lecslab/glosslm-corpus-split huggingface dataset:
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Las nòtízjas sa ju bétg danù̱ndar als gjaniturs , als duṣ baps prandèvan aj , i dèva ajnta Ruèras , dèv’ aj in tga vèva rádjò .
Glosses: DEF.F.PL news.PL know.PRS.1SG 1SG NEG from_where DEF.M.PL parents.PL DEF.M.PL two.M.PL father.PL take.IMPF.3PL 3SG EXPL EXIST.IMPF.3SG in PN EXIST.IMPF.3SG EXPL one.M.SG REL have.IMPF.3SG radio.M.SG
Translation: I don’t know where my parents had the news from, the two fathers took them, there was in Rueras, there was [only] one who had a radio.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: In sulèt tga vèva rádjò . A mju bap ò lu gju l’ amprém al rádjò .
Glosses: one.M.SG only.M.SG REL have.3SG radio.M.SG and POSS.1SG.M.SG father have.PRS.3SG then have.PTCP.UNM DEF.M.SG first DEF.M.SG radio
Translation: Only one had a radio. And it was my father who was the first one to have a radio.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A sjantar , gè , va ju … ṣè `l bap lu mòrts , tgu vèva … mù vèntgadúṣ òns .
Glosses: and after yes have.PRS.1SG 1SG _ be.PRS.3SG DEF.M.SG father then die.PTCP.M.SG when.REL.1SG have.IMPF.3SG _ only twenty-two year.M.PL
Translation: And after that, yes, I had … my father then died when I was … only 22 years old.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Sùn lu maridaus duṣ òns sjantar . A … ad ju savèva , èl vèva maj schau òr da maun da mé bjè .
Glosses: be.PRS.1SG then marry.PTCP.M.SG two.M.PL year.PL later and _ and 1SG know.IMPF.1SG 3SG.M have.IMPF.3SG never let.PTCP.UNM out of hand.M.SG DAT 1SG much
Translation: I then got married two years later. And … and I knew, he had never let me be really responsible [for the farm].
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ad èra stau in gréjv mùmè̱n cun sissòntanùv òns . Èl vèva gju ina … ambòlí , gè … gè .
Glosses: and be.IMPF.3SG COP.PTCP.UNM INDEF.M.SG difficult.M.SG moment with sixty-nine year.M.PL 3SG.M have.IMPF.3SG have.PTCP.UNM INDEF.F.SG _ embolism yes _ yes
Translation: And this had been a difficult moment, at age sixty-nine. He’d had an … embolism, yes … yes.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ábar al pur figèva ju lu èra , a figèva è , vèv’ è plaṣchaj vi da quaj vi da tschaj , ábar bigja intgarnaus cù nuṣ ṣchajn … pròpi … quaj sùnd ju , quaj détschu , quaj sùnd ju maj staus .
Glosses: but DEF.M.SG farmer do.IMPF.1SG 1SG then also and do.IMPF.1SG also have.IMPF.1SG also pleasure.M.SG over of DEM.UNM over of DEM.UNM but NEG inveterate.M.SG as 1PL say.PRS.1PL _ really _ DEM.UNM be.PRS.1SG 1SG DEM.UNM say.PRS.1SG.1SG DEM.UNM be.PRS.1SG 1SG never COP.PTCP.M.SG
Translation: But then I also worked as a farmer, and did it also, also had pleasure in this and that, but [I wasn’t] an inveterate farmer as we say … really … this I have, this I say, this I have never been.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Vi da lavinèras , né vi dad uauts , né vi da da … cùla la , da l’ arùndazjún vèv’ ju méz tùt als tjarms , a qu’ èra stau gròndas lavurs a a a lavurs tgu a gju tscháfan da fá … a schòn stau hèfti ábar … fadjau bjè raps .
Glosses: over of avalanche_barrier.F.PL or over of woods.F.PL or over of of _ with.DEF.F.SG DEF.F.SG of DEF.F.SG joining_of_properties.F.SG have.IMPF.1SG 1SG put.PTCP.UNM all DEF.M.PL boundary_stone.PL and DEM.UNM be.IMPF.3SG COP.PTCP.UNM big.F.PL work.PL and and and work.F.PL REL.1SG have.PRS.1SG have.PTCP.UNM desire.M.SG COMP do.INF _ and really COP.PTCP.UNM strenuous.UNM but _ earn.PTCP.UNM much cent.M.PL
Translation: For the avalanche barriers, or for the forests, or for the the … for the, the joining of properties I had put all the boundary stones, and this had been hard work and and and work I was pleased to do … and it has indeed been strenuous but … [I] earned a lot of money.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A sjantar … cu quaj è juṣ a … a lu è aun ugagjau a bagjau ina tgèsa da trajs habitazjuns , ana sjatònta , a quaj è vagnú ajn danès tgu vèva aun maj vju raps .
Glosses: and after _ when DEM.UNM be.PRS.3SG go.PTCP.M.SG and _ and then also still dare.PTCP.UNM and build.PTCP.UNM INDEF.F.SG house of three apartment.F.PL year seventy and DEM.UNM be.PRS.3SG come.PTCP.UNM in money.M.PL REL.1SG have.IMPF.1SG yet never see.PTCP.UNM cent.M.PL
Translation: And then … when this happened and … and [I] then dared to build a house with three apartments, in 1970, and so I earned an amount of money that I had never seen [in my life].
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Aun taunts raps . Qu’ èba lu , lu ṣa[j] ju .
Glosses: still so_much.M.PL cent.PL DEM.UNM just then then COP.PRS.3SG.EXPL go.PTCP.UNM
Translation: Imagine so much money. That’s the way it happened.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Avaun èrans schi anavù̱s a tùtajnína ṣè quaj vagnú uschéja . A lu va ju , va ju èra lò fatg vinavaun , puspè cun … luvrau fétg , la dùna ò lu è luvrau cun … fétg , èla è ina simpla fèmna , a luvrau fétg .
Glosses: before COP.IMPF.1PL.1PL so backward and suddenly be.PRS.3SG DEM.UNM come.PTCP.UNM so and then have.PRS.1SG 1SG have.PRS.1SG 1SG also there make.PTCP.UNM forward again with _ work.PTCP.UNM much DEF.F.SG woman have.PRS.3SG then also work.PTCP.UNM with _ much 3SG.F COP.F.SG INDEF.F.SG simple woman and work.PTCP.UNM much
Translation: Before we were so backward, and suddenly it happened this way. And in this situation I went on, again with, working hard, my wife also contributed … a lot, she is a simple woman, worked hard.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Gè , ju a atgnamajn príu , príu avaun da préndar ah , zatgéj històrjas cò da quaj ah détgas a praulaṣ ábar ju a lu vju ajn gé̱néral cò , vau príu quaj cùdisch cò da la mütòlògía , a quaj ajn gé̱néral cuértaṣ .
