Malevo/Hsk 2

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1 (VZh) It’ll be like the old days, people will start to weave again, to …

šte

fut

become 3sg pres P

one sg n adj

time sg n

mean 3sg pres I

again adv

comp

weave 3pl pres I

people pl def

comp

2 (a) [0:04] [laughter]

[ ... ]

3 (c) [0:05] Except that they –

only adv

that conj

nom 3pl

4 (b) [0:05] Who’s going to weave? We’re going to – We’ll die.

which sg m interr

fut

weave 3sg pres I

nom 1pl

fut

[...]

nom 1pl

fut

die 1pl pres P

5 (VZh) … to go again to the springs for water.

comp

go 3pl pres I

around

spring pl m def

for

water sg f

6 (b) We can’t.

nom 1pl

neg

can 1pl pres I

7 (a) [0:07] There isn’t anyone left to weave.

neg exist

which sg m interr

comp

weave 3sg pres I

8 (b) [0:08] There isn’t anyone left to weave.

neg exist

which sg m interr

comp

weave 3sg pres I

9 (VZh) [laughter]

[ ... ]

10 (a) [0:09] These young people don’t know how to weave.

nom 3pl

neg

know 3pl pres I

young pl def adj

comp

weave 3pl pres

disc

11 (VZh) [laughter]

[...]

12 (b) [0:11] Their daughter now has never done any spinning.

now adv

their sg f def adj

daughter sg f

neither

3sg pres aux clt

spin sg f L.part I

13 (VZh) You haven’t taught them? [laughter]

neg

2pl pres aux clt

acc 3pl clt

teach pl L.part P

14 (b) [0:13] We haven’t taught them.

neg

1pl pres aux clt

acc 3pl clt

teach pl L.part P

15 (b) [0:14] How are you going to teach them? These –They learn –

how interr

comp

acc 3pl clt

teach 2sg pres P

nom 3pl

acc refl clt

nom 3pl

acc refl clt

learn 3pl pres I

16 (b) [0:16] Young people learn on their own, and then they don’t know [anything]!

young pl def adj

dat refl clt

acc refl clt

learn 3pl pres I

interr clt

nom 3pl

neg

know 3pl pres I

17 (a) [0:19] [laughter]

[...]

18 (b) [0:19] Now, even my daughter-in-law (I don’t have a daughter, I have a daughter-in-law)

now adv

neither

and

my sg f def adj

daughter.in.law sg f

nom 1sg

not.have 1sg pres I

daughter sg f

have 1sg pres I

daughter.in.law sg f

19 (b) [0:22] even she doesn’t know – neither how to spin nor how to weave –

neither

and

nom f 3sg

know 3sg pres I

neither

comp

spin 3sg pres I

neither

comp

weave 3sg pres I

20 (a) [0:24] Huh.

xə

disc

ха

21 (b) [0:24] nothing!

neither

nothing sg n

22 (a) [0:25] Huh.

xə

disc

ха

23 (b) [0:26] Same with them, and …

same adv

and

nom 3pl

and

24 (a) [0:27] Eh!

disc

25 (b) [0:27] … all the other young people. We can’t [do it] any more, we’re –

other pl def adj

young pl def adj

generally adv

nom 1pl

neg

can 1pl pres I

already adv

nom 1pl

1pl pres cop clt

26 (b) [0:29] She’s eighty two …

nom f 3sg

eighty

and

two f

27 (a) [0:30] [But] back then –

one sg n adj

time sg n

28 (b) [0:31] … years old, and I’m seventy-one

year pl f

nom 1sg

1sg pres cop clt

seventy

and

one sg f adj

29 (c) [0:32] She’s eighty-two, and she still does [serious] work …

nom f 3sg

eighty

and

two f

year pl f

still

work 3sg pres I

work pl f

30 (b) [0:34] And still –

and

òšte

still

още

disc

31 (c) [0:35] … whereas city people at the age of eighty-two surely …

rel

surely adv

city sg m def

eighty

and

two f

32 (b) [0:36] Huh!

disc

33 (c) [0:36] … just sit around and read.

dat refl clt

си

stujɤ̀t

stand 3pl pres I

стоя

and

dat refl clt

си

četɤ̀t

read 3pl pres I

чета

34 (b) [0:37] We’ll go to – to –

dat refl clt

go 3sg pres P

[...]

