Some Common Words and Phrases
Note that the accent mark, which denotes the place of stress, is not used in actual Mari orthography.
- По́ро ке́че/Póro kéče - Good day
- Ку́гу та́у/Kúgu táu - Thank you (very much)
- ик, кок, кум, ныл, вич/ik, kok, kum, nəl, vič - one, two, three, four, five
- куд, шым, канда́ш, инде́ш, лу/kud, šəm, kandáš, indéš, lu - six, seven, eight, nine, ten
- мут/mut - word
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Famous quotes containing the words common, words and/or phrases:
“Wilt thou have this Woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God’s ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?”
—Book Of Common Prayer, The. Solemnization of Matrimony, “Betrothal,” (1662)
“His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as a spark, a burning atom of inextinguishable thought; and many yet lie covered in the ashes of their birth and pregnant with a lightning which has yet found no conductor.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)