Glosses: yes 1SG have.PRS.1SG actually take.PTCP.UNM take.PTCP.UNM before COMP take.INF eh something story.F.PL here of DEM.UNM eh legend.F.PL and fairy_tale.F.PL but 1SG have.PRS.1SG then see.PTCP.UNM in general here have.PRS.1SG.1SG take.PTCP.UNM DEM.M.SG book here of DEF.F.SG mythology and DEM.UNM in general short.F.PL
Translation: Actually, I had planned to take, eh, some stories here from these legends and fairy tales, I then saw [that] generally here [i.e. in the book], I took this book of mythology, but these [are] in general short ones.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Lu sùnd ju sadacidjus da … raṣdá in pau ṣur da la … da mi’ ufaunza , a lu cunzún ah c’ ju sùn stauṣ anzjaman cul tat ajn Pardatsch .
Glosses: then be.PRS.1SG 1SG REFL.decide.PTCP.M.SG COMP _ talk.INF INDEF.M.SG little over of DEF.F.SG _ of POSS.1SG.F.SG childhood and then especially eh when 1SG be.PRS.1SG be.PTCP.M.SG together with.DEF.M.SG grandfather up PN
Translation: Then I decided to … talk a bit about … my childhood, and then especially when I was together with my grandfather up in Pardatsch.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Quaj è pia al … al tat da la vart da la mùma .
Glosses: DEM.UNM COP.PRS.3SG thus DEF.M.SG _ DEF.M.SG grandfather of DEF.F.SG side of DEF.F.SG mother
Translation: So that is … my grandfather from my mother’s side.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Èl vèva nùm PN , èl è naschjus méli ad òtgtschian òtgòntasjat , a mòrts sin méli a … nùvtschian sissòntasjat , pia vagnúṣ da quèla , da quèlṣ òns schòn … òtgònt’ òns .
Glosses: 3SG have.IMPF.3SG name PN 3SG.M be.PRS.3SG born.PTCP.M.SG thousand and eight_hundred eighty-seven and die.PTCP.M.SG on thousand and _ nine_hundred sixty-seven therefore become.PTCP.M.SG at DEM.F.SG at DEM.M.PL year.PL already _ eighty year.M.PL
Translation: His name was PN, he was born 1887 and died 1967, so he was at that time already … eighty years old.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Quaj è stau ina … fétg grònda famiglja , èlṣ òn gju indiṣch ufauns , in è mòrts , ah , tga `l vèva circa curònta curòntatschun ònṣ ò `l gju in accidèn ajnta Nalbṣ , èra vida … piná lèna , a survagnú in pégn , schmacau èl .
Glosses: DEM.UNM be.PRS.3SG COP.PTCP.UNM INDEF.F.SG _ very big family 3PL.M have.PRS.3PL have.PTCP.UNM eleven child.M.PL one.M.SG be.PRS.3SG die.PTCP.M.SG eh SUBORD 3SG.M have.IMPF.3SG about forty forty-five year.M.PL have.PRS.3SG 3SG.M have.PTCP.UNM INDEF.M.SG accident up PN COP.IMPF.3SG PROG _ fell.INF wood.COLL and get.PTCP.UNM INDEF.M.SG spruce squash.PTCP.UNM 3SG.M
Translation: This was a … very big family, they had eleven children, one died, eh, when he was around forty, forty-five years old, he had an accident in Nalps, he was cutting trees and got a spruce, squashed him.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Alṣ da Surajn òn gju bjè pupira , quèls spargnavan è starmantús , stuèvan spargnè , a … ju sa dalṣ aucs , quèlṣ vèvan in purèssar plétò̱st … pin , tgéj pudévan èlṣ vaj , déjsch quindiṣch armaulṣ gronṣ api lu aun … tgauras sòu tga vèvan a … pòrṣ a gaglinaṣ a da quaj a vivèvan lu plétò̱st dal purèssar .
Glosses: DEF.M.PL of PN have.PRS.3PL have.PTCP.UNM much poverty.F.SG DEM.M.PL save.IMPF.3PL also terrible.ADJ.UNM must.IMPF.3PL save.INF and _ 1SG know.PRS.1SG from DEF.M.PL DEM.M.PL have.IMPF.3PL INDEF.M.SG farm rather _ small what can.IMPF.3PL 3PL.M have.INF ten fifteen animal.M.PL big.PL and then besides _ goat.F.PL know.PRS.1SG.1SG COMP have.IMPF.3PL and _ pig.M.PL and hen.F.PL and of DEM.UNM and live.IMPF.3PL then rather of.DEF.M.SG farming
Translation: Those relatives who lived in Surrein were very poor, they would save as much as they could, they had to save, and … I know from my uncles, they had a rather … small farm, what could they have, maybe ten, fifteen big animals and then also goats I know they had, and … pigs and hens and such things, and lived rather on farming.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A zatgéj mava' lṣ aucs mavan lu aun anzatgé … ád uáut .
Glosses: and something go.IMPF.3SG DEF.M.PL uncle.PL go.IMPF.3PL then also something _ to forest.M.SG
Translation: And sometimes my uncles would also go sometimes … to the forest.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ábar i èra , a fá léna , cunzún al bjè a fá léna né a métar najf magari i è stau in tjams tga mavan sél pas , mávani sé a métar najf pala … viafíar da la Fùrca-Albṣù̱.
Glosses: but EXPL be.IMPF.3SG SUBORD make.INF wood.COLL especially DEF.M.SG most SUBORD make.INF wood.COLL or SUBORD put.INF snow sometimes EXPL be.PRS.3SG COP.PTCP.UNM INDEF.M.SG time REL go.IMPF.3PL on.DEF.M.SG pass go.IMPF.3PL.3PL up SUBORD put.INF snow for.DEF.F.SG _ railway of DEF.F.SG PN
Translation: But it was in order to fell trees, especially in most cases to fell trees or to remove snow from time to time, it was a time when they would go up to the pass, they used to go up to remove snow for the … Furka-Alpsu railway line.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A lu … tiar mè ṣè quaj stau ussuschéa , ju èr’ juṣ ah … a scùlèta .
Glosses: and then _ by 1SG COP.PRS.3SG DEM.UNM COP.PTCP.UNM exactly_so 1SG be.IMPF.1SG go.PTCP.M.SG eh _ to nursery_school.F.SG
Translation: And then with me it was exactly like this; I had gone to nursery school.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Nuṣ vèvan cò ina sòra tg' instruéva , qu' èra circa , cò visaví circa tschuncònt’ ufauns .
Glosses: 1PL have.IMPF.1PL here INDEF.F.SG Sister REL teach.IMPF.3SG DEM.UNM COP.IMPF.3SG around here in_front around fifty child.M.PL
Translation: Here we had a Sister who used to teach around, right in front of here, around fifty children.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Álṣò qu’ èra fòrs’ ina tjarza tga mava a scùlèta .