35 (a) [0:38] Back then when, when we were still little, already when you reach

one sg n adj

time sg n

when inter.rel

still adv

when inter.rel

1pl impf cop

little pl adj

still adv

when inter.rel

become 2sg pres P

36 (a) [0:42] the age of fourteen – You start spinning [very] young:

fourteen

year pl f

from

little sg f adj

begin 2sg pres P

comp

spin 2sg pres P

37 (a) [0:47] you begin to spin at the age of ten, [your mother] says you [must] learn

from

ten

year pl f

begin 2sg pres I

comp

spin 2sg pres P

call 3sg pres I

comp

acc refl clt

learn 2sg pres I

38 (a) [0:49] to spin. [In fact] your mother says “Learn [so that] when you marry

comp

spin 2sg pres I

and

mother sg f def

call 3sg pres I

learn sg imv I

dat refl clt

when inter.rel

acc refl clt

marry 2sg pres P

39 (a) [0:53] your mother-in-law won’t club you on the hands!”

svikɤ̀rvətə

mother.in.law sg f def

comp

acc 2sg clt

neg

beat 3sg pres

hand pl f def

40 (RA) [laughter]

[ ... ]

41 (VZh) Uh huh.

əmxəm

bkch

42 (a) [0:56] [You need] to know how to do everything: to cook…

comp

know 2sg pres I

everything sg n adj

comp

do 2sg pres I

and

comp

cook 2sg pres I

43 (b) [0:58] and bake bread

and

bread sg m

comp

bake 2sg pres I

44 (a) [0:59] … and spin, and weave, and bake bread, and

and

comp

spin 3pl pres I

and

comp

weave 2sg pres I

and

bread sg m

comp

bake 2sg pres I

and

45 (a) [1:02] to [do] everything. You’ve got to know how to do everything.

everything sg n adj

comp

acc n 3sg clt

comp

know 2sg pres I

comp

do 2sg pres I

46 (a) [1:04] That’s how people entered into marriage back then.

thus med adv

acc refl clt

marry 3pl impf I

people pl def

one sg n adj

time sg n

47 (b) [1:06] Then…

tugàvə

then adv

тогава

48 (a) [1:07] They marry already having learned. But now?? [laughter] Now? [laughter]

marry 3pl pres I

acc refl clt

learn pl P.part P

but

now adv

now adv

49 (b) [1:12] Now [a few] coffees and they’re married!

now adv

coffee pl n

and

acc refl clt

marry 3pl pres I

50 (a) [1:14] [laughter]

[ ... ]

51 (b) [1:15] They know how to go out for coffee

know 3pl pres I

coffee pl n

comp

drink 3pl pres I

52 (a) [1:16] [laughter]

[ ... ]

53 (b) [1:16] and to get married,

and

acc refl clt

marry 3pl pres P

54 (a) [1:16] [laughter]

[ ... ]

55 (b) [1:17] and they don’t know anything [else].

and

neg

know 3pl pres I

nothing sg n

56 (a) [1:17] [laughter]

[ ... ]

57 (b) [1:18] That’s how it is now. And where are they going to go work?

now adv

thus med adv

and

where interr

fut

dat 1sg clt

go 3sg pres P

comp

dat 1sg clt

work 3pl pres I

58 (b) [1:21] In the fields? They’ll give her work to do out in the fields?

[...]

field sg f def

comp

dat f 3sg clt

give 3pl pres P

and

comp

go 3sg pres P

comp

work 3sg pres I

field sg f def

59 (a) [1:22] [laughter] That can’t ever be!

rel

fut neg

comp

3sg pres cop clt

60 (b) [1:23] [No,] that can’t be.

this sg n med adj

fut neg

and

comp

3sg pres cop clt

61 (a) [1:24] [laughter]

[ ... ]

62 (b) [1:25] So let them set up some cooperative farms and let the machines …

comp

dat refl clt

form 3pl pres I

one pl adj

cooperative pl f

and

comp

machine pl f def

63 (a) [1:28] Of their own effort.

