avoid having to deal with. Example: plui di cualchidun al cîr di copâ lis cisilis par no vê a ce fâ cuntun pôc di sporc (some people try to kill the swallows to avoid having to deal with a bit of mess).

Ce fâ: You know how to use this in two different ways, (1) par no vê a ce fâ cuntun pôc di sporc (to avoid having to deal with a bit of mess); (2) i pompîrs a àn vût il lôr ce fâ par cause di doi mieçs lâts a fûc (the firemen had their hands full due to two vehicles that had caught on fire).

Ce sucedial in Friûl? Al è dut un caos...

Ce sucedial in Friûl? What’s happening in Friûl? The text below is a review of events that have occurred in Friûl over the past few days. If you have trouble understanding what has been written here, follow the links to review the language.

Ce sucedial in Friûl? Al è dut un caos... I pompîrs a àn vût il lôr ce fâ par cause di doi mieçs lâts a fûc, un furgon e un camion, involuçâts des flamis in bande de strade. Une notizie fûr dal comun: Al è stât cjapât dai carabinîrs un om che, intant che al vuidave la sô machine, ur taiave la strade aes ambulancis, juste pal gust di dâ fastidi. Une notizie brute: Un operari, par cause di un infortuni sul lavôr, al è stât cjapât sot di ciertis sbaris metalichis; il puar om al è stât ferît in maniere grave. E po une storie di no crodi: Sparît dopo dal taramot dal 76, un libri antîc dal secul XVI al è stât tornât indaûr ae biblioteche.

76: setantesîs
XVI: sedis

Important Friulian usages

• un mieç, a vehicle
• lât a fûc, having caught on fire
  
• un furgon, a van
• un camion, a truck
• taiâ la strade, to cut off
• il gust di, the pleasure of
• dâ fastidi, to annoy
• un operari, a worker
  
• un infortuni sul lavôr, a workplace accident
• une sbare metaliche, a metal bar
• ferît, injured
• un taramot, an earthquake
• tornât indaûr, returned
• un secul, a century
  
• une biblioteche, a library

Dograva variant of Friulian

The following examples are written in the Dograva variant of Friulian. Note the ways in which they are unlike standardised language: Il libri al era sparît dopo dal taramot dal setantaseis. The book had disappeared after the earthquake of seventy-six. Il libri al è stât tornât indavôr a la biblioteca. The book has been returned to the library.

A àn vût il lôr ce fâ vuê di matine i pompîrs, doi mieçs lâts a fûc

Doi mieçs in flamis, a Vilès e Daviàn: A àn vût il lôr ce fâ vuê di matine i Vigjii dal Fûc par cause di doi mieçs lâts a fûc, un furgon e un camion. Il prin câs a Vilès dilunc de autostrade A34 [A trentecuatri]: il vuidadôr si è inacuart che il so mieç al stave cjapant fûc e si è fermât daurman in bande de strade, par dopo clamâ i socors. Cuant che a son rivâts i pompîrs, il furgon al jere dal dut involuçât des flamis, che a stavin tacant ancje il vert in bande de strade. Pôc dopo, tor nûf mancul un cuart a Daviàn, dilunc de strade bande Plancjaval, al à cjapât fûc un camion. Intant che al stave fasint la strade in rive sù, l’autist al à viodût che dal denant dal mieç al vignive fûr fum. Parcât in bande de strade il camion e smontât adun cuntun altri coleghe, l’autist al à domandât daurman jutori, intant che chel altri om al cirive di studâ il fûc cuntun estintôr, ma cence rivâ a fâ masse. Cuant che a son rivâts i pompîrs di Pordenon, dute la cabine dal camion e jere za plene di flamis, ancje par cause di une pierdite di gasoli che al coreve sul asfalt e che al jere rivât fintremai tal bosc. I vigjii, in graciis di une autobote, a àn rivât a studâ il fûc blocant lis flamis prime che a tacassin il bosc. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.