Glosses: well DEM.UNM COP.IMPF.3SG maybe INDEF.F.SG third REL go.IMPF.3SG to nursery_school.F.SG
Translation: Well, it was maybe one third that would attend nursery school.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ju sùn juṣ in tjamṣ a plaṣchèva da mé ṣchùbar nuét api vau détg di mùma in dé:
Glosses: 1SG be.PRS.1SG go.PTCP.M.SG INDEF.M.SG time and please.IMPF.3SG DAT 1SG clean nothing and have.PRS.1SG.1SG say.PTCP.UNM DEF.DAT.SG mother.F.SG INDEF.M.SG day
Translation: I went [to nursery school] for a certain time and I didn’t like it at all and one day I said to my mother:
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: «Ju cala dad í a scùlèta , ju pùs bitg' í plé .»
Glosses: 1SG stop.PRS.1SG COMP go.INF to nursery_school.F.SG 1SG can.PRS.1SG NEG go.INF any_more
Translation: I’ll stop going to nursery school, I can’t stand it any longer.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Quaj è quèla val , gjù cò la val Nalbṣ vidajn , in majṣès ajnami̱az c' ò nùm Pardatsch .
Glosses: DEM.UNM cop.PRS.3SG DEM.F.SG valley down here DEF.F.SG valley PN up_into INDEF.M.SG assembly_of_houses in_middle REL have.PRS.3SG name.M.SG PN
Translation: This is the valley down here, into the Nalps valley, a majṣés.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Lu sùnd ju sadacidjus dad í , gè gè vau tartgau , ju sùn adina staus plétò̱st al tüp da la … natira .
Glosses: then be.PRS.1SG 1SG REFL.decide.PTCP.M.SG COMP go.INF yes yes have.PRS.1SG.1SG think.PTCP.UNM 1SG be.PRS.1SG always COP.PTCP.M.SG rather DEF.M.SG fellow of DEF.F.SG _ nature
Translation: Then I decided to go, yes, yes, I thought I had always been rather someone who likes nature.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Sùnd juṣ ah gjù Surajn a lò ṣè aun stau … da fá laṣ davùsas lavurs , scù métar grascha , ará a da quaj , quaj èra bigja grat schi sémpal , a sjantar èssan nuṣ i … ajn quaj Pardatsch .
Glosses: be.PRS.1SG go.PTCP.M.SG eh down PN and there be.PRS.3SG still be.PTCP.UNM _ to do.INF DEF.F.PL last.PL work.PL like put.INF dung.F.SG plough.INF and of DEM.UNM DEM.UNM COP.IMPF.3SG NEG just so easy.ADJ.UNM and after be.PRS.1PL 1PL go.PTCP.M.PL _ up DEM.UNM PN
Translation: I went eh down to Surrein and there we still had … to do the last work, like dunging, ploughing and this sort of thing, this was not exactly that simple, and after that we went up to Pardatsch.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Í vidajn , quaj manava aun ina … ina via nauscha , ábar i èran grad vitlúndar , vida luvará , qu’ è stau al tjams tschuncòntassís , ju vèva … siṣ òns tga … èran vida prapará la via par í sé Nalps a bagagè al mir da farmada .
Glosses: go.INF up.in DEM.UNM lead.IMPF.3SG in_addition INDEF.F.SG _ INDEF.F.SG road bad but 3PL COP.IMPF.3PL just PROG PROG work.INF DEM.UNM be.PRS.3SG COP.PTCP.UNM DEF.M.SG time fifty-six 1SG have.IMPF.1SG _ six year.M.PL when.REL _ COP.IMPF.3PL PROG prepare.INF DEF.F.SG road SUBORD go.INF up PN SUBORD build.INF DEF.M.SG wall.M.SG of reservoir.F.SG
Translation: [In order to] go up, there led a … a bad road, but they were just working, that was … in 1956, I was six years old when they were preparing the road in order to go to Nalps to build the wall of the reservoir.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ah … Nalps è vagnú fraquantau ò scù majṣès ad alps adina , lu ṣè aun dus trajs intarassants lògans ajn cò , ajn Burganèz , qu' è in tòc pléndanòra , lò ani bagagjau gjù la … raquéntani … la crapa par bagagè al clutgè-basèlgja .
Glosses: eh _ PN be.PRS.3SG PASS.AUX.PTCP.UNM visit.PTCP.UNM out as assembly_of_houses and alp.M.PL always then EXIST.PRS.3SG still two.M three interesting place.M.PL in here in PN DEM.UNM COP.PRS.3SG INDEF.M.SG bit more_out there have.PRS.3PL.3PL build.PTCP.UNM down DEF.F.SG _ tell.PRS.3PL.3PL _ DEF.F.SG stone.COLL SUBORD build.INF DEF.M.SG tower.M.SG-church.F.SG
Translation: Eh … Nalps has always been visited as an assembly of houses and as pastures, there are furthermore two or three interesting places up there, in Burganez, this is a little bit more down the valley, there they removed, as they say, the stones used to build the church tower [of Sedrun].
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Quèla blòca mávani ajn a tagliavan ò a trèvan vidò cun bùfs tòcan ò cò a Sadrùn .
Glosses: DEM.F.SG block.COLL go.IMPF.3PL up and cut.IMPF.3PL out and carry.IMPF.3PL down with ox.M.PL until down here at PN
Translation: [With] these blocks they went up, cut [them] out, and brought them down with oxen until here in Sedrun.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A pléndanajn in tòc da tschèla vart , lò ṣaj práctisch al sulèt grép da catschina tga végn avaun ála val Tujetsch .
Glosses: and more_uphill INDEF.M.SG piece of DEM.F.SG side there COP.PRS.3SG practically DEF.M.SG only.M.SG rock of limestone.F.SG REL come.PRS.3SG before in.DEF.F.SG valley PN
Translation: And a little bit more uphill, a little bit on the other side, there is almost the only limestone rock that can be found in the Tujetsch valley.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ad i aun èra lò , zatgé rastònza ṣè aun lò tg’ ins sa í ajn a mirá; `l PN ò è fagj lò in pèr placats tga mùssan ajn via nùc’ ins sa è mirá quaj .
Glosses: and EXPL still EXIST.IMPF.3SG there some remnant.F.SG EXIST.PRS.3SG still there REL GNR can.PRS.3SG go.INF into SUBORD see.INF DEF.M.SG PN have.PRS.3SG also make.PTCP.UNM there INDEF.M.SG pair poster.M.PL REL show.PRS.3PL in way where GNR can.PRS.3SG also see.INF DEM.UNM
Translation: And there were also, there still are some remnants there where one can go and see; PN also put some posters there which show where on the way one can have a look at this.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A lu Pr̩datsch … plénansé cò ancù̱ntar Tgòm … ṣaj ina rùsna , quaj fùṣ è aun intarassant sch’ ins savés , quaj datèscha da gl òn ju … a ùssa bigja grat prèsèn , méli a sistschian a zatgéj .