from

от

svòjata

one’s.own sg f def adj

свой

ràbota

work sg f

работа

64 (b) [1:28] … go do the work, so we’ll have

comp

walk 3pl pres I

comp

work 3pl pres I

and

this sg n med adj

comp

have 1pl pres I

65 (a) [1:30] [laughter]

[ ... ]

66 (b) [1:30] at least [something] to eat. There [may be] nothing else

comp

at.least adv

comp

eat 1pl pres I

and

already adv

other sg n adj

pres neg exist

67 (b) [1:32] but let’s [at least] have bread!

comp

pres exist

bread sg m

68 (a) [1:37] [And] health – [we’ve got to] have health.

health sg n

comp

pres exist

health sg n

69 (b) [1:38] [Yes,] health is the most important [thing].

because

most

important sg n def adj

health sg n

comp

pres exist

70 (a) [1:40] If only the young people can be healthy. As for us –

only adv

comp

3pl pres cop clt

healthy pl adj

young pl def adj

but

but

nom 1pl

71 (a) [1:42] we’ve already lived out our lives, we’re ready for “there” [laughter]

already adv

1pl pres aux clt

dat refl clt

live pl L.part I

life sg m def

already adv

1pl pres cop clt

for

there adv

72 (c) [1:47] Yes, for “there”

disc

for

there adv

73 (b) [1:47] For the graveyard!

for

graveyard pl n def

74 (c) [1:48] [But] what’ll [we do] without you [older generation]?

without

acc 2pl

for

where interr

75 (b) [1:49] [laughter] Ah, what! [Now here’s what] I said to my grandmother,

where interr

disc

nom 1sg

thus med adv

call 1sg pres I

grandmother sg f

call 3sg pres I

call 1sg pres I

disc

76 (b) [1:53] “When Mom died” (that’s her mother-in-law – she got cancer

Mom sg f

when inter.rel

die 3sg aor P

mother.in.law sg f def

nom f 3sg

acc refl clt

fall.ill sg f L.part P

from

cancer sg m

77 (b) [1:56] and died very young, she was a very good person), “I said

and

very adv

young sg f adj

die 3sg aor P

and

very adv

3sg impf cop

good sg f adj

hes

call 1sg pres I

78 (b) [1:59] ‘What am I going to do when she dies?’ Without them (the older generation),

when conj

die 3sg pres P

what sg n interr

fut

do 1sg pres I

nom 1sg

without

acc f 3sg

79 (b) [2:01] we [young people] don’t know everything yet. And so I go to ask sister Petka,

neg

know 1pl pres I

still adv

everything sg n adj

and

come 1sg pres I

comp

ask 1sg pres I

older.sister sg f

Petka voc sg f name

80 (b) [2:06] because she’s an “older sister,” she’s bigger, an older sister.

because

3sg pres cop clt

older.sister sg f

big sg f adj

3sg pres cop clt

older.sister sg f

3sg pres cop clt

81 (b) [2:09] So I ask this older sister [so that] when she dies, we know something,

older.sister sg f

ask 1sg pres I

and

nom f 3sg

when conj

die 3sg pres P

nom 1pl

already adv

know 1pl pres I

82 (b) [2:13] or we don’t [but] whatever we know we do it.

neg

know 1pl pres I

what sg n rel

know 1pl pres I

and

dat refl clt

си

pràime

do 1pl pres I

правя

83 (a) [2:15] [laughter]

[ ... ]

84 (b) [2:15] So I ask her [because] she’s older, and she tells me.

and

ask 1sg pres I

acc f 3sg

big sg f adj

and

nom f 3sg

dat 1sg clt

say 3sg pres I

85 (b) [2:18] And that’s how we learn. And [the same for] you now: when we die

and

thus med adv

acc refl clt

learn 1pl pres I

and

nom 2pl

now adv

nom 1pl

when inter.rel

die 1pl pres P

86 (b) [2:21] you [will have learned] what you [need to] know. You’ll ask, and you’ll learn.