Two vehicles in flames, in Vilès and Daviàn: The fire brigade had their hands full this morning due to two vehicles catching fire, a van and a truck. The first incident occurred in Vilès along the A34 highway: the driver noticed that his vehicle was catching fire and immediately pulled over to the side of the road, then called for help. When the firemen arrived, the van was completely engulfed in flames, which were also catching in the roadside vegetation. Shortly after, at about a quarter to nine in Daviàn, along the road towards Plancjaval, a truck caught fire. As he was going uphill on the road, the driver noticed smoke coming from the front of the vehicle. After parking the truck on the side of the road and getting out with another co-worker, the driver immediately requested assistance, while the other man tried to extinguish the fire with an extinguisher, but with little success. When the Pordenon firemen arrived, the entire truck cabin was already engulfed in flames, partly due to a diesel leak that was flowing onto the asphalt and had reached the nearby woods. The firemen, with the help of a water tanker, managed to extinguish the fire, stopping the flames before they could catch in the forest.

Hanno avuto il loro da fare questa mattina i Vigili del Fuoco a causa di due mezzi andati a fuoco, un furgone e un camion. Il primo caso... / Read an Italian and Friulian version side by side: see number 7.

Friulian vocabulary

• un mieç, vehicle
• un camion, truck
• un furgon, van  
• une autostrade, highway
  
• une flame, flame
• un fûc, fire
  
• un pompîr, fireman
  
• un vuidadôr, driver
• un autist, driver
• i socors, help, assistance
• un bosc, woods, forest

Vê il so ce fâ: to have one’s hands full, to have one’s work cut out. Examples: i pompîrs a àn vût il lôr ce fâ par cause des flamis (the firemen had their work cut out due to the flames); i carabinîrs a àn vût il lôr ce fâ par cause dai rapinadôrs (the carabinîrs had their hands full due to the robbers).

Tor nûf mancul un cuart: at about a quarter to nine. More examples: tor vot mancul un cuart (at about a quarter to eight); tor siet mancul un cuart (at about a quarter to seven); tor sîs e un cuart (at about a quarter past six); tor cinc e un cuart (at about a quarter past five).

In rive sù: uphill. Examples: al stave fasint la strade in rive sù (he was going uphill on the road); o ài cjaminât in rive sù (I walked uphill). Antonym: in rive jù. Examples: al stave fasint la strade in rive jù (he was going downhill on the road); o ài cjaminât in rive jù (I walked downhill). Also figuratively: une celebritât in rive sù (a celebrity on the rise); une celebritât in rive jù (a celebrity on the decline).

Studâ il fûc: to extinguish the fire; also used: distudâ il fûc. In the Dograva variant of Friulian, the word for fire is fôc, pronounced with a diphthong: fouc (sounds like foh-ook).

Adun cun: along with, together with. Also used: dutun cun. Examples: adun cui pompîrs (along with the firemen); dutun cuntun coleghe (together with a co-worker).

Ur taiave la strade aes ambulancis juste pal gust di dâ fastidi

Une gnove pardabon fûr dal comun: a Pordenon al jere un om che, intant che al vuidave la sô machine, ur taiave la strade aes ambulancis, juste pal gust di dâur fastidi. I vuidadôrs des ambulancis a jerin dispès costrets a fâ manovris improvisis par no lâi intor, cun pericul no dome pai sanitaris ma ancje pai malâts dentri des ambulancis. La buine gnove e je che l’om al è stât cjapât e identificât dai carabinîrs: si trate di un om di cuarantetrê agns, za cognossût aes fuarcis dal ordin. Dilunc de percuisizion de sô machine, a son stâts cjatâts ogjets doprâts par inceâ, come un pontadôr laser, e telefonins cun filmâts des sôs azions. L’om al è stât denunziât par interuzion di servizi public e violence privade. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.

A truly unusual piece of news: in Pordenon, there was a man who, while driving his car, would cut off ambulances, just for the pleasure of causing them annoyance. Ambulance drivers were often forced to make sudden manoeuvres to avoid colliding with him, putting not only the paramedics but also the patients inside the ambulances at risk. The good news is that the man has been caught and identified by the carabinîrs: he’s a forty-three-year-old man, already known to law enforcement. During a search of his car, items used to dazzle were found, such as a laser pointer, along with telephones containing videoclips of his acts. The man has been charged with interruption of public service and private violence.

Una notizia davvero fuori del comune: a Pordenone c’era un uomo che, mentre guidava la sua macchina, tagliava la strada alle ambulanze, solo per il gusto di dare fastidio... / Read an Italian and Friulian version side by side: see number 6.

