Ronelle Alexander
Gorna Krušica 2
1 (c) [0:00] Kids today, these kids – let us tell [about our times].
now adv | child pl n def | this pl adj | child pl n | hort | dat 2sg clt | tell 1pl pres P |
2 (c) [0:00] I started making bread when I was twelve years old. [That was] the old days.
from | twelve | year f pl | 1sg pres aux clt | begin sg f L.part P | bread sg m | comp | knead 1sg pres I | one sg n adj | time sg n |
3 (c) [0:05] Not like now when they bring us [ready-made] bread. We made our own, home-made.
neg | 3sg pres cop clt | when | now adv | comp | dat 1pl clt | bring 3pl pres I | bread sg m | knead 1pl impf I | dat refl clt | domestic sg m adj |
4 (c) [0:09] We have a little stool, and a wooden kneading trough; it stayed there the whole time.
have 1pl pres I | one sg n adj | stool sg n | kneading.trough pl.t | dat refl clt | have 1pl pres I | such pl adj | wooden pl adj | there adv | dat refl clt | all adv | stand 3pl aor I |
5 (RA) Hm.
bkch |
6 (c) [0:13] I step up on the little stool and – you knead.
step 1sg pres P | on | stool sg n def | and | knead 2sg pres I |
7 (RA) And you knead.
and | knead 2sg pres I |
8 (c) [0:18] And you knead, right.
and | knead 2sg pres I | yes |
9 (RA) And where do you bake it?
and | where interr | acc m 3sg clt | bake 2sg pres I |
10 (c) [0:22] Ah. We have the outdoor oven, over there. See, there is what we have.
disc | such sg f adj | oven sg f | have 1pl pres I | ost | ost | ost | ost | now adv | there adv | have 1pl pres I | disc |
11 (RA) Aha.
bkch |
12 (c) [0:25] Behind the carriage.
behind | carriage sg f def |
13 (RA) Aha [yes].
bkch |
14 (d) [0:27] In the outdoor oven.
in | oven sg f def |
15 (c) [0:28] Over there, in the outdoor oven.
in | oven sg f | there adv |
16 (RA) [Ah,] in that oven.
in | that sg f adj | oven sg f |
17 (c) [0:30] Yes.
yes |
18 (RA) Huh.
disc |
19 (c) [0:31] I bake it there …
there adv | acc m 3sg clt | bake 1sg pres I |
20 (RA) Huh.
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21 (c) [0:32] take it out, and – my mother and father are reaping and plowing [out] there –
remove 1sg pres I | acc m 3sg clt | and | mother f sg | dat 1sg clt | and | father sg m | dat 1sg clt | reap 3pl pres I | plow 3pl pres I | there adv |
22 (c) [0:35] we have sheep, we have goats,
have 1pl pres I | sheep pl f | have 1pl pres I | goat pl f |
23 (RA) Uh huh.
bkch |
24 (c) [0:36] we had oxen, we had a mare. So early in the morning – I have a string-tie bag
have pl impf I | ox pl m | have 1pl impf I | mare sg f | disc | early adv | have 1sg pres I | carry.sack sg f |
25 (c) [0:40] I [put] the bread [in it] and load it on my back, and carry it to them out in the fields.
shoulder 1sg pres P | bread sg m def | and | dat 3pl clt | carry 1sg pres P | there adv | in | field sg f def |
26 (GK) You bake at home, and you work too.
nom 2sg | at.home adv | bake 2sg pres I | nom 2sg | and | work 2sg pres I |
27 (RA) And they –
nom 3pl | thus adv |
28 (c) [0:46] Ah yes!
disc |
29 (d) [0:46] Yes.
yes |
30 (RA) and they also work.
and | nom 3pl | work 3pl pres I |
31 (c) [0:48] Well, I bake but I also work all day with them
disc | disc | bake 1sg pres I | disc | entire sg m adj | day sg m | and | with | acc 3pl | and | work 1sg pres I |
32 (c) [0:50] after that. I don’t only bake. You don’t only sit at home!
later adv | not | only adv | comp | bake 1sg pres I | not | only adv | comp | sit 2sg pres I |
33 (c) [0:54] From the moment I started to walk, from when I was conscious of myself as a person,
from | when conj | 1sg pres aux clt | walk sg f L.part P | from | how conj | acc refl clt | know 1sg pres I | that conj | constitute 1sg pres I | person sg m |
34 (RA) [0:58] Hm.
bkch |
35 (c) I was always [working] for my father as a goatherdess and shepherdess.
by | father sg m | dat 1sg clt | all adv | goatherdess sg f | and | shepherdess sg f |
36 (c) [1:01] You [need] to pasture the goats and sheep, and to watch the kids –
goat pl f | and | sheep pl f | comp | pasture 2sg pres I | and | child pl n | comp | keep 2sg pres I |
37 (c) [1:03] and then after that I was [expected] to have lots of kids?
and | later adv | child pl n | interr clt | fut | give.birth 1sg pres I | many adv |
38 (c) [1:06] No way! Who dares have any more than two,
disc | from | two n | more adv | which sg m interr | dare 3sg pres P | comp | give.birth 3sg pres P |
39 (RA) [1:09] Hm.
bkch
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bkch
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40 (c) [1:10] once you’ve seen these hard times.
when conj | 2sg pres aux clt | see sg m L.part P | this pl adj | misery pl f |