already adv

what sg n rel

dat refl clt

know 2pl pres I

fut

ask 2pl pres I

fut

acc refl clt

learn 2pl pres I

87 (a) [2:24] Ah, they know!

know 3pl pres I

adrs

88 (b) [2:24] And that’s how it is.

and

təkà

thus med adv

така

89 (a) [2:25] Misfortune –

neòl’ətə

misfortunate sg f def

неволя

90 (b) [2:25] These young ones now know more than we do. They know …

nom 3pl

more adv

know 3pl pres I

now adv

young pl def adj

from

acc 1pl

91 (a) [2:27] Misfortune drives a person…

neòl’ətə

misfortunate sg f def

drive 3sg pres I

person sg m def

92 (b) [2:28] … how to cook …

comp

cook 3pl pres I

93 (a) [2:29] … [to learn] everything [he needs] to know.

everything sg n adj

comp

know 3sg pres I

94 (b) [2:30] …. how to clean. We just can’t force them to go out to the fields. [laughter]

comp

clean 3pl pres I

only adv

for

field sg n def

fut neg

comp

acc 3pl clt

compel 1pl pres I

95 (a) [2:34] [laughter]

[ ... ]

96 (c) [2:37] But in the village people keep on working till very late [in life].

but

village sg n

late adv

work 3pl pres I

people pl def

disc

97 (c) [2:39] They work to a very old age indeed.

late sg f adj

age sg f

this sg n med adj

3sg pres cop clt

98 (b) [2:41] But what else can we do other than work?

but

what sg n interr

comp

do 1pl pres I

comp

neg

work 2sg pres I

disc

99 (b) [2:43] She’s eighty-two, and [still] works.

nom f 3sg

3sg pres cop clt

eighty

and

two f

year pl f

work 3sg pres I

100 (c) [2:44] She looks after the animals

nom f 3sg

look 3sg pres I

animal pl n

101 (b) [2:45] [Well,] I’m seventy-one, and we look after animals.

nom 1sg

1sg pres cop clt

seventy

and

one sg f adj

year sg f

animal pl n

look 1pl pres I

102 (b) [2:47] They bring us pigs, and cows, and what all [to look after].

and

pig pl n

dat 1pl clt

bring 3pl pres P

and

cow pl f

what sg n interr

interr clt

neg

103 (a) [2:52] [laughter] Calves. [laughter]

and

ту

t’è̝letə

calf pl n

теле

104 (b) [2:53] Yes, calves and such. Because the young people’s salaries are small.

and

calf pl n

and

thus med adv

because

young pl def adj

salary pl f def

little pl adj

105 (b) [2:59] Since the first of the year my son’s been out of work, and he has two boys.

and

son sg m def

dat 1sg clt

from

new sg f adj

year sg f

without

work sg f

and

have 3sg pres I

two n

boy pl n

106 (b) [3:04] The first is already in his third year of high school, and the other in eighth grade.

one sg n def

already adv

third sg m def adj

grade sg m

other sg n def adj

eighth sg m def adj

grade sg m

107 (b) [3:07] And children need [things] to wear, they need – they need

and

child pl n def

want 3pl pres I

comp

wear 3pl pres I

and

nom 3pl

want 3pl pres I

want 3pl pres I

108 (b) [3:09] to eat, and it’s our job to help them

comp

dat refl clt

acc refl clt

eat 3sg pres I

and

need pres imprs

and

nom 1pl

comp

help 1pl pres

109 (b) [3:12] [even if] we can’t any more, but we have to go ahead and help …

and

already adv

neg

can 1pl pres I

but

need pres imprs

comp

walk 1pl pres I

and

comp

help 1pl pres

110 (a) [3:16] otherwise they can’t [manage]

otherwise adv

neg

can 3pl pres I

111 (b) [3:17] … when they’re out of work. The main thing is that they are so many unemployed youth.

and

without

work sg f

most

important sg n def adj

that conj

many adv

young pl adj

people pl

pres exist

without

work sg f

112 (a) [3:21] [They’ve been] laid off.

səkrət’è̝ni

curtail pl P.part

съкратя

113 (b) [3:21] Laid off from work. What are they going to do? Young people have to live.

curtail pl P.part

from

work sg f

and

what sg n interr

comp

do 3pl pres I

young pl def adj

need pres imprs

acc refl clt

live 3sg pres I

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Malevo/Hsk 2

1 (VZh) It’ll be like the old days, people will start to weave again, to …

2 (a) [0:04] [laughter]

3 (c) [0:05] Except that they –

4 (b) [0:05] Who’s going to weave? We’re going to – We’ll die.