Friulian vocabulary

Taiâ la strade: passâ denant di cualchidun, obleantlu a ralentâ o a fermârsi (to pass in front of someone, forcing him to slow down or to stop). Esemplis: la machine mi à taiât la strade e o soi colât de biciclete (the car cut me off and I fell off my bicycle); la machine mi à taiât la strade e po e je scjampade vie lontane (the car cut me off and then took off into the distance).

Inceâ: svuarbâ pe masse lûs (to blind by excessive light). Esempli: la lûs de machine mi inceave (the light from the car was dazzling me). Svuarbâ: fâ deventâ vuarp (to cause to go blind).

Same examples in the Dograva variant of Friulian: la machina a mi à taiât la strada e i soi colât da la bicicleta; la machina a mi à taiât la strada e po a ei sçampada via lontana; la lûs da la machina a mi svuarbava.

Difese personâl: Cemût fasìno a savê se o vin denant di nô un fighter?

Read a text related to self-defence in Friulian

Difese personâl: Cemût fasìno a savê se o vin denant di nô un fighter? Cuatri elements di considerâju. Self-defence: How can we know if we’re dealing with a fighter? Four elements to consider.

O stin cuistionant cun cualchidun e la situazion e va di mâl in piês: pò ancje stâi che o tachìn a pacâsi intune barufe a pugns. Vino denant di nô un fighter? Varessino di frontâ cheste persone? Prin element: Par distingui ben se o vin denant di nô un aversari pericolôs, valadì un fighter, prin di dut o vin di cjalâi la posture, soredut i zenoi: sono plêats? Se a combati un om al è brâf, nol starà in pîts impicotît, e lis gjambis no saran tant che doi troncs; al contrari i zenoi a saran pleâts, e il fighter al sarà mobil e flessibil, par podê schivâ l’aversari e cjapâ pugns e sburtons cun stabilitât. I zenoi pleâts a son un campanel di alarme che o vin denant di nô un fighter. Secont element: lis spalis. Un fighter nol tignarà lis spalis bassis, ma impen lis spalis a saran tiradis sù un pôc, par podê vignî in difese dal barbuç. Cheste posizion plui alte des spalis i permet al fighter di tirâ pugns in maniere plui abile: un fighter cussì al à la difese personâl tal DNA. Tierç element: Il fighter al protezarà il barbuç. Al è improbabil che un om che ti sfide cul barbuç alt al sedi un fighter. Il fighter al sa ben che il barbuç al è un bersai une vore sensibil, alore lu tignarà bas. Cun di plui il fighter no ti cjalarà dal alt injù, ma ti cjalarà dal bas insù. Cheste maniere di cjalâ ti segnale une situazion di pericul: cun cheste voglade, il fighter ti sta butant un messaç clâr. Cuart element: il stât fisic dal om — cuel svilupât, nâs sfracaiât o stuart, orelis a cauliflôr. Chestis particolaritâts a vegnin dopo tantis oris di alenament. A rivuart des orelis a cauliflôr, chestis a vegnin dai tancj colps che a deformin la cartilagjin de orele.

We’re arguing with someone and the situation’s escalating: it may even be that we come to blows in a fist fight. Have we a fighter in front of us? Should we confront this person? First element: To determine if we’re dealing with a dangerous opponent, which is to say, a fighter, we must first observe his posture, especially his knees: are they bent? If a man is a skilled fighter, he won’t stand rigidly on his feet, and his legs won’t be like two trunks; on the contrary, his knees will be bent, and the fighter will be mobile and flexible, to be able to dodge the opponent and take punches or shoves with stability. Bent knees are an alarm bell that we’re facing a fighter. Second element: the shoulders. A fighter won’t keep his shoulders low; instead, they’ll be slightly raised, so as to come to the defence of his chin. This higher shoulder position allows the fighter to throw punches more skillfully: such a fighter has self-defence in his DNA. Third element: The fighter will protect his chin. It’s unlikely that a man who challenges you with his chin held high is a fighter. A fighter knows well that the chin is a very sensitive target, so he’ll keep it low. Additionally, a fighter won’t look down at you from above, but will look up at you from below. This way of looking signals to you a situation of danger: with this glance, the fighter’s sending you a clear message. Fourth element: the man’s physical condition — developed neck, flattened or crooked nose, cauliflower ears. These traits come from many hours of training. As for cauliflower ears, they result from the many blows that deform the ear’s cartilage.