Glosses: and then PN _ more_uphill here in_direction PN _ COP.PRS.3SG.EXPL INDEF.F.SG hole DEM.UNM COP.COND.3SG also indeed interesting.UNM if GNR know.COND.3SG DEM.UNM date.PRS.3SG from DEF.M.SG year 1SG _ have.PRS.1SG now NEG just present thousand and six_hundred and something
Translation: And then Pardatsch … a bit more uphill here in direction of Tgom … there is a cave, it would indeed be interesting if one knew, this is dated, I … don't have it exactly in mind, sixteen hundred something.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A lò pratjándani tga cavavan òra … matalts .
Glosses: and there pretend.PRS.3PL.3PL COMP recover.IMPF.3PL out _ metal.M.PL
Translation: And there they pretend that they recovered metals.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A quaj è ina rùsna , òh tgé pù qual' èssar … in mè̱tar a miaz … lada , a fòrza … dus mè̱tars auta .
Glosses: and DEM.UNM COP.PRS.3SG INDEF.F.SG hole oh what can.PRS.3SG DEM.F.SG be.INF _ one.M.SG metre and half _ large.F.SG and maybe _ two.M.PL metre.PL high.F.SG
Translation: And there is a cave, oh how big may it be …, one and a half metres … wide, and maybe … two metres high.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Daváuntiar ṣaj sé la , l’ anada cur' i òn antschiat , ad inṣ vèz’ aun quaj , bagagjávani gjù … cun ah , bjè manuálmajn .
Glosses: in_front COP.PRS.3SG.EXPL up DEF.F.SG DEF.F.SG year when 3PL have.PRS.3PL begin.PTCP.UNM and GNR see.PRS.3SG still DEM.UNM build.IMPF.3PL.3PL down _ with eh much manual.ADV
Translation: In front of it there is, eh, the year when they started, one can still see [that] they used to mine this with, ah, a lot manually.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: A quèla tauna vò vidajn – quaj tgu sùn stauṣ ajn – vò lò vidajn circa véntgatschún mè̱tars , san inṣ_ í vidajn da quèla , api sasparti , vòi ajn duas .
Glosses: and DEM.F.SG cave go.PRS.3SG into _ DEM.UNM REL.1SG be.PRS.1SG COP.PTCP.M.SG in _ go.PRS.3SG there into about twenty-five metre.M.PL can.PRS.3SG GNR go.INF into of DEM.F.SG and REFL.divide.PRS.3SG.EXPL go.PRS.3SG.EXPL in two.F
Translation: And this cave – [judging from] where I have been into it – one can go into it about 25 metres, and then it splits into two.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: Ah , tgé … prandèvan pròpi òra sa ins bégj' éxáct , dí dian ins matalṣ , ábar ò vèza quaj insùma bégj in grép da matal .
Glosses: eh what _ take.IMPF.3PL exactly out know.PRS.3SG GNR NEG exact.ADJ.UNM say.INF say.PRS.3SG GNR metal.M.PL but out look.PRS.3SG DEM.UNM at_all NEG INDEF.M.SG rock.M.SG of metal.M.SG
Translation: Ah, what … they really mined one does not know exactly, people say that it is metals, but this rock doesn't look like it contained metals at all.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: Préndar ajn , pù schòn èssar tga samidav’ al grép , tga … a dí di la … la détga di tg’ è̱rian schindanajn tg' i udé̱vian c’ i tucavi da mjadṣ-dé ajnt Ruèras .
Glosses: take.INF in can.PRS.3SG well be.INF COMP REFL.change.IMPF.3SG DEF.M.SG rock COMP _ and say.INF say.PRS.3SG DEF.F.SG _ DEF.F.SG legend say.PRS.3SG COMP COP.IMPF.SBJV.3PL so_in COMP 3PL hear.IMPF.SBJV.3PL SUBORD EXPL beat.IMPF.SBJV.3SG of noon.M.SG in PN
Translation: As for mining, it could well be that the rock changed, that …, the legend says that they were so deep in the cave that they heard the clock strike noon in Rueras.
Language: Unknown language (English translation)
Transcription: Quaj è da dubitá , quaj è mataj scù quaj tga … i dat aun bjè da quèlas détgas .
Glosses: DEM.UNM COP.PRS.3SG COMP doubt.INF DEM.UNM COP.PRS.3SG probably like DEM.UNM REL _ EXPL EXIST.PRS.3SG still many of DEM.F.PL legend.PL
Translation: This, one has to doubt, this is probably like what … there still are many such legends.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Lèdṣ vèva lu dau zatgéj étg dad úndṣchar ajn a faschas a la tata ò lu aun détg da mé:
Glosses: DEM.M.SG have.IMPF.3SG then give.PTCP.UNM some ointment.M.SG ATTR oil.INF in and bandage.F.PL and DEF.F.SG grandmother have.PRS.3SG then still say.PTCP.UNM DAT 1SG
Translation: He had given [him] some ointment to rub in and bandages, and then my grandmother said to me:
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: «Té mira lu tg’ al tat fétschi lu mintga dé , prèndi gjù quaj a ṣchubrègi a fétschi sé da néjf .»
Glosses: 2SG look.IMP.2SG then COMP DEF.M.SG grandfather do.PRS.SBJV.3SG then every.M.SG day take.PRS.SBJV.3SG down DEM.UNM and clean.PRS.SBJV.3SG and do.PRS.SBJV.3SG up of new.ADJ.UNM
Translation: And you, make sure that your grandfather does it every day, that he takes them off, that he cleans them and puts them on again.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: «Gè gè gè quaj vi ju schòn … mirá tga végni fatg .»
Glosses: yes yes yes DEM.UNM want.PRS.1SG 1SG of_course _ make_sure.INF COMP PASS.AUX.PRS.SBJV.3SG do.PTCP.UNM
Translation: Yes of course, I will make sure that'll be done.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A … grat par finí quèla istòrja , qu’ è lu ju … quèluísa , ju ṣchèva mintgataun dal tat:
Glosses: and _ just SUBORD end.INF DEM.F.SG story DEM.UNM be.PRS.3SG then go.PTCP.UNM _ so 1SG say.IMPF.1SG sometimes DAT grandfather.M.SG
Translation: And … in order to conclude this story, it went in the following way: I said from time to time to my grandfather:
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland ( translation)
Transcription: «Té … Vajs fatg èl ?»
Glosses: 2SG _ have.PRS.2SG.POL do.PTCP.UNM 3SG.M
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Lu ṣchèv’ inṣ aun Vuṣ da … ah , da tat a tata vau adina détg Vuṣ , ábar dals , méjs gjaniturs … vajn nuṣ ùssa bégja détg Vus , ábar i èra bjèrs tga … òn détg tòcan , gè práctiṣch adina Vus dals gjaniturs .
