Friulian lessons related to the cultural classic Lis predicjis dal muini by Josef Marchet. Download a PDF of the book and listen to the Friulian audio on the website of the Societât Filologjiche Furlane.

2026-10-02

Learn Friulian 16. Lis predicjis dal muini: La statistiche

This is the sixteenth lesson in our study of the Friulian language using the book Lis predicjis dal muini by Josef Marchet. Follow the links in Learn 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 commentary below relates to that part of the second paragraph of La statistiche where Vigji talks about la viele di Treseman (Treseman's mother).

COMMENTARY ON THE FRIULIAN

La statistiche: paragraph 2, sentence 3b.

Vocabulary: la viele (old woman {mother}); la spale (shoulder); nonante (ninety); un carnevâl (carnival); cence (without); puar (poor); la femine (woman); une cjame (load, burden); une strussie (hardship); di ogni fate (of every sort); la famee (family); bastart (bastard); dulà che (where); tocjâ (to touch, to befall); vivi (to live); cualchi (some odd, a few); un centenâr (about a hundred); un miâr (about a thousand); un rosari (rosary); dal sigûr (surely, for sure); il purgatori (purgatory); nancje cun (not even with); la ponte (tip); il dêt (finger); piçul (little, small).

notes in preparation, to be continued

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