Reports of drunk driving regularly come out of Friûl. In these reports, the drunk drivers are commonly identified as being not only drunk (cjoc), but drunk senseless (cjoc in bale). Another report has just come out of Friûl where a driver, cjoc in bale, drove the wrong way along the highway: al à vuidât cjoc in bale in cuintri man dilunc de autostrade. Below is a report in Friulian, which gives us the details. To read the report in its original form, click on the link.
Cjoc in bale in cuintri man dilunc de autostrade: Cuant che si dîs vê un sant in paradîs... Un om di trenteun agns al à vuidât cjoc in bale in cuintri man dilunc de autostrade. L’alarme al è stât dât biel prest a buinore, tor des cuatri, cuant che cualchidun al à visât che e jere une machine che e stave lant in cuintri man. Une patulie e je intervignude daurman, cjatant la machine ferme su la corsie, ma al contrari. Dentri i agjents a àn cjatât il vuidadôr poiât sul volant, cence capî nuie. L’etilometri al à confermât che al veve un tas di alcul pardabon alt, cinc voltis di là dal limit permetût, tant che si jere fermât su la corsie di sorpàs e al veve pierdût il sintiment. Pal vuidadôr cjoc in bale, ritirade daurman la patente, machine sot secuestri e multe pesantone par vê vuidât in cuintri man. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.
Drunk senseless and driving against traffic along highway: Talk about having a saint in heaven... A thirty-one-year-old man, drunk senseless, was driving the wrong way along the highway. The alarm was raised early in the morning, at about four o'clock, when someone warned that a vehicle was going the wrong way. A patrol intervened immediately, finding the car stopped on the lane, but facing the opposite direction. Inside, the officers found the driver slumped over the steering wheel, completely out of his senses. The breathalyser confirmed that he had an extremely high alcohol level, five times over the legal limit, so much so that he had come to a stop in the overtaking lane and lost consciousness. For the drunk senseless driver, licence immediately revoked, vehicle seized and heavy fine for driving against traffic.
Friulian vocabulary
- cjoc in bale, drunk senseless
- in cuintri man, against traffic
- une autostrade, a highway
- un sant, a saint
- il paradîs, heaven
- vuidâ cjoc, to drive drunk
- dâ l’alarme, to raise the alarm
- biel prest a buinore, very early in the morning
- visâ, to warn, to inform
- une patulie, a patrol
- intervignî, to intervene
- fer, still, not moving
- une corsie di sorpàs, an overtaking lane
- al contrari, facing the opposite direction
- poiât, leaning, slumped
- un volant, a steering wheel
- un etilometri, a breathalyser
- il limit permetût, the legal limit
- un tas di alcul, an alcohol level
- pierdi il sintiment, to lose consciousness
- une patente, a driving licence
- sot secuestri, seized
- une multe, a fine
- pesanton, very heavy
Cuant che si dîs vê un sant in paradîs: talk about having a saint in heaven. Cuant che si dîs vê un agnul custodi in cîl: talk about having a guardian angel in heaven.
Cence capî nuie: literally, without understanding anything. This means that the driver was so drunk that he was utterly out of his senses.
Fer: still, not moving. The four forms of this adjective are: fer (masculine singular); fers (masculine plural); ferme (feminine singular); fermis (feminine plural).
The image below is not associated with this incident, but what can you say in Friulian about what you see? Useful vocabulary: controlâ (to check); fâ un control (to do a check).
Friulian pronunciation
Tonic stress falls on the syllable marked by an accent in the following words: buinòre, màchine, patùlie, daurmàn, corsìe, volànt, etilòmetri, àlcul, pardabòn, lìmit, sintimènt, patènte, secuèstri, pesantòn.
Supplementary readings in Friulian
Following is a retelling of the news report from above, this time from the perspective of one of the policemen involved in the matter.
A jerin lis cuatri di buinore, ancjemò scûr, cuant che nus è rivade la alerte di une machine che e stave lant in cuintri man dilunc de autostrade. Un che al va in cuintri man al è un pericul pardabon. O sin partîts daurman viers l’autostrade. Cuant che o sin rivâts, o vin viodût che la machine e jere ferme su la corsie di sorpàs, ma al contrari. Dentri al jere un om, poiât sul volant. L’etilometri al à confermât ce che o pensavin. Al veve un tas di alcul pardabon alt, cinc voltis di là dal limit permetût, tant che si jere fermât li, propit su la corsie di sorpàs e al veve pierdût il sintiment.
It was about four in the morning, still dark, when the alarm was raised about a car going the wrong way along the highway. Someone driving against traffic is a serious danger. We set off immediately towards the highway. When we arrived, we saw the car stopped in the overtaking lane, but facing the opposite direction. Inside was a man, slumped over the steering wheel. The breathalyser confirmed what we thought. He had an extremely high alcohol level, five times over the legal limit, so much so that he had stopped right there in the overtaking lane and lost consciousness.
Following now is the same retelling, this time in the Dograva variant of Friulian.
A erin li cuatri di bunora, ençamò scûr, cuant ch’a ni è rivada l’alerta di una machina ch’a steva zint in contro man via pa l’autostrada. Un ch’al va in contro man al è un pericul pardabon. I sin partîts davorman viers l’autostrada. Cuant ch’i sin rivâts, i vin jodût che la machina a era ferma su la corsia di sorpàs, ma al contrari. Dentri al era un om, poiât sul volant. L’etilometro al à confermât sé ch’i pensavin. Al veva un tas di alcul pardabon alt, sinc voltis di là dal limit permitût, tant ch’al si era fermât li, propit su la corsia di sorpàs e al veva pierdût il sintiment.