Glosses: then say.IMPF.3SG GNR still 2PL DAT _ eh DAT grandfather.M.SG and grandmother.F.SG have.PRS.1SG.1SG always say.PTCP.UNM 2PL.POL but DAT.DEF.M.PL POSS.1SG.M.PL parent.PL _ have.PRS.1PL 1PL now NEG say.PTCP.UNM 2PL.POL but EXPL EXIST.IMPF.3SG many.M.PL REL _ have.PRS.3PL say.PTCP.UNM until yes practically always 2PL DAT.DEF.M.PL parent.PL
Translation: At that time, one used to say Vus to … eh, to my grandfather and my grandmother I have always said Vus, but to the, my parents … we never said Vus, but there were many who have said until, well practically always Vus to their parents.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: [Lu] vòu détg: «Vuṣ vèssas lu aun da fá quèls bògns né mirá da la plaja .»
Glosses: then have.PRS.1SG.1SG say.PTCP.UNM 2PL.POL have.COND.2PL then still to do.INF DEM.M.PL bath.PL or look_after.INF of DEF.F.SG wound
Translation: [Then] I said: "You should still take a bath or look after the wound."
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: «Gè gè quaj è schòn bian .»
Glosses: yes yes DEM.UNM COP.PRS.3SG all_right good.UNM
Translation: Yes, sure, that’s OK.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Scha vèva `l fatg ṣchùber nuét .
Glosses: but have.IMPF.3SG 3SG.M do.PTCP.UNM clean.ADJ.UNM nothing
Translation: But he hadn’t done anything at all.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Quèla fascha èra satratg’ anzjaman , a vidajn ála pjal , carschid’ ajn ála pjal api ò `l stju í ò tial dòctar .
Glosses: DEM.F.SG bandage be.IMPF.3SG REFL.contract.IMPF.3SG together and into to.DEF.F.SG skin grow.PTCP.F.SG in in.DEF.F.SG skin and have.PRS.3SG 3SG.M must.PTCP.UNM go.INF out to.DEF.M.SG doctor
Translation: That bandage had contracted, and into the skin, grown into the skin and then he had to go to the doctor.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ajnta Pardadṣch vèvan nus circa déjsch , èba déjsch quéndisch tgauṣ grònṣ api vèvan nus tgauraṣ a pòrs .
Glosses: up_in PN have.IMPF.1PL 1PL about ten precisely ten fifteen head.M.PL big.PL and have.IMPF.1PL 1PL goat.F.PL and pig.M.PL
Translation: Up in Pardatsch we had about ten, as already mentioned ten or fifteen large farm animals, and we had [also] goats and pigs.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A lu mia lavur èra … èra bitga atgnamajn da fá bjè , a quaj tg’ èra da parvaj aun djantarájn fagèv’ al tat , api vèvanṣ da partgirá als tiars , mav’ ins lò sédòr ál sit , grat cò nùca quèla rùsna tgu a raquintau .
Glosses: and then POSS.1SG.F.SG work COP.IMPF.3SG _ COP.IMPF.3SG NEG actually ATTR do.INF much and DEM.UNM REL be.IMPF.3SG to feed.INF still in_between do.IMPF.3SG DEF.M.SG grandfather, and have.IMPF.1PL.1PL to mind.INF DEF.M.PL animal.PL go.IMPF.3SG GNR there up_out in.DEF.M.SG south just there by DEM.F.SG hole REL.1SG have.PRS.1SG tell.PTCP.UNM
Translation: And my work was, was … not exactly to do a lot, and what still had to be fed in between, my grandfather would do, and we also had to mind the animals; we would then go up to the south, just by that cave I have mentioned.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Lò èr’ inṣ bjè culs tiars , a … la sèra vagní gjùdòra cun èls , a lu al tat , lèz pinava tiar la tschajna , gljèz èra magari è léjgar tgé cuṣchinadaṣ èl [fagèva], èl cuṣchinava bitga mal , ábar ah mintgataun fagèva `l schòn détgs , détgas pistracas .
Glosses: there COP.IMPF.3SG GNR a_lot with.DEF.M.PL animal.PL and _ DEF.F.SG evening come.PTCP.M.PL down_out with 3PL.M and then DEF.M.SG grandfather DEM.M.SG prepare.IMPF.3SG by DEF.F.SG dinner DEM.UNM COP.IMPF.3SG sometimes also funny.ADJ.UNM what cook.PTCP.F.PL 3SG.M [make.IMPF.3SG] 3SG.M cook.IMPF.3SG NEG bad but ah sometimes make.IMPF 3SG.M really real.M.PL real.F.PL mixture.PL
Translation: There we were often with the animals, and … in the evening we would come back with them, and then my grandfather, he would prepare dinner, it was sometimes also funny [to see] what he [cooked], he didn’t cook badly, but ah from time to time he would prepare terrible mixtures.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Quaj sch’ i dèva rèsts , scha vagnévi lu magari rimnau quaj dus trajs diṣ api méz tùt ajn ina … tùt anzjaman .
Glosses: well if EXPL EXIST.IMPF.3SG leftovers.M.PL then PASS.AUX.IMPF.3SG.EXPL then sometimes collect.PTCP.UNM DEM.UNM two.M.PL three day.PL and put.PTCP.UNM all in INDEF.F.SG _ all together
Translation: Well, when there were leftovers, they would sometimes be collected for two or three days and then put all together in a … all together.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A sjantar tschajnas , gljèz , quaj èra schòn è aun léjgar .
Glosses: and after dinner.F.PL DEM.UNM DEM.UNM COP.IMPF.3SG really also still funny.ADJ.UNM
Translation: And after dinner, well, this was also funny.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Sjantar tschajna mav’ inṣ ajn , quaj èr’ èr , èls èran rèligjúṣ , èra quaj nùndétg .
Glosses: after dinner.F.SG go.IMPF.3SG GNR in DEM.UNM COP.IMPF.3SG also 3PL.M COP.IMPF.3PL religious.M.PL COP.IMPF.3SG DEM.UNM indescribable.ADJ.UNM
Translation: After dinner we would go in, this was also, they were religious, this was indescribable.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Vagnévi ju ajn ajn nuégl , parquaj tga … l’ antschata da la parmavèra stuèv’ ins schè ajn als tiarṣ ajn nuégl , a lu máv’ inṣ ajn api ṣchèva `l:
Glosses: come.IMPF.3SG.EXPL go.PTCP.UNM in in barn because SUBORD _ DEF.F.SG beginning of DEF.F.SG spring must.IMPF.3SG GNR let.INF in DEF.M.PL animal.PL in barn.M.SG and then go.IMPF.3SG GNR in and say.IMPF.3SG 3SG.M
Translation: When they entered the barn, because … at the beginning of spring one had to let the animals into the barn, and then one would enter and then he would say:
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: «Sò , ùsa ṣchajn nuṣ impau patarnòṣ .» ad èl samatév’ adina giùdajn .
Glosses: OK now say.PRS.1PL 1PL a_bit Lord’s_prayer.M.PL and 3SG.M REFL.put.IMPF.3SG always down_in
Translation: «OK, now we will say some Lord’s prayer» and he would always sit down in [a manger].
