Sumerian/Answers/Quick Quiz Answers
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[edit] Quick Quiz Answers
[edit] Posessives
Sumerian to English:
til.zu = your life
bad.bi = its wall
nin.ani =his/her queen
bad Uruk.ak =the wall of Uruk
English to Sumerian:
for her child = dumu.ani.ir
my king = lugal.ĝu
his house = e.ani
the queen of your temple = nin e.ani.ir
The .ir suffix is explained in the next section.
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[edit] The Case System
[edit] Case System Preliminaries
The subject of the quiz sentence is the phrase "The quick brown fox", and the object is the phrase "the lazy dog".
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[edit] The Genitive Case
iri.ene nin.ak = the eyes of the queen
lugal Urim.ak = the king of Urim
amar ses.zu.ak = the calf of my brother
the brother of the king = ses lugal.ak
the sister of my mother = nin ama.ğa
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[edit] Case System Quiz
Sumerian to English:
lugal Unuk.ak = the king of Uruk
nin.ir = for the queen
e lugal.ak = the house of the king
dumu nin.ak.ir = for the lady's child
English to Sumerian:
the son of the king = dumu lugal.ak
for the queen of Uruk = nin Uruk.ak.ir
the child of Uruk = dumu Uruk.ak
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