This is the fourth lesson in the Learning Friulian series using the book Lis predicjis dal muini by Josef Marchet. Follow the links in Learning Friulian 1 to read the entire book in PDF form and to listen to the audio, available online courtesy of the Societât Filologjiche Furlane.
The Friulian notes below relate to the third and last sentence of the second paragraph of the Preambul, which begins with intun cuadri and ends with voie di cjalâle.
FRIULIAN NOTES
Preambul: paragraph 2, sentence 3.
Intun cuadri lis robis claris a parin plui lusorosis: in a painting, light things appear brighter. In and un combine to form intun (in a); the feminine equivalent is intune. Examples: intun cuadri (in a painting); intune cjase (in a house); intun libri (in a book); intune lenghe (in a language). Une robe: a thing. Clâr: light, bright. Parê: to appear, to seem. Lis robis claris a parin: light things appear. Lusorôs: bright, brilliant. Plui lusorôs: brighter, more brilliant. Both claris and lusorosis are feminine plural to agree in number and gender with feminine plural robis.
Se a son dongje lis ombris e lis maglis: if there are shadows and dark spots beside them. Se: if. Dongje: alongside, nearby. Une ombre: a shadow. Une magle: a dark spot, a stain. Taken more literally, this phrase can be understood as: if nearby are shadows and dark spots. In some variants of Friulian, such as western ones, be prepared to hear dongje said as dongia. Whereas standard dongje takes a hard g (as in the English word get), variant form dongia uses a soft one (as in the English word jet). Standard example: dongje de cjase (beside the house); equivalent in certain variants: dongia da la çasa.
Se no son ombris ni maglis: if there are neither shadows nor dark spots. A son ombris: there are shadows. No son ombris: there are no shadows. A son can take the sense of either they are or there are. Examples: i cjamps a son dongje de citât (the fields are near the city); a son une vore di cjamps dongje de citât (there are many fields near the city). Negated, a son becomes no son. In the phrase under review here, no son takes the sense of there are no, there are not any. No... ni... ni... can be used in neither... nor constructions in this way: chel monument nol è ni grant ni biel (that monument is neither large nor beautiful); chê citât no je ni grande ni biele (that city is neither large nor beautiful); su la taule no son ni pirons ni sedons (on the table are neither forks nor spoons). In our phrase under review, the author omitted ni before ombris (he used ni only once), which is a simplified, more direct style. Consider: al è (masculine singular); e je (feminine singular); a son (masculine and feminine plural); negated: nol è, no je, no son. For information: il piron (fork), la sedon (spoon), il curtìs (knife).
Si pues stâ sigûrs che e je dute une bausie: you can be certain that it is all a lie. Podê: can, to be able. Si pues: one can, one is able. Stâ sigûr: to be certain, to be sure. The masculine plural sigûrs is used because si pues refers to people in general, which is a plural concept. Une bausie: a lie; this word has three syllables (bau-sì-e), and the stress falls on the second one. E je is used because bausie is feminine singular. Examples: e je dute une bausie (it is all a lie); al è dut un mismàs (it is all a mess).
No ven nancje voie di cjalâle: you will not even want to look at it. Vignî: to come. La voie: keenness, desire. E ven voie: keenness comes. No ven voie: keenness comes not. Nancje: not even. In Friulian, to look at it is either cjalâlu or cjalâle; the former uses the masculine singular direct object lu attached to the infinitive cjalâ, whereas the latter uses the feminine singular direct object le. In our phrase under review, the feminine singular is used because it refers back to feminine singular bausie (lie) rather than masculine singular cuadri (painting): in the author's mind, the object is not a painting at all, but a lie.
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