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Suschéa sasév’ ajn ajn purṣèpan , a … èl dad ina vart ad ju da tschèla vart , a quaj ṣchèva `l trajs quátar patarnòṣ a vònzaj èri «Sòntga Maria Mùma da Dju» api èra `l navèn .
Glosses: exactly_so sit.IMPF.3SG in in manger and _ 3SG.M of INDEF.F.SG side and 1SG of DEM.F.SG side and DEM.UNM say.IMPF.3SG 3SG.M three four Lord’s_prayer.M.PL and later COP.IMPF.3SG.EXPL Holy Mary Mother of God and COP.IMPF.3SG 3SG.M away
Translation: So he would sit in the manger, and … he on the one side and I on the other side, and so he would say three or four Lord’s prayers and a bit later «Holy Mary Mother of God», and then he was gone.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Sadurmantav’ ajn . A lu dumagnav’ ju bigja nònavaun èl .
Glosses: REFL.fall_asleep.IMPF.3SG in and then induce.IMPF.1SG 1SG NEG awake 3SG.M
Translation: He would fall asleep. And then I wasn't able to wake him up.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ṣùtajn èri la tégja nùca `l caṣchav' èra , daspèras quèls dus nuégls api stuèv' inṣ í ò ad í sé sén clavau , a lò èri ajn ina stiva sc’ ins ṣchèva , ajn quèls majṣès ṣchèv’ ins la stiva nùc’ ins durméva .
Glosses: under_in COP.IMPF.3SG.EXPL DEF.F.SG alpine_hut REL 3SG.M make_cheese.IMPF.3SG also next DEM.M.PL two.M cow_barn.PL and must.IMPF.3SG GNR go.INF out and go.INF up upon hay_barn.M.SG and there COP.IMPF.3SG.EXPL in DEF.F.SG living_room as GNR say.IMPF.3SG in DEM.M.PL assembly_of_houses.PL say.IMPF.3SG GNR DEF.F.SG living_room REL.LOC GNR sleep.IMPF.3SG
Translation: Below was the alpine hut where he would also make cheese, next to it those two cow barns and one must go out and up into the hay barn, and therein was the stiva, the living room, as they used to say, in those majṣés the room where one slept was called stiva.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ad ju mava lu sé lò durmí , ábar ah , bjè nòtgs staus parsuls sé lò , ha , a lò vòu schòn ah … gju inqual tèma .
Glosses: and 1SG go.IMPF.1SG then up there sleep.INF but eh many night.F.PL COP.PTCP.M.SG alone.M.SG up there ha and there have.PRS.1SG.1SG really eh _ have.PTCP.UNM some fear.F.SG
Translation: And I used to go up there to sleep, but, eh, many nights I was alone up there, ha, and there I was eh sometimes afraid.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ajn quèla végljadé̱tgna , api al pròblè̱m èra , èra , al pròblè̱m èra las sòndaṣ a dumèngjas .
Glosses: in DEM.F.SG age and DEF.M.SG problem COP.IMPF.3SG COP.IMPF.3SG DEF.M.SG problem COP.IMPF.3SG DEF.F.PL Saturday.PL and Sunday.PL
Translation: At that age, and the problem was, was, the problem was on Saturdays and Sundays.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Né al vèndardís sèra , quèls taljans , quaj èra práctisch mù taljans tga luvravan cò vid la via .
Glosses: or DEF.M.SG Friday evening.F.SG DEM.M.PL Italian.PL DEM.UNM COP.IMPF.3SG practically only Italian.M.PL REL work.IMPF.3PL here at DEF.F.SG road
Translation: Or Friday evening, these Italians, there were practically only Italians who worked on the road.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Sònda-dumèngja vagnévan quèls ò cò a fagjèvan fjastunas .
Glosses: Saturday-Sunday come.IMPF.3PL DEM.M.PL out here and do.IMPF.3PL party.AUGM.F.PL
Translation: On weekends they would come here and have big parties.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A magari tga pudèvan lu bigja … vidajn a … vajn gju in pèr jèdas quèls tga vagnévan , u tga vagnévan ajn ál clavau a durmévan , ábar è ál légj dal tat … sùnd ju è schòn sadastadaus tg' i èr' ajn … in né dus taljánars tga durmévan .
Glosses: and sometimes SUBORD can.IMPF.3PL then NEG _ in and _ have.PRS.1SG have.PTCP.UNM INDEF.M.SG pair time.F.PL DEM.M.PL REL come.IMPF.3PL or REL come.IMPF.3PL in in.DEF.M.SG barn and sleep.IMPF.3PL but also in.DEF.M.SG bed of.DEF.M.SG grandfather _ be.PRS.1SG 1SG also already REFL.wake_up.PTCP.M.SG REL EXPL COP.IMPF.3SG in _ one.M.SG or two.M.PL Italian.PL REL sleep.IMPF.3PL
Translation: Now sometimes they couldn’t manage … to come … into [the stiva and sleep on hay] and … we sometimes had those who came or who came into the barn and slept [there], but I happened to wake up there when one or two Italians were sleeping [in my grandfather’s bed].
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Òh , lu schòn tumju in pau mintgataun .
Glosses: oh then really be_afraid.PTCP.UNM INDEF.M.SG little sometimes
Translation: Oh, [I was] really afraid sometimes.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Pr̩quaj tga quaj c’ ins … vèva bigja grad da partgirá tiars sch’ èr’ inṣ antir dé cun quèls , qu' èra è intarassant da mirá c’ i luvravan , c' i bagagjavan gjù .
Glosses: because SUBORD DEM.UNM when GNR _ have.IMPF.3SG NEG just to mind.INF animal.M.PL then COP.IMPF.3SG GNR whole.M.SG day with DEM.M.PL DEM.UNM COP.IMPF.3SG also interesting.ADJ.UNM MOD look.INF when 3PL work.IMPF.3PL when 3PL build.IMPF.3SG down
Translation: Because when we … didn’t just have to mind the animals, we were with them [the Italian workers] the whole day; it was also interesting to watch [them] when they were working, when they would dismantle [something].
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ò lò vòu fòrza schòn è survagnú in téc quajda d' í par crapa , tgu a vju difarènts lògans tg’ i vèvan sitau gjù ad èra … vagnú ò cristalaṣ ètcè̱tara , tga quaj è fòrza schòn stau in téc al … mòtif tgu a antschiat dad í par crapa .
Glosses: out there have.PRS.1SG.1SG maybe really also get.PTCP.UNM INDEF.M.SG bit desire.F.SG ATTR go.INF for stone.COLL REL.1SG have.PRS.1SG see.PTCP.UNM different.M.PL place.PL REL 3PL have.IMPF.3PL blast.PTCP.UNM down and be.IMPF.3SG _ come.PTCP.UNM out crystal.F.PL et_cetera COMP DEM.UNM be.PRS.3SG maybe really COP.PTCP.UNM INDEF.M.SG bit DEF.M.SG _ reason REL.1SG have.PRS.1SG begin.PTCP.UNM COMP go.INF for stone.COLL
Translation: Out there I might have started enjoying looking for stones a bit, when I saw different places where they had blasted [the rocks], and crystals and so forth … had come out, so maybe this has been a bit the reason why I began to go for stones.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Schabi tga lu , cun siṣ òns capév’ ins hald aun mèmja pauc a vèva bigja la … fòrsa da fá zatgéj .