5 (VZh) … to go again to the springs for water.

6 (b) We can’t.

7 (a) [0:07] There isn’t anyone left to weave.

8 (b) [0:08] There isn’t anyone left to weave.

9 (VZh) [laughter]

10 (a) [0:09] These young people don’t know how to weave.

11 (VZh) [laughter]

12 (b) [0:11] Their daughter now has never done any spinning.

13 (VZh) You haven’t taught them? [laughter]

14 (b) [0:13] We haven’t taught them.

15 (b) [0:14] How are you going to teach them? These –They learn –

16 (b) [0:16] Young people learn on their own, and then they don’t know [anything]!

17 (a) [0:19] [laughter]

18 (b) [0:19] Now, even my daughter-in-law (I don’t have a daughter, I have a daughter-in-law)

19 (b) [0:22] even she doesn’t know – neither how to spin nor how to weave –

20 (a) [0:24] Huh.

21 (b) [0:24] nothing!

22 (a) [0:25] Huh.

23 (b) [0:26] Same with them, and …

24 (a) [0:27] Eh!

25 (b) [0:27] … all the other young people. We can’t [do it] any more, we’re –

26 (b) [0:29] She’s eighty two …

27 (a) [0:30] [But] back then –

28 (b) [0:31] … years old, and I’m seventy-one

29 (c) [0:32] She’s eighty-two, and she still does [serious] work …

30 (b) [0:34] And still –

31 (c) [0:35] … whereas city people at the age of eighty-two surely …

32 (b) [0:36] Huh!

33 (c) [0:36] … just sit around and read.

34 (b) [0:37] We’ll go to – to –

35 (a) [0:38] Back then when, when we were still little, already when you reach

36 (a) [0:42] the age of fourteen – You start spinning [very] young:

37 (a) [0:47] you begin to spin at the age of ten, [your mother] says you [must] learn

38 (a) [0:49] to spin. [In fact] your mother says “Learn [so that] when you marry

39 (a) [0:53] your mother-in-law won’t club you on the hands!”

40 (RA) [laughter]

41 (VZh) Uh huh.

42 (a) [0:56] [You need] to know how to do everything: to cook…

43 (b) [0:58] and bake bread

44 (a) [0:59] … and spin, and weave, and bake bread, and

45 (a) [1:02] to [do] everything. You’ve got to know how to do everything.

46 (a) [1:04] That’s how people entered into marriage back then.

47 (b) [1:06] Then…

48 (a) [1:07] They marry already having learned. But now?? [laughter] Now? [laughter]

49 (b) [1:12] Now [a few] coffees and they’re married!

50 (a) [1:14] [laughter]

51 (b) [1:15] They know how to go out for coffee

52 (a) [1:16] [laughter]

53 (b) [1:16] and to get married,

54 (a) [1:16] [laughter]

55 (b) [1:17] and they don’t know anything [else].

56 (a) [1:17] [laughter]

57 (b) [1:18] That’s how it is now. And where are they going to go work?

58 (b) [1:21] In the fields? They’ll give her work to do out in the fields?

59 (a) [1:22] [laughter] That can’t ever be!

60 (b) [1:23] [No,] that can’t be.

61 (a) [1:24] [laughter]

62 (b) [1:25] So let them set up some cooperative farms and let the machines …

63 (a) [1:28] Of their own effort.

64 (b) [1:28] … go do the work, so we’ll have

65 (a) [1:30] [laughter]

66 (b) [1:30] at least [something] to eat. There [may be] nothing else

67 (b) [1:32] but let’s [at least] have bread!

68 (a) [1:37] [And] health – [we’ve got to] have health.

69 (b) [1:38] [Yes,] health is the most important [thing].

70 (a) [1:40] If only the young people can be healthy. As for us –