| hpisen Peace Corps | Ia ohpisen Peace Corpsen? | Where is the Peace Corps office? |
| ihmu sarawi | Ia ihm sarawien? | Where is the church? |
Ask meaningful questions and give accurate responses in C-1 and C-2 relative to the location of your training site and classroom.
C-1
| A: | Ia imwen winien? | A: | Where is the (dispensary)? |
| B: | E mi (Pohrasapw). | B: | It's in (Pohrasapw). |
C-2
| A: | Ia (ohpisen wehien)? | A: | Where is the (municipal office)? |
| B: | (Paho). | B: | (Down there). |
TO THE STUDENT
/e/ is a third person singular subject pronoun and means 'he, she, or it.'
/ia/ in this cycle means 'where.'
/mi/ means 'exist or live' in the sense of being or dwelling in a particular location. (The short answer omitting /e mi/ as in C-2, B is perhaps the more ccmmcn response to a question about location.)
/palio/ in sentence final position is idiomatically translated in this text as 'over there.' Literally, though, /pali/ means 'side'; /palio/ thus means 'side-that' or 'the further side.' 'Over there', then, must be interpreted as 'over (meaning beyond or on the other side of) there.' Cycle 6 will further explore the use of /palio/.
/imwen wini/ literally means 'house-of medicine.' It may be translated either 'dispensary' or 'hospital.'
In this cycle, as in Cycle E, the noun suffix /-o/ is employed. Note, however, that this suffix is not used with proper nouns; therefore, it does not suffix to proper names of places.
The noun suffix /-(e)n/ as in /ia ohpis-en/ functions to indicate that the speaker does not know, nor has ever known, the location of the object that he is inquiring about. (If a rhetorical question is being posed,
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