Glosses: although SUBORD then with six year.M.PL understand.IMPF.3SG GNR just still too little and have.IMPF.3SG NEG DEF.F.SG _ strength ATTR do.INF something
Translation: Although then, at the age of six, one would understand too little and wouldn’t have the … strength to do something.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Gè , ah … cèrtas tgaussas al tat , lèz al dé òra mava lu bjè par lèna a mava lu vidòra in tòc a pinava ògna , a vagnéva vidajn … tg’ èl mava a rimnava , gljèz èra aun léjgar cu ’l scarpava gjù urticlas .
Glosses: yes eh _ certain.F.PL thing.PL DEF.M.SG grandfather DEM.M.SG DEF.M.SG day out go.IMPF.3SG then often for wood.COLL and go.IMPF.3SG then over_out DEF.M.SG piece and prepare.IMPF.3SG alder.COLL and come.IMPF.3SG over_in _ REL 3SG.M go.IMPF.3SG and collect.IMPF.3SG DEM.UNM COP.IMPF.3SG really funny.ADJ.UNM when 3SG.M pull_off.IMPF.3SG down nettle.F.PL
Translation: Yes, ah, certain things my grandfather, he would often look for wood the whole day, and he would then go down a little bit and log alder, and when he was coming up … when he would go and collect it, that was really funny when he pulled off nettles.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Quaj duvrava `l par dá dis pòrs , trúfals ansjaman par dá áls pòrs .
Glosses: DEM.UNM use.IMPF.3SG 3SG.M SUBORD give.INF DEF.DAT.PL pig.M.PL potato.M.PL together SUBORD give.INF DAT.DEF.M.PL pig.PL
Translation: This he used to give the pigs, potatoes together [with nettles] to give the pigs.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ah , quaj scarpava `l adina cul maun , cul maun sènza [vòns].
Glosses: ah DEM.UNM pull_off.IMPF.3SG 3SG.M always with.DEF.M.SG hand with.DEF.M.SG hand without [glove.M.PL]
Translation: Ah, and the nettles, he would always pull them down with the hand, with the hand without [gloves].
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ju tartgava quaj è bitga pussajval .
Glosses: 1SG think.IMPF.1SG DEM.UNM COP.PRS.3SG NEG possible.ADJ.UNM
Translation: I thought that this was not possible.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ad è zatgéj … léjgar èr’ èra cu 'l fagèva fjuc .
Glosses: and also something _ funny.ADJ.UNM COP.IMPF.3SG also when 3SG.M make.IMPF.3SG fire.M.SG
Translation: And something … funny was also when he made fire.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Èl vèv’ adina … lèna vèva `l dètg avùnda , ábar ajn gé̱néral vagnévi bitga fatg òra .
Glosses: 3SG.M have.IMPF.3SG always _ wood.COLL have.IMPF.3SG 3SG.M much enough but in general PASS.AUX.IMPF.3SG.EXPL NEG make.PTCP.UNM out
Translation: He had always … wood, he had enough, but it was generally not split.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Quaj èra magari da quèls pléjdars dad in mèter dus , ùs ussusché .
Glosses: DEM.UNM COP.IMPF.3SG sometimes of DEM.M.PL block.PL of one.M.SG metre two.M.Pl now exactly_so
Translation: These were sometimes such blocks of one or two metres or so.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Quaj catschava `l ajn , qu’ èr’ in plantschju da … da taratsch naturálmajn .
Glosses: DEM.UNM throw.IMPF.3SG 3SG.M in DEM.UNM COP.IMPF.3SG INDEF.M.SG floor of _ of soil.M.SG natural.ADV
Translation: This he would throw into [the fire], this was a floor of … of soil, of course.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Quaj catschava `l vidajn ála fuajna api mù catschava sjantar mintg’ jèda .
Glosses: DEM.UNM throw.IMPF.3SG 3SG.M into in.DEF.F.SG fireplace and only throw.IMPF.3SG after every.F.SG time
Translation: That is what he used to throw into the fireplace and he used to throw in more every time.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Álṣò i èra schòn in in spazjal .
Glosses: well EXPL COP.IMPF.3SG really INDEF.M.SG INDEF.M.SG special.ADJ.UNM
Translation: Well, he really was a special person.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A bjè gljut tumévan è mju tat , pr̩quaj tga … èl raṣdava pauc a magari smanatschava `l ussusché tg’ al– grat als buéts tg’ èl … cu `l savèva tg’ i vèvan fatg ina lumparia sche lu mussava `l lu magari al pùgn a lura fugévani .
Glosses: and many people.F.SG be.afraid.IMPF.3PL also POSS.1SG.M.SG grandfather because SUBORD _ 3SG.M speak.IMPF.3SG little and sometimes threaten.IMPF.3SG 3SG.M exactly_so COMP DEF.M.SG especially DEF.M.PL boy.PL REL 3SG.M _ when 3SG.M know.IMPF.3SG COMP 3PL have.IMPF.3PL make.PTCP.UNM INDEF.F.SG childish_prank CORR then show.IMPF.3SG 3SG then sometimes DEF.M.SG fist and then flee.IMPF.3PL.3PL
Translation: And many people were afraid of my grandfather, because … he didn’t speak much and sometimes he would threaten in such a way that the – especially the boys he… when he knew that they had played a childish prank, he then would show them his fist and they would run away.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A… in’ autra tgaussa … tg' è è stau intarassanta , èra , quaj èra … ajgl unviarn api vèvani ah … mávani culs tiars ajnta Nacla , quaj è … dadajns … Surajn , fòrza végn minutas vidajn .
Glosses: and INDEF.F.SG other.F.SG thing _ REL be.PRS.3SG also COP.PTCP.UNM interesting.F.SG COP.IMPF.3SG DEM.UNM COP.IMPF.3SG _ in.DEF.M.SG winter and have.IMPF.3PL.3PL eh _ go.IMPF.3PL.3PL with.DEF.M.PL animal.PL up PN DEM.UNM COP.PRS.3SG _ more_back _ PN maybe twenty minute.F.PL into
Translation: And … another thing … that was interesting was, this was during winter and they had ah … they used to go with the animals up to Nacla, this is … farther behind … Surrein, maybe twenty minutes farther behind.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ad ju sa la tata vèva détg:
Glosses: and 1SG know.PRS.1SG DEF.F.SG grandmother have.IMPF.3SG say.PTCP.UNM
Translation: And I know [that] my grandmother had said:
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: «Té nò lu vidòr ùssa . Lò , quèsta sèra dòrma lu bigja ajn lò .»
