A man walks into a barBeing able to handle this sentence is essential of you want to translate bar jokes into your (con)lang. Apart from that, it might show how you handle verb vs satellite framing.
WakuThe most general way of expressing something similar to the English expression would be:
Ko laka o bwaru mwena. 'A man went to the bar.'
PRET go DAT bar man
Here, the general word of 'go' (or 'move' or 'travel' etc.) – laka – is used. In order to specify the way in which he enters the bar, one can use the word olo, 'to walk', 'to go by foot':
Ko olo o bwaru mwena. 'A man walked to the bar.'
PRET walk DAT bar man
The verb olo is derived from the noun olo, which means 'foot' or 'leg'. In contrast to 'pure', underived verbs like laka, verbs derived from nouns do not have plural forms:
Ko lakalaka o bwaru mwena e gorilla. – 'A man and a gorilla went into a bar.'
PRET PL.go DAT bar man and gorilla
Ko olo o bwaru mwena e gorilla. – 'A man and a gorilla walked into a bar.'
PRET walk DAY bar man and gorilla
I made up the word for 'gorilla' on the spot. I'll have to include it in my dictionary.
We have still only used the general lative/dative prepositon, o. To say specifically that our man went inside the bar (and not just went there to hang outside), we might say something like this:
Ko olo o loka o bwaru mwena. 'A man walked to the inside of a bar.'
PRET walk DAT inside DAT bar man
However, if it's understood from context that the man went to the bar in order to drink (or do something that one typically does inside a bar, rather than outside in, or on its roof, etc.), one might prefer to say just ...o bwaru ('to the/a bar'), rather than ...o loka o bwaru ('into the/a bar').
In general speech, it might be more natural to say something like this, if we are talking about an unspecified man:
Nea mwena ko olo o bwaru. – 'There's a man who walked (in)to a bar.'
be man PRET walk DAT bar
Or:
Ko nea mwena olo o bwaru. – 'There was a man who walks into a bar.'
Not that the preterite is generally used in story-telling. The Wakus despise the historical present.
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