10 July 2025

Doi traficants di oms e cuatri clandestins, i moldâfs a finissin drets in preson

Following is a news report prepared in the Dograva variant of Friulian. In it, we learn that two Moldavians were arrested and taken to prison for having attempted to bring four Turks illegally into Italy. You can read this same news report rendered into standard Friulian after the English notes. Here is the news report in the Dograva variant:

Çapâts doi traficants di oms, moldâfs duçus doi. Il fat al è sussedût cuant ch’a ei stada fermada par un control una machina ch’a veva pena passât il cunfin cu la Slovenia. I moldâfs a son stâts arestâts e partâts drets in preson par vê serçât di fâ entrâ in Italia in môt ilegâl cuatri turcs.

Doi traficants di oms e cuatri clandestins, i moldâfs a finissin drets in preson

News report in English: Two human traffickers caught, both Moldavians. The incident occurred when agents stopped a car for a check that had just crossed the border with Slovenia. The Moldavians were arrested and taken straight to prison for having attempted to bring four Turks illegally into Italy.

Friulian conversation, according to the Dograva variant: To speak of sorting things out on one’s own, use rangiâsi. Two examples follow:

Example 1. —Chei doi moldâfs a son traficants di oms. —No mi interessa sé ch’a fan chei foresç. Clama i carabiniêrs, ch’a si rangin lôr. (—Those two Moldavians are human traffickers. —I don’t care what those foreigners are doing. Call the carabiniêrs, let them sort it out themselves.)

Example 2. —Bepo al è stât partât in preson dret come una fuseta. Al vendeva droga fôr da la scuela. —Ch’al si rangi, ch’al impari di bessôl. (—Bepo was taken at rocket-speed to prison. He was selling drugs outside the school. —Let him sort it out himself, let him learn on his own.)

The Dograva form rangiâsi finds its equivalent in standard Friulian as rangjâsi. Here is the news report from above, this time in standard Friulian: Cjapâts doi traficants di oms, moldâfs ducj i doi. Il fat al è sucedût cuant che e je stade fermade par un control une machine che e veve a pene passât il confin cu la Slovenie. I moldâfs a son stâts arestâts e puartâts drets in preson par vê cirût di fâ jentrâ in Italie in mût ilegâl cuatri turcs. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.