Glosses: 2SG come.IMP.2SG then down now there DEM.F.SG evening sleep.IMP.2SG then NEG in there
Translation: Come down here now. Don’t sleep up there this evening.»
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Al bjè durméva `l ajn lò , álṣò durmju ajn nuégl .
Glosses: DEF.M.SG much sleep.IMPF.3SG 3SG.M in there well sleep.PTCP.UNM in barn
Translation: He slept mostly up there, well, slept in the barn.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Basta , èl [è] bigja vagnús vidòr , glj’ autar dé ṣè `l … in dalṣ aucs … juṣ vidajn .
Glosses: enough 3SG.M [be.PRS.3SG] NEG come.PTCP.M.SG down DEF.M.SG other.M.SG day be.PRS.3SG 3SG.M _ one.M.SG of.DEF.M.PL uncle.PL _ go.PTCP.M.SG up
Translation: OK. He didn’t come down, the other day one of my uncles went up.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Sch’ èri vagnú gjù la lavina , vèva príu ṣuròra dal , dal clavau , vèva príu ṣuròra tùt , èra mù al … ál … nuégl ṣùtajn .
Glosses: so be.IMPF.3SG.EXPL come.PTCP.UNM down DEF.F.SG avalanche have.IMPF.3SG take.PTCP.UNM above_out of.DEF.M.SG of.DEF.M.SG barn have.IMPF.3SG take.PTCP.UNM above_out everything COP.IMPF.3SG only DEF.M.SG _ in.DEF.M.SG _ barn under_in
Translation: So the avalanche came down, swept away above of the, of the barn, had swept away everything from above, only … the, in the barn underneath.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A par part vèvi aun príu dals nuégls , vévi príu , davauntíar è príu navèn .
Glosses: and for part have.IMPF.3SG.EXPL moreover take.PTCP.UNM from.DEF.M.PL barn.PL have.IMPF.3SG.EXPL take.PTCP.UNM at_front also take.PTCP.UNM away
Translation: And [the avalanche] had also partially swept away of the barns, had swept away, also swept away at the front.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Duaṣ vacas èran gjùṣùt aun adina … pandí a la cadajna cul’ … cul’ ajssa nùca la cadajn' èra , al tat udju ṣchùbar nuét .
Glosses: two.F.PL cow.PL COP.IMPF.3PL down_under still always _ hang.PTCP.M.PL at DEF.F.SG chain with.DEF.F.SG _ with.DEF.F.SG plank REL.LOC DEF.F.SG chain COP.IMPF.3SG DEF.M.SG grandfather hear.PTCP.UNM clean.ADJ.UNM nothing
Translation: Two cows were still … hanging from the chain with the … with the plank where the chain was, and my grandfather hadn’t heard anything at all.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A … gè quaj è ussusché in pèr da quèlas raminiscènzas tgu a gju cul tat .
Glosses: and _ yes DEM.UNM COP.PRS.3SG exactly_so INDEF.M.SG pair of DEM.F.PL memory.PL REL.1SG have.PRS.1SG have.PTCP.UNM with.DEF.M.SG grandfather
Translation: And … yes, so these are some of the memories I have had with my grandfather.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ju a maj gju pròblè̱m – èl vès maj savilau cun mè né anzatgéj , ju a adina gju fétg ugèn al tat .
Glosses: 1SG have.PRS.1SG never have.PTCP.UNM problem.M.SG _ 3SG.M have.COND.3SG never REFL.get_angry.PTCP.UNM with 1SG or something 1SG have.PRS.1SG always have.PTCP.UNM very with_pleasure DEF.M.SG grandfather
Translation: I have never had a problem – he would never have got angry at me or something like that, I have always been very fond of my grandfather.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A quaj tga `l vèva pia sias flajvlèzas , quaj sùnd ju vagnús séssúra pér … plé tart .
Glosses: and DEM.UNM REL 3SG.M have.IMPF.3SG therefore POSS.3PL.F.PL weakness.PL DEM.UNM be.PRS.1SG 1SG come.PTCP.M.SG upon only _ more late
Translation: And that he had … his weaknesses, this I only discovered … later.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A lu ṣaj … èl è lu saravagnús dètg stupèn , èl ò lu luvrau anzjaman .
Glosses: and then be.PRS.3SG _ 3SG.M be.PRS.3SG then REFL.recover.PTCP.M.SG fairly excellent.ADJ.UNM 3SG.M have.PRS.3SG then work.PTCP.UNM together
Translation: And then, he recovered perfectly well, he then worked together [with one of his sons].
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: In auc … èra lu staus cun èl a fatg al pur .
Glosses: INDEF.M.SG uncle _ be.PRS.3SG then COP.PTCP.M.SG with 3SG.M and make.PTCP.UNM DEF.M.SG farmer
Translation: Then one of my uncles … stayed with him and worked as a farmer.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A lèz fijèva al al pur , aun adin’ in pin purèssar , lèz mava lu aun a , ad uáut , piná lèna .
Glosses: and DEM.M.SG make.IMPF.3SG DEF.M.SG DEF.M.SG farmer still always INDEF.M.SG small.M.SG farm DEM.M.SG go.IMPF.3SG then moreover to to forest.M.SG prepare.INF wood.COLL
Translation: And he worked as a farmer, still a little farm, he would then also go to, to the forest [in order to] fell timber.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: A … vagnéva mè̱ndar a mè̱ndar a dumagnavan bigj' èl ál , ál spital lèva `l bitg í né tiar miadis .
Glosses: and _ become.IMPF.3SG worse and worse and induce.IMPF.3PL NEG 3SG.M to.DEF.M.SG to.DEF.M.SG hospital want.IMPF.3SG 3SG.M NEG go.INF or to doctor.M.PL
Translation: And … it became worse and worse and they couldn’t induce [him] to go to the, to the hospital he didn’t want to go, nor to the doctors.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Ad ju sa in' jèda òn Cadruvi , sa ju in' jèda tg’ èl èra vagnús sé , quèl vasèva schòn ò ṣgarṣchajval .
Glosses: and 1SG know.PRS.1SG one.F.SG time down_in PN know.1SG 1SG one.F.SG time COMP 3SG.M be.IMPF.3SG come.PTCP.M.SG up DEM.M.SG look.IMPF.3SG really out terrible.ADJ.UNM
Translation: And I know once in the Cadruvi square that he had once come up [from the church], he looked terrible.
Language: Sursilvan-Oberland (English translation)
Transcription: Èl mava misarábal . A la mùma è lura , plaunsjú ṣèni vagní da fá í scha vèva `l rùt in calum .
Glosses: 3SG.M go.IMPF.3SG miserable.ADJ.UNM and DEF.F.SG mother be.PRS.3SG then slowly be.IMPF.3PL come.PTCP.M.PL COMP make.INF go.INF since have.IMPF.3SG 3SG.M break.PTCP.UNM INDEF.M.SG thigh
Translation: He was not going well. And my mother then has, they succeeded slowly in having him go [to the hospital] since he had